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Noun: cladistics  klu'dis-tiks
  1. A taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
    "Cladistics reveals evolutionary relationships between organisms";
    - cladistic analysis

Type of: taxonomy

Encyclopedia: Cladistics