Cladistics
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cladistics (noun,no singular) – a taxonomic method to group taxa into discrete sets assuming that common ancestry can thus be inferred and a phylogeny may be established to reflect the evolution of a group of organisms; different cladistic methods use various statistical criteria to achieve this goal.
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