cladistic analysis

cladistic analysis
noun
a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
Syn: ↑cladistics
Hypernyms: ↑taxonomy

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