cladistics
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- noun
- /kləˈdɪstɪks/
- Specialized
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cladística
- Whittaker's belief that phylogeny was only one of several equally valid criteria for classification had also been widely shared when he began writing about kingdoms, but with the rapid rise of cladistics during the 1970s, biologists increasingly rejected this view.
Examples
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Evidence is conclusively on the side of Homo-Pan cladistics, but scientists will still believe humans are most closely related to orangutans.
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Cladistics helps—it's a much more elegant and precise way of viewing things.
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I can only figure someone with great familiarity with cladistics would make a joke like that.
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Although some of Whittaker's ideas eventually fell victim to molecular systematics, cladistics
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Before the widespread acceptance of cladistics, which did not occur until the 1970s, Whittaker's views on phylogeny were held by many biologists.
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For example, Vane-Wright et al. (1991) measured biodiversity with an index of taxonomic diversity based on cladistics, which assesses the distinctness of taxa.
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Cladistics is a method of cladistics that helps biologists classify organisms based on their evolutionary relationships.
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Many researchers prefer cladistics for its ability to create branching diagrams that illustrate how species are related.
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By using cladistics, scientists can construct cladograms to visually represent the evolutionary history of different organisms.
Synonyms
A method that groups species by their common ancestors using tree diagrams
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cladistics comes from the Greek root klados, meaning 'branch', and the ending -istics, as in linguistics, meaning 'the study of'. So cladistics is the 'study of branches' of living things, which is why the method groups species by their branching family tree.