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Cladistics
method of biological systematics in evolutionary biology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cladistics is the method of classifying organisms into groups called clades.
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A clade (Greek = branch) is a group of organisms with a common ancestor and all its descendants (and nothing else). Such a clade is monophyletic.[1] The term 'clade' was coined by English biologist Julian Huxley.