Cladistics
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Cladistics (klados, "branch") is an approach to classification in which items are grouped together based on whether or not they have one or more shared unique characteristics that come from the group's last common ancestor and are not present in more distant ancestors. Therefore, members of the same group are thought to share a common history and are considered to be more closely related.
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See also
- Bioinformatics
- Biomathematics
- Coalescent theory
- Common descent
- Computational phylogenetics
- Dendrogram
- Language family
- Last common ancestor
- Maximum parsimony
- Molecular phylogenetics
- Patrocladogram
- Phylogenetic comparative methods
- Phylogenetic network
- Phylogenetic nomenclature
- Phylogenetics
- Phylogenetics software
- Phylogenomics
- Phylogeography
- Scientific classification
- Stratocladistics
- Systematics
- Three-taxon analysis
- Tree model
- Tree structure
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