cladistics

cladistics
[kləˈdɪstɪks]
plural noun
  1. [treated as sing.](Biology)a method of classification of animals and plants that aims to identify and take account of only those shared characteristics which can be deduced to have originated in the common ancestor of a group of species during evolution, not those arising by convergence
    (生)分枝系统学,支序分类学
派生
cladism
[ˈkladɪz(ə)m]
noun
cladistic
adjective
语源
  1. 1960s: from clade + -ist + -ics
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