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What is cladistics?

What is cladistics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (systematics) An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).
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Possibly with the assistance of molecular biology and cladistics we may elucidate these problems of classification.
Today, cladistics is the method of choice for classifying life because it recognizes and employs evolutionary theory.
In botanical studies shape analysis is widely used in taxonomy and cladistics.
He was an early champion of cladistics in paleontology, which at the time was a new approach to studying questions in that subject.
Newer tools, such as scanning electron microscopy, molecular methods, and cladistics, remain little-tried for spiders, but they have changed traditional classification schemes.
Just like phenetic systematics, cladistics takes advantage of the availability of computer software to analyze large data sets.

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