cladistic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Take, for instance, cladistic analysis, which identifies discrete, heritable anatomical features that can be compared between animals and that provide a statistical basis for testing hypotheses about the relationships of animals to one another.
From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2020
Today, the method is so well established that the museum’s dinosaur halls are organized according to evolutionary ties, and the cladistic trees are inlaid in the floor.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2020
Modern evolutionary classification uses cladistic analysis to compare selected traits to determine the order in which organisms branched off from their common ancestors.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Because all genes mutate over time, shared genes contain differences that can be treated as derived characters in cladistic analysis.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
O’Connor .’s lengthy review of Mesozoic bird taxa is thorough and extremely well illustrated; the chapter is further useful in providing a large cladistic analysis.
From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2012
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