cladistics
cla·dis·tics
noun
1.
a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
Origin
From clade + -istic, from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch”).
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