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cladistics  

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  • Cladistics is a method of reconstructing phylogeny without necessary recourse to either fossils or molecular distances. It is required to trace the evolutionary changes within a group of organisms (a series of taxa), and the following stages are followed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Cladistics]

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