cladistics

== English == === Etymology === From clade +‎ -istic, from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /kləˈdɪs.tɪks/ === Noun === cladistics (uncountable) (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); a method of classifying organisms based on their evolutionary relationships instead of superficial characteristics. 2001, Clare Bates Congdon, Gaphyl: A Genetic Algorithms Approach to Cladistics, Luc de Raedt, Arno Siebes (editors), Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: 5th European Conference PKDD 2001, Volume 5, Springer, LNAI 2168, page 67, This research investigates the use of genetic algorithms to solve problems from cladistics — a technique used by biologists to hypothesize the relationships between organisms. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== clade cladistic ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== phenetics phylogenetic