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Cladistics

Cladistics is taking characteristics (anatomical, physiological or genetic) that are shared by organisms and then putting a hypothesis of how they came to occur in a cladogram

Cladistics makes 3 assumptions:

 

1. Change in characteristics occurs in lineages over time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Any group of organisms is related by descent from a common ancestor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. There is a bifurcating branching pattern in lineage splitting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLW ppt

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