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relating to or based on the principles of cladistics, a method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common
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The cladistic analysis revealed the evolutionary relationships among the different species.
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We used cladistic methods to figure out how the animals are related.
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The cladistic stuff helped us see which creatures are like cousins.
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Just like a cladistic tree, the connections between the species branched out in unexpected ways.