Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cladistics

1 sense of cladistics

Sense 1
cladistics, cladistic analysis -- (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)
       => taxonomy -- ((biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification)