found: Acad. Pr. dict. sci. tech.(cladistics. Systematics. a method of classification in which phylogenetic hypotheses are the basis for classification and the recency of common ancestry is the sole criterion for grouping taxa. Evolution. a method of reconstructing phylogeny that is based on the identification of derived character states. Also, cladism, cladistic method, cladistic analysis)
found: Random House(cladism Biol. the cladistic method of classification. cladistics Biol. classification of organisms based on the branches of descendent lineages from a common ancestor)
found: McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. terms(cladism A theory of taxonomy by which organisms are grouped and ranked on the basis of the most recent phylogenetic branching point)
found: LC database, Feb. 10, 1998(cladistic analysis, cladistic methodology, cladistic theory and methodology, cladistics, phylogenetic systematics)