cladistics
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phylogeneticscladephylogenytaxonomyevolutioncladogramsynapomorphysymplesiomorphyhomologyanalogyhomoplasymonophylyparaphylypolyphylyancestordescendantlineagespeciationdivergenceconvergencebranchingnodetaxonsister groupoutgroupingroupcharactertraitmorphologygeneticsDNAgenomesequencemutationproteinamino acidsystematicsbiologyzoologybotanypaleontologyfossilextinctionadaptationselectioninheritancegenealogytreerootapomorphyplesiomorphyautapomorphyparsimonylikelihoodalgorithmmatrixpolarityphylogenetic treecommon ancestordivergent evolutionconvergent evolution