This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a comprehensive accou
Systematics underpins all of biology. Cladistics is a method of systematic classification that aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus re
Cladistics is the method of choice for systematic classification and comparative studies in all fields of biology. In cladistics, reconstructed genealogies are
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