cladogenesis

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 296 words | Copyright

cladogenesis In cladistics, the derivation of new taxa that occurs through the branching of ancestral lineages, each such split forming two (possibly more) equal sister taxa that are often considered taxonomically separate from the ancestral taxon, though this is no longer considered obligatory.

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