cladogenesis

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noun

An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade

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Synonyms

cocladogenesis cladism cladist cladification cladistics clanistics anacladogenesis cladogram paraclade clade stratocladistics clastogenesis phylogrouping clonogenics patrocladogram patrocladistics

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