postcladistic en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English cladistic English postcladistic From post- + cladistic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Occurring after the use of cladistics.
Morphometrics is thusemployed for the postcladistic morphological analysis of monophyletic groups (Smith, 1990) found in gene trees and for the analysis of patterns of morphological evolution.
2003, Andrea Cardini, “The Geometry of the Marmot (Rodentia: Sciuridae) Mandible: Phylogeny and Patterns of Morphological Evolution”, in Systematic Biology, volume 52, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026, page 187: