Cladistics replaces scala naturae

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Comparative Anatomy subtree

Hennig 1950 cladistic method replaces Aristotelian scala-naturae chain-of-being with branching phylogeny; synapomorphies (shared-derived) define clades, not symplesiomorphies.

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