Meaning
2 sensesA group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
Klade
кладаklada
a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
Examples
3 sentencesPeople with a given skin color do not form a genetic clade.
Hominins are the most LGBT clade: they comprise Homo and Pan.
"Are reptiles a clade?" "Not unless you count birds and mammals as reptiles."
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British eLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt.
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