[stormer]

Are you not familiar with cladistics?

[PeterPrinciple]

Are you not familiar with cladistics?

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a method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common. It is assumed that the higher the proportion of characteristics that two organisms share, the more recently they diverged from a common ancestor.

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The one based on an assumption, in other words a “big leap of faith?”

[ifinnegan]

I have made many a cladogram.

Do you know how to read?

Sorry for the sarcasm, it’s tiresome getting odd answers to a simple question asked about the study and associated theory in question.

Have you ever taken a biology class at a university?