A group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor, according to the principles of cladistics.
the great ape and human clade
Example sentencesExamples
- Species in the two primary clades in the genus tend to be found in different parts of North America.
- The monilophytes refers to the monophyletic clade of horsetails and ferns.
- Was survival of the various clades through various biotic crises just a matter of luck?
- The same mode of increase has been adopted independently in phylogenetically distinct clades.
- Fossils are often not ancestors of extant taxa, but instead may be extinct sister groups to modern taxa or clades.