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Modern classification, the field of cladistics, while still using morphological and genetic traits to establish phylogenetic trees, is based on the assumption of common descent: a clade (classically taxon) is defined as a particular form and all its descendants rather than an exclusive group in the nested hierarchies of Biology.

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