Cladogenesis
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Cladogenesis is an evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a "clade", an evolutionary mechanism and a process of adaptive evolution that leads to the development of a greater variety of sister organisms.
Cladogenesis is often contrasted with anagenesis, where gradual changes in an ancestral species lead to its eventual "replacement" by a novel form (i.e, there is no "splitting" of the phylogenetic tree.).
| Basic topics in evolutionary biology | (edit) |
|---|---|
| Processes of evolution: evidence - macroevolution - microevolution - speciation | |
| Mechanisms: selection - genetic drift - gene flow - mutation - phenotypic plasticity | |
| Modes: anagenesis - catagenesis - cladogenesis | |
| History: History of evolutionary thought - Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species - modern evolutionary synthesis | |
| Subfields: population genetics - ecological genetics - human evolution - molecular evolution - phylogenetics - systematics - evo-devo | |
| List of evolutionary biology topics | Timeline of evolution | Timeline of human evolution |
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