Cladistics, the estimation of the relative recency of common ancestry, and thus of the branching pattern of phyletic lines, is a challenge of growing interest among plant systematists. Discussed in depth are two approaches to this challenge: minimizing the amount of evolution; and maximizing the number of suppor-ting
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George F. Estabrook (1978) studied this question.