Cladogenesis
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Cladogenesis is an evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches is a "clade"; an evolutionary mechanism and a process of adaptive evolution that leads to the development of a greater variety of organisms.
Cladogenesis is often contrasted with the process entitled "Anagenesis", where gradual changes lead to the development of a new species with the replacement of the old species (i.e: there is no "Splitting" of the Phylogenetic tree.).
| Basic topics in evolutionary biology | (edit) |
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| 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 |