cladogenesis

English

Etymology

From clado- +‎ -genesis.

Noun

cladogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural cladogeneses)

  1. (genetics) An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade.
    • 2025 September 27, Julia Jacobo, “Million-year-old skull could rewrite timeline of human origin, researchers say”, in ABC News‎[1]:
      Yunxian 2 is important for understanding the cladogenesis -- an evolutionary process in which one species splits into two or more distinct species -- of early humans, the scientists said.

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