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  Cladistics and its significance  In the taxonomy system known as cladistics, species are grouped together into clades (groups) according to shared ancestry and collective traits. Using cladistics, species can be categorized and their evolutionary relationships can be determined. Cladistics uses anatomical, molecular, and genetic amount of organisms in its technique. A cladogram, which consists of diagrams putting forth phylogenetic relationship hypotheses, is created using data from cladistic analysis. When reconstructing artifact lineages, cladistics—a technique that builds nested series of taxa based on homologous features shared solely by two or more taxa and their immediate common ancestor—offers a way to account for heritable continuity as opposed to merely historical continuity. Cladistically produced trees are better than undifferentiated homologous characters and phenetic trees, which use characters without considering whether they are homologous or similar. However,...