Question

A simple, cladistically defensible biological classification system of contemporary human populations would include the following 3 groups:

Select one:

a. African, European, Asian

b. African, European, Other

c. African L1, African L2, all L3

d. H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, H. erectus

e. Cladistics does not apply below the level of the species

Answer 1

Option E

Reason -

Cladistics method of classification in general is the division of organism into groups of species called clades.

The differentiation below species level is not dealt in Cladistics method of classification instead it comprises of ancestral organism and all its evolutionary descendants that share evolutionary lineage

In case of human, the Cladistics method of classification will consists of apes, chimpanzees and human and many other linked species.