What is the meaning of the term 'ultrametric'?
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'Ultrametric' means that for a distance matrix D, every triplet of taxa xi, xj, xk the three distances D(xi, xj), D(xi, xk) and D(xj, xk) have the property that either:
1. All three distances are equal, or
2. Two distances are equal and the remaining one is smaller.