A cladogram is a branching diagram used to depict phylogeny, the pattern of evolutionary relationships between taxa. A cladogram provides information about recency of common ancestry, but does not provide direct information about the time during which the diversification of taxa may have taken place, or about any ancestor–descendant relationships between any of the taxa of interest. Rather, taxa in a cladogram are said to be closely related to each other when they are descended from a recent common ancestor, but are distantly related to each other when they are descended from a distant common ancestor.