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How prototypal inheritance is practically different from classical inheritance?

Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Encapsulation are the three most distinct, important features of OOP, and from them, inheritance has a high usage statistics these days. I'm learning JavaScript, and ...
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Name for the process of prototype evolution

I'm looking for a commonly used name for the process of developing a child object from a parent object, either through clone-and-modify techniques or through the prototypal inheritance mechanisms ...