cladistics

How To Use cladistics In A Sentence

• In cladistics, the clade is a hypothetical construct based on experimental data. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
• The basic idea behind cladistics is that members of a group share a common evolutionary history, and are "closely related," more so to members of the same group than to other organisms. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
• Just like phenetic systematics, cladistics takes advantage of the availability of computer software to analyze large data sets.
• So cladistics is a reductive method, stripping a defined set of taxa, that have for sure one trait in common, of all distinguishing, autapomorphic traits to arrive at sets of plesiomorphic traits that are common to all taxa in the monophylitic clade. A Disclaimer for Behe?
• The way "nested" is used in cladistics the only nesting is because someone put it there. A Disclaimer for Behe?
• Unless there has been some revolution in higher-level avian cladistics I've been completely ignorant of, the seriema is considered a fairly close relative of these magnificent predators. Big Bird
• He was an early champion of cladistics in paleontology, which at the time was a new approach to studying questions in that subject.
• We view stratocladistics as still in an early stage of development, with implementation lagging behind concept.
• In cladistics, Aves is nested in Reptilia through Diapsida. A Disclaimer for Behe?
• Of course, it is possible to do cladistics without reference to evolution, but nothing in biology makes much sense-including cladistics-except in the light of evolution.