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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who classifies organisms according to the principles of cladistics.
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- noun systematics : A
biologist who studiesclades , anevolutionary biologist who studies the pattern ofspecies interrelationships according to the principles ofcladistics .
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Examples
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Do you mean number of branches in a cladist analysis, for example?
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And we use such terms as panadaptationist and cladist.
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Now, from your posts, I would take you for a ‘cladist.’
Sternberg and the "smear" of Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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As Kai rightly jokes, unless you are a hardcore pattern cladist, and by that I mean one that maintains that neither taxa nor characters should ever be treated as ancestral, you would concede that phylogenies allow us to analyze the evolution of traits as steps that come historically one after the other.
Myrmecos Blog 2010
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