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- noun Plural form of
cladist .
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Examples
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Can you explain what "transformed cladistics" means, and why some cladists want to separate cladistic analysis from theoretical considerations?
A New Book 2010
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Mammals are a clade, and therefore the cladists are happy to acknowledge the traditional taxon Mammalia; and birds, too, are a clade, universally ascribed to the formal taxon Aves.
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That might be a cladists view of how the nomenclature should be applied, but tradition holds that reptilia does not include aves and so is not a clade.
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At best, the cladists suggest, we could say that the traditional Reptila are 'non-avian, non-mammalian amniotes'.
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Some zoologists, called ‘cladists’,* insist that a proper class must consist of animals all of whom share a common ancestor which belonged to that class and which has no descendants outside that group.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Some zoologists, called ‘cladists’,* insist that a proper class must consist of animals all of whom share a common ancestor which belonged to that class and which has no descendants outside that group.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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It may be two or three branches off of the line leading to modern birds, according to the cladists.
Secondary Addiction, part 3: Ann Coulter on Evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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In contrast to these, many transformed cladists and non-Darwinians question macroevolution, and anti-evolutionists repudiate it.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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[41] Evolutionist cladists place modern birds within the clade dinosauria, meaning that they consider all bird species today as, technically, dinosaurs.
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Palaeontological and Molecular Evidence Linking Arthropods, Onychophorans, and other Ecdysozoa, which weighs the evidence in the great dispute between the cladists who favor a grouping of invertebrates into an Articulata clade, vs. an Ecdysozoan clade.
Pharyngula 2009
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