Cladist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkleɪdɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cladist is a noun meaning (systematics) A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
Meaning
(systematics) A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
Example Sentences
The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits.
Word Forms
- cladists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cladism, cladogram, cladification, cladogenesis, stratocladistics, clanistics.
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