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/ˈkleɪdɪst/ · noun
(systematics) A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics..
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.
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Cladist means (systematics) A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics..
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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.
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