Sentences with phrase «of cladistic»

Towards a phylogeny of the Metazoa: evaluating alternative phylogenetic positions of Platyhelminthes, Nemertea, and Gnathostomulida, with a critical reappraisal of cladistic characters.

Although not a practitioner himself of cladistic methods that were in the 1980s and 1990s transforming what we now know about dinosaur descent, he was sympathetic.

Czerkas's assertion that the use of cladistics is «one of the biggest mistakes ever made in paleontology» is laughable.

Not exact matches

First, note that the «holistic» approach of macroevolution implicitly incorporates the geologic time scales within the fossil record, allowing for comparison and contrast of the relatively minor and major morphological divergence of various forms (i.e. morphometric cladistics).

For the past two decades, scientists using cladistics have claimed that dromaeosaurs were nonavian ancestors of birds, representing the best examples of how ground - dwelling dinosaurs supposedly evolved into birds.

In the 1960s, the German entomologist Willi Hennig invented cladistics, a method of determining which branches go where on the tree of life.

Other data have cast the whole Linnaean structure into doubt (which is why there is now a competing branch of systematics, called cladistics, that tries to chart relationships in a much more precise, if cumbersome, way).

Cladistic analysis of eggshell characters: a phylogenic assessment of prismatic dinosaur eggs from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana.

While cladistics, molecular sequencing and the fossil record all present different data sets, systematic biologists generally find similar patterns of diversification in all three.

They depend heavily on cladistics, a method of hypothesizing relationships among organisms.

cladistic species concept: The concept of species, according to which a species is a lineage of populations between two phylogenetic branch points (or speciation events).

The members of a group in a cladistic classification share a more recent common ancestor with one another than with the members of any other group.

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Though you may never have heard of either «taxonomy» or «cladistics,» the two central concepts in Carol Kaesuk Yoon's 2009 opus Naming Nature, it remains a fascinating read for -LSB-...]

Cladistic analysis of myxozoan species with known alternating life - cycles.

So, if you used something like cladistics, you would avoid choosing feather color as a defining feature of swans, and birds in general.