Sentences with phrase «using 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.

Not exact matches

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

To help figure out how species are related, scientists use a method called cladistics, invented by Willi Hennig in 1950.

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