| Of course, it is possible to do cladistics without reference to evolution, but nothing in biology makes much sense-including cladistics-except in the light of evolution. |
| Over the past ten years, cladistics and molecular systematics have begun to be applied to solve problems of bivalve evolutionary biology. |
| They see a grand synthesis between developmental genetics and cladistics, and work to interest students in creating it. |
| However this placement may change as molecular systematics provides new insights into the cladistics of the bivalves. |
| In general, recent cladistic analyses have not yet fully exploited the power of cladistics to test available competing hypotheses. |
| Newer tools, such as scanning electron microscopy, molecular methods, and cladistics, remain little-tried for spiders, but they have changed traditional classification schemes. |
