| Continual improvement of phylogenetic hypotheses and associated improvements in nomenclature to reflect that increased knowledge is advocated by Practicing Cladists. |
| Contrary to some critics of parsimony methods, cladists neither deny the possibility that true ancestors are being sampled nor reject the reality of anagenesis. |
| Cladists attempt to create monophyletic groupings, ones that include ancestral taxa and all of the descendants. |
