We are not aware, however, of any previous studies that have used cladistic methods to define paleontological species. |
As usual with cladistic analyses, the vast majority of anatomical traits are scored as a present-absent polarity in each organism. |
However, a cladistic approach to phenotype association studies does not require a complete absence of recombination. |
This would effectively divorce cladistic biogeography from the inference of causal processes. |
It is through cladistic analysis that we are able to tell homoplasy from synapomorphy. |
He argues that a cladistic treatment of data from diploid and allopolyploid taxa together will inevitably produce a wrong result. |