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a person who practices cladistics, a method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common
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The cladist analysis revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species.
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The cladist study showed how the animals are related to each other.
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I heard that cladists are like the detectives of the evolutionary world.
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Just like a cladist traces the history of species, we can trace our own family tree.