English

Noun

cladist ‎(plural cladists)

1. (systematics): A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
   • 1997, Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays, page 448:

     The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits.

See also

• clade
• cladistics