Background knowledge: the assumptions of pattern cladistics.
Andrew V Z BrowerPublished in: Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society (2019)
This paper reviews the ontogeny of pattern cladistics from the 1970s and 1980s, rebuts criticisms by contemporary anti-cladists, and endeavours to clarify persistent misunderstandings about the philosophical foundations of the approach.