In simple terms, cladistics consists of organizing organisms on the basis of shared features.

简单来说，进化分支学就是按照共同的特点将动物进分类。

But that isn't the only way to classify creatures, there's also a thing called cladistics.

这并不是对生物进分类的唯方法，还有种叫做分支学的东西。

Now let's use our Cladistic strategy and see if we can cut out a “fish” clade.

现在让我们使用我们的进化枝策略， 看看我们是否可以切出“” 进化枝。

Fortey and Derek Briggs-one of the other principals in Gould's book-used a method known as cladistics to compare the various Burgess fossils.

福泰和德里克·布里格斯——古尔德书里的另位重要人物——使用了种所谓进化分支学的方法，把各种布尔吉斯化石进比较。

Cladistics will recognize that a lot of its ingredients are similar to those you'd find in dinner dishes.

Cladistics 会认识到它的许多成分与晚餐菜肴的成分相似。

Derived from the works of Willy Henning, cladistics groups organisms by common characteristics traced all the way back to their common ancestor.

分支学源自威利·亨宁 (Willy Henning) 的著作，它根据共同特征对生物体进分组，这些特征可直追溯到其共同祖先。