Lipscomb D L
Orig Life. 1984 Mar;13(3-4):235-48. doi: 10.1007/BF00927175.
The superiority of cladistic methods to both synthetic and phenetic methods is briefly advanced and reviewed. Cladistics creates testable hypotheses of phylogeny that also give a highly informative summary of available data. Thus it best fits the criteria for a method for determining the general reference classification in biology. For protistologists in particular, cladistics is especially useful. Inundated by an abundance of ultrastructural, biochemical, and cell biological information, protistologists could be greatly helped by the informative way in which cladistics orders and summarizes the data. In addition to classifying protist taxa, hypotheses about the evolution of cell organelles and cellular could be scientifically formulated and tested by cladistics . Because cladistic classifications best summarize the data, they would also be best for making predictions about taxa and characters. They would, for the same reason, be the most stable. Widespread adoption of cladistic methods would serve to stabilize the now fluid state of protist taxonomy. It is for all of these reasons that such methods best suit the needs of the evolutionary protistologist .
简要介绍并回顾了支序分类法相对于综合分类法和表型分类法的优势。支序分类学创建了可检验的系统发育假说，这些假说还能对现有数据进行高度信息丰富的总结。因此，它最符合生物学中确定通用参考分类方法的标准。特别是对于原生生物学家来说，支序分类学尤为有用。原生生物学家被大量的超微结构、生化和细胞生物学信息所淹没，而支序分类学对数据进行排序和总结的信息丰富方式能极大地帮助他们。除了对原生生物分类群进行分类外，关于细胞器和细胞进化的假说也可以通过支序分类学科学地制定和检验。由于支序分类学分类能最好地总结数据，它们也最适合对分类群和特征进行预测。出于同样的原因，它们将是最稳定的。广泛采用支序分类法将有助于稳定目前原生生物分类学的不稳定状态。正是出于所有这些原因，这些方法最适合进化原生生物学家的需求。
