The term nested in cladistics is used precisely in the same sense as in nested hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

In biology cladistics is an analytical approach to a defined set of taxa.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

Also "nested" in cladistics just means that someone put them there as an ancestor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

The way "nested" is used in cladistics the only nesting is because someone put it there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

It also appears that the word "nested" in cladistics isn't used how the rest of the world uses the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

ID guy: I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

I imagine it's rather important in cladistics to be able to differentiate between homologous traits and analogous traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

I have already provided a reference that says cladistics is not the same as Linnean classification, yet you seem to conflate the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

That is cladistics, which is different from Linnean taxonomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

ID guy: That is cladistics, which is different from Linnean taxonomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

Such relationships are determined through a method of scientific analysis called cladistics, which the Museum helped pioneer.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference

There are three basic assumptions in cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

Aves are nested under reptiles in cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

With cladistics, why only two paths from any node?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

Regarding cladistics and inferred speciation…so what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the new Darwin Debate is Good News | PopPolitics.com] Reference

Sirhan interrupts, "You still need my cladistics project.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

ID guy: With cladistics, why only two paths from any node?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

In cladistics, Aves is nested in Reptilia through Diapsida.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

This is a positive feature of cladistics – it's falsifiable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

So yes, common descent is the theoretical foundation for cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

That's exactly what we mean by cladistics with nodes at each branching.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

It (cladistics) uses shared characteristics to determine common ancestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

That's why the Linnaean taxonomy has been abandoned in favor of cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

So we developed cladistics to help illustrate the tree patterns Darwin drew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

The word "nested" when it comes to cladistics means something else entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

In cladistics, the clade is a hypothetical construct based on experimental data.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

Consider areal influence, creoles and code-switching which clearly defy cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese] Reference

That cladograms/cladistics are not beholden to the same rules as a nested hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

ID guy: with cladistics EVERY point along the connecting lines is a transitional form.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

Same with cladistics: it assumes that organisms form hierarchical monophyletic groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

In cladistics whatever is an ancestor of another is in the same clade as that "parent".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

Common ancestry is ASSUMED depending on the number of SHARED CHARACTERISTICS. cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

But again that is my point - that the way the word "nested" is used is different. cladistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

In cladistics, Mammalia and Dinosauria are strictly contained in (proper subsets of) Amniota.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

Wrong - a polytomy is not that cladistics can only have two branches from any particular node.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

As for cladistics - it ASSUMES descent with modification - the very thing we are trying to test!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

Quantitative cladistics (1969) put it on a solid empirical foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

A modern comparative cladistics would open up the black box for universal analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference