Editing Clade (section)

==Clades and phylogenetic trees==
{{Main|Phylogenetics|Cladistics}}

The science that tries to reconstruct phylogenetic trees and thus discover clades is called [[phylogenetics]] or [[cladistics]], the latter term coined by [[Ernst Mayr]] (1965), derived from "clade". The results of phylogenetic/cladistic analyses are tree-shaped diagrams called ''[[cladogram]]s''; they, and all their branches, are phylogenetic hypotheses.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nixon|first=Kevin C.|author2=Carpenter, James M.|title=On the Other "Phylogenetic Systematics"|journal=Cladistics|date=1 September 2000|volume=16|issue=3|pages=298–318|doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.2000.tb00285.x|pmid=34902935|s2cid=73530548|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Three methods of defining clades are featured in [[phylogenetic nomenclature]]: node-, stem-, and apomorphy-based (see [[Phylogenetic nomenclature#Phylogenetic definitions of clade names|Phylogenetic nomenclature§Phylogenetic definitions of clade names]] for detailed definitions).