I originally wrote a topic with a total word count of 60529 words, exceeding the 32000 limit. Here is PART II. PART II 1. The MINOR arguments 1.1 Too many clades? From [7:38 - 10:21] minutes, Will says he has found out a “significant problem” with cladistics: if a clade is defined as a single common ancestor + all its descendants, then that means that there are an extreme number of clades, since there are an uncountable number of ancestors. If one were to depict each and every possible clade (o...