 In response, statistical phylogeneticists have argued that parsimony methods implicitly include evolutionary models, which model-based methods simply make explicit and, thus, subject to interrogation (de Queiroz &amp; Poe 2001, 2003; Swofford &amp; Sullivan 2009). This fault line is further reflected in the way pattern cladists view other proponents of parsimony as allies in this debate, as Brower (2019: 717), approvingly citing Kluge &amp; Farris (1999), makes clear: “despite this difference of opinion regarding critical background knowledge, there is no practical distinction between pattern and process cladists’ evidence, analyses or results. From a methodological perspective, all cladists group by synapomorphy alone.” That is, it is in the interpretation of methodology and inferential justification that distinctions are drawn between pattern and process cladists; in the larger debate with statistical phylogeneticists they are allied. Note, however, that ever finer distinctions of the term ‘cladist’ are being introduced (let alone ‘statistical phylogeneticists’, who typically associate with model-based approaches). This reflects the way this term has grown contested and associated with various competing sets of commitments. It is worth taking a brief detour in section 2.3.1 to sort through this a bit.