Gould never embraced cladistics as a method of investigating evolutionary lineages and process, possibly because he was concerned that such investigations would lead to neglect of the details in historical biology, which he considered all-important.
Gould nunca abrazou a cladística como método de investigación de liñas e procesos evolutivos, posiblemente porque o preocupaba que esas investigaciones o levasen a descoidar detalles da bioloxía histórica, que consideraba de suma importancia.