This took the form of a monophyletic ancestral tree. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Cranial evidence for the monophyletic origin of bats. From Wordnik.com. [We flightless primates] Reference
The monophyletic Darwinian model is without foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Behe, Common Descent, & UD] Reference
The monophyletic relationships are represented in figure 6. From Wordnik.com. [A New Book] Reference
As far as I understand it, prokaryotes are not a monophyletic group. From Wordnik.com. [Genomics and the vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And they may in fact be mutually monophyletic and so both be clades. From Wordnik.com. [(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
On the question as to whether descent was monophyletic or polyphyletic. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
We can have a complex root and still have monophyletic trees emerging. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
Does the writer think taxa should be monophyletic, or is polyphyly ok?. From Wordnik.com. [Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I think most animal taxonomists hope that their taxa are monophyletic. From Wordnik.com. [(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Except a monophyletic groups is so called based on shared characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [A New Book] Reference
Which organisms, if any, form monophyletic groupings is an empirical question. From Wordnik.com. [A New Book] Reference
The set of taxa has to be monophyletic to be analysed in a cladistic approach. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
Notice that other than the addition of organelles, eukaryotes are monophyletic. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
Or it is based on non-monophyletic taxonomies that are no longer widely accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Telling apes from humans - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It is certain, however, that heliconias comprise a monophyletic group of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Heliconia - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Same with cladistics: it assumes that organisms form hierarchical monophyletic groups. From Wordnik.com. [A New Book] Reference
However, as far as I could tell, none of them were constraining a monophyletic Pisces. From Wordnik.com. [Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It seems likely, therefore, that the vendobionts as currently recognized are not monophyletic. From Wordnik.com. [Stromatoveris - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Similarly, morphospecies can clearly be non-monophyletic; all it takes is one apomorphy in some population. From Wordnik.com. [(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I read 'clade' as meaning "smallest monophyletic group with which the fragmentary taxon shares characters". From Wordnik.com. [‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV] Reference
A new species of bush-warbler from Bougainville Island and a monophyletic origin of southwest Pacifc Cettia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Families that were reconstructed as non-monophyletic are represented multiple times and numbered accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Don't blame the dinosaurs - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I realize this interpretation is anathema to the Darwnian monophyletic mindset but that does not mean that it is wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Behe, Common Descent, & UD] Reference
If you mean making only monophyletic groups in the classification system, this is overwhelmingly the standard approach. From Wordnik.com. [Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
As mentioned in the previous post, there are substantial doubts however as to whether Gruiformes is monophyletic or not. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin] Reference
Non-monophyletic taxa and cryptic species – evidence from a molecular phylogeny of leaf-warblers (Phylloscopus, Aves). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Clades are monophyletic groups of organisms or species, groups defined by an ancestor and all of and only its descendants. From Wordnik.com. [The Biological Notion of Individual] Reference
However, the news is that the picture is even more complicated than this, as it now seems that hydrophiids themselves are not monophyletic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Molecular characterization of a monophyletic Parulidae. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Outgroup taxa monophyletic with respect to ingroup taxa; 3. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Our analysis does not assume that every subspecies matches a monophyletic unit. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The problem of the monophyletic or polyphyletic origin of the human race has also been much discussed. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
This paleo-biogeographical puzzle raises significant evidential difficulties for monophyletic (single origin) scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
These data are used to define the relationship between subspecies, showing that the subspecies are reciprocally monophyletic. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Timmer argues that a "consilience" of different lines of evidence strongly favors the catechismal (monophyletic) tale, and faults. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
This method is well suited to distinguish if reticulation patterns have evolved multiple times within different monophyletic clades. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Despite their different morphology, toxin composition and disjunct geographical distribution, these strains form a monophyletic group. From Wordnik.com. [Elites TV] Reference
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