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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a group of taxa that includes the common ancestor of all the members as well as all descendants of that ancestor.
- adjective Of or derived from one stock or source.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a single phylum: said of a group of any grade in zoology, with reference to the origin of all the members of such group from a common ancestor: opposed to polyphyletic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to
polyphyletic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single
phylum (or othertaxon ) oforganisms . - adjective biology Deriving from a single
clade (monophylum ).
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Examples
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The false theory of evolution is called the monophyletic, which teaches that all species of plants and animals including man, developed from one cell or germ which came by creation or spontaneous generation.
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
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Are we not compelled to adopt what is called the monophyletic hypothesis, that is, that our line of descent started from one pair, male and female, somewhere in the vast stretch of geologic or biologic time, and to reason that, had that pair been out of the race, we should not have appeared?
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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Hennig's idea that groups of organisms, or taxa, should be recognized and formally named only in cases where they are evolutionarily real entities, that is "monophyletic", at first was controversial.
A New Book 2010
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Hierarchy I is non-nested, all entities are species, and first life equally well represents the progenitor of all life or of some restricted monophyletic group.
A New Book 2010
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Hierarchy II represents the monophyletic grouping of terminal species (Fig. 3b), and this has been rotated and shifted to a new position (Fig. 5g), with shading added to highlight sister-groups.
A New Book 2010
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I realize this interpretation is anathema to the Darwnian monophyletic mindset but that does not mean that it is wrong.
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The monophyletic Darwinian model is without foundation.
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Except a monophyletic groups is so called based on shared characteristics.
A New Book 2010
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I was going to direct ID guy's attention to Figure 8 in Knox's paper, that shows how clades can be nested by forming increasingly inclusive monophyletic groups.
A New Book 2010
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Hierarchy I is non-nested, all entities are species, and first life equally well represents the progenitor of all life or of some restricted monophyletic group. and
A New Book 2010
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