monophyly

That’s pretty interesting, though it has to be said that the statistical support for turiasaurian monophyly is not overwhelmingly impressive.

Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006

That’s pretty interesting, though it has to be said that the statistical support for turiasaurian monophyly is not overwhelmingly impressive.

Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

This "monophyly" hypothesis (figure 4B-1) requires the same number of gene gains or losses as the "paraphyly" hypothesis sustained by our phylogeny (figure 4A), both being thus equally parsimonious.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

In any case, the possibility of multiple aboriginal cells does not survive into textbook neo-Darwinism, in which universal monophyly (a single Tree of Life, rooted in a common ancestor [cell]) is orthodoxy.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

You then cited publications where Woese, Doolittle, and others, affirm their faith in the monophyly of Eukarya, Metazoa, chimps and humans, whatever.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

You then cited publications where Woese, Doolittle, and others, affirm their faith in the monophyly of Eukarya, Metazoa, chimps and humans, whatever.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

(If one argues, as do Vestigian et al. 2006 about the genetic code, that a biological character has come to be multiple times independently, that character cannot be used to establish monophyly, in this instance, the monophyly of life on Earth.)

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

Hence, Oleg draws a horizontal line to indicate the origin of Eukarya, but it is a line with no internal points, allowing him both to assert and deny the monophyly of the clade.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

But not species, unless you want to make monophyly a part of the species definition.

(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009

And sure; biological species have no requirement of monophyly.

(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009