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- noun taxonomy The condition of being
polyphyletic
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Examples
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Does the writer think taxa should be monophyletic, or is polyphyly ok?
Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Most recently, Ericson et al. (2006), in a study of molecular sequence data, also supported gruiform polyphyly.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Most recently, Ericson et al. (2006), in a study of molecular sequence data, also supported gruiform polyphyly.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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A growing number of scientist are now questioning the very root of Darwin's tree and the veracity of LUCA, moving more towards polyphyly as a better theory to describe history and DNA results.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Both creationism and neo-Darwinism are, in contrast, emphatically historicist with one positing extreme polyphyly (de novo creation of species) and the other radical monophyly (common descent).
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Fraser and Peterson, after the first global transposon mutagenesis experiment in Mycoplasma, speculated that the high percentage of “unknown function” sequences may reflect aboriginal polyphyly for many cellular functions.
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EE footnote should grasp that scientific opinions about polyphyly differ.
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EE tries for "borrowed credibility," misleading its readers about the true outlines of the current mono - versus polyphyly debate.
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EE tries for "borrowed credibility," misleading its readers about the true outlines of the current mono - versus polyphyly debate.
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EE footnote should grasp that scientific opinions about polyphyly differ.
mollusque commented on the word polyphyly
The condition of being derived from more than one ancestral stock. Compare monophyly and polyphylly.
April 6, 2008