How To Use phyle In A Sentence
- Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
- Timmer argues that a "consilience" of different lines of evidence strongly favors the catechismal (monophyletic) tale, and faults Evolution News & Views
- Given two monophyletic groups of taxa, the site patterns found in an alignment of sequences can be described in terms of five classes.
- The Galaxoidea, in turn, are paraphyletic and contain the Stomiiformes (lanternfishes) which are often regarded as part of the Stenopterygii.
- Alethinophidians and scolecophidians form a monophyletic ophidian clade that is also unresolved within scleroglossans.
- The tree topology showed that the endosymbiotic species formed a well-supported monophyletic group.
- Because the taxa are not reciprocally monophyletic, we cannot date the actual speciation event.
- The second possible mechanism is acceleration or retardation of development in the course of phyletic evolution.
- In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins. Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
- They found that the hypothesis that a monophyletic Mesonychia is the sister taxon of Cetacea, and a monophyletic Artiodactyla is the extant sister taxon of Cetacea was significantly congruent with the stratigraphic record.
