phyle

[ US /ˈfaɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a tribe of ancient Athenians
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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.
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