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• If one denies paraphyletic taxa, where do genera and families come from?
• 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
• Taxa names represent monophyletic groups of viruses with similar coding capacities.
• In fact, it is possible that the group is paraphyletic; the last common ancestor of all polymerid trilobites may also have been ancestral to the agnostids as well.
• Parsimony analyses recover a paraphyletic Rotifera, where a bdelloid rotifer and acanthocephalans form a monophyletic clade.
• We shall make use of it later on for our monophyletic theory of descent -- the hypothesis of a common descent of man and all the metazoa from the gastraea. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
• Over the last two decades, various members of the Coeloscleritophora have been compared to sponges, annelids, mollusks, ascidians, and brachiopods, and the group is likely polyphyletic as other authors have suggested.
• Invertebrate stocks that colonized Ascension underwent a variety of evolutionary changes including phyletic evolution leading to endemic status, adaptation to subterranean life (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Collembola, and Psocoptera), character release (phorid Diptera), and probably splitting of lineages (speciation) within the island (Isopoda, Collembola, and gryllid Orthoptera). Ascension scrub and grasslands
• 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
• We extended the analysis to the five cowbird species that conform a monophyletic group in the phylogeny.