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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.
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  • 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.
  • Well, if the Pterodacytls are considered a separate group then Pterosaurs are apparently already paraphyletic. Darwinopterus and mosaic, modular evolution - The Panda's Thumb
  • To represent this, we have used multiple lines drawn to paraphyletic groups in the cladogram above.
  • Of course, above the level of the domains, Woese's thinking is (more or less) conventional evolution — the vertical descent of familiar monophyletic groups (the eukaryotes, the Metazoa, etc). A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • The old Linnaean classification "Reptiles" is paraphyletic. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
  • E.g. a fondness for Linnaean taxonomy in paleontology leads pretty rapidly to an acceptance of paraphyletic groups based on overall similarity, which then requires one to subjectively delineate the paraphyletic groups based on some fairly arbitrary “it looks like a pretty big difference to me” criterion. Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb
  • As already mentioned, the old Linnaean classification "Reptiles" is paraphyletic. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
  • The first group is identical to the commelinoid group of monocotyledons identified as a monophyletic clade in cladograms using the rbcL gene.
  • The false theory of evolution is called the monophyletic, which teaches that all species of plants and animals including man, developed from one cell or germ which came by creation or spontaneous generation. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
  • This implies the extinction of the original taxon is real, and the two taxa are polyphyletic. Elvis Has Left The Building
  • Warm-bloodedness is polyphyletic and is found in two broad classes, mammals (modified in bats) and aves. A New Book
  • Although resolved into few time slices, evidence from Folkestone suggests that the increase in average number of radial folds occurred in progressive steps and is, therefore, best viewed as gradual or incremental, phyletic evolution.
  • E.g. evolutionary systematists prefer or accept overall similarity, ranked Linnaean taxonomy, gestalt/expertise recognition of ranks, paraphyletic groups, and treat species as a another, particularly real rank. Creationist vs. creationist on Homo habilis - The Panda's Thumb
  • The old Linnaean classification "Reptiles" is paraphyletic. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
  • To further thicken the plot, I should add that most marine snails, the polyphyletic prosobranchs, have their eyes at the bases of their 1 pair of tentacles and many have opercula. Assiminea succinea
  • Bush warblers are particularly newsworthy right now (to my mind at any rate) given that the just-published oscine supertree of Jønsson & Fjeldså (2006) found Cettia to be diphyletic, with C. cetti grouping with the tesias* and Urosphena (the stubtails) while the Japanese bush warbler C. diphone grouped with the Broad-billed flycatcher-warbler Tickellia hodgsoni and Orthotomus (the tailorbirds). Archive 2006-05-01
  • 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
  • Bush warblers are particularly newsworthy right now (to my mind at any rate) given that the just-published oscine supertree of Jønsson & Fjeldså (2006) found Cettia to be diphyletic, with C. cetti grouping with the tesias* and Urosphena (the stubtails) while the Japanese bush warbler C. diphone grouped with the Broad-billed flycatcher-warbler Tickellia hodgsoni and Orthotomus (the tailorbirds). Archive 2006-05-01
  • Colored lines connect histidine kinase and response regulator proteins belonging to the same signaling pathway or species phyletic cluster.
  • In the second stage of our study we increased our taxon and nucleotide sampling to assess the likelihood that Lesser Antillean tremblers and thrashers represented a monophyletic lineage.
  • A similar feature is seen in hippos, so some workers think that peccaries and hippos are each other's closest relatives (which, if correct, would mean either that peccaries are whippomorphs, or that Whippomorpha is not monophyletic*). More on what I saw at the zoo
  • Microsporidia are a monophyletic assemblage of obligate intracellular parasites that generally infect animals (particularly arthropods and fish).
  • Phylogenetic analyses of a wide variety of gene sequences all support the hypothesis that hexapods and crustaceans form a monophyletic group to the exclusion of myriapods and chelicerates.
  • Sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene and the hypervariable control region as well as 7th intron of the nuclear fibrinogen gene show these 2 taxa to be reciprocally monophyletic. Archive 2008-11-01
  • However, molecular studies have consistently found mangabeys to be diphyletic, with the six terrestrial mangabey species forming a clade with drills and mandrills (and with macaques too in some studies), and the two arboreal mangabeys forming a clade with baboons and geladas. Archive 2006-06-01
  • In traditional classifications, the hagfish, lampreys, and extinct armored jawless fish are grouped together in the paraphyletic Class Agnatha.
  • Most of the traditionally recognized subgenera of Anchusa are also supported as monophyletic groups by both nuclear and plastid sequence data.
  • All trees, both including and excluding gapped regions, found reciprocally monophyletic lineages for M. edulis and M. trossulus, with Baltic alleles falling unambiguously in both the M. edulis and M. trossulus clades.
  • In a striking parallel, Lupas et al. have proposed that modern protein folds evolved by recombination of ancient peptide modules, such that the folds have independent and polyphyletic origins although they all ultimately derive from the same recombining pool of genetic elements encoding primordial peptides. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • As already mentioned, the old Linnaean classification "Reptiles" is paraphyletic. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
  • Some morphology supports a diphyletic relationship within the Chiroptera. How to make a bat - The Panda's Thumb
  • Thus, whereas the initial evolution of potential radial folds may have been allopatric, in this case there must have been substantial phyletic evolution following speciation that affected the global population.
  • It is called polyphyletic evolution, which means that God created numerous stocks, or beginnings of both plant and animal life, which were subject to change and growth, deterioration and development, according to his plan and purpose. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
  • Between the Hepaticae, Anthocerotales, Sphagnales and Musci, there are no connecting forms known, and it must be left as an open question whether the Bryophyta are a monophyletic or polyphyletic group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Skeletal and dental morphology supports diphyletic origin of baboons and mandrills. Archive 2006-06-01
  • Cockroaches, termites, and mantids form the well-accepted monophyletic group Dictyoptera.
  • I realize this interpretation is anathema to the Darwnian monophyletic mindset but that does not mean that it is wrong. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
  • Based on the additional support of molecular data, we hereafter use the name Zenarchopteridae for this monophyletic group of halfbeaks.
  • If not, we are into paraphyletic or polyphyletic taxa. (UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb
  • Land plants are composed of four monophyletic groups: vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
  • If correct, this diphyletic take on mangabey affinities would mean that geladas, baboons, drills and mandrills do not form a clade of ‘dog-faced cercopithecids’ as conventionally thought. Archive 2006-06-01
  • The amniotes are a monophyletic group of vertebrates, comprising reptiles, birds, and mammals, that develops in its embryonic life the envelope called amnion.
  • This increase in disparity also corresponded to a phyletic radiation, as all the earliest Jurassic ammonites derived from scarce ammonites of rather homogeneous and medium-sized species.
  • Lumping it with the latter would give a paraphyletic group. Darwinopterus and mosaic, modular evolution - The Panda's Thumb
  • A simple form taxon, such as Chuaria circularis, may embrace a polyphyletic array of organisms that includes cyanobacteria as well as protists.
  • On mainland love musical instrument, person animal two big phyletic build a style repeatedly disparate.
  • Hennig's idea that groups of organisms, or taxa, should be recognized and formally named only in cases where they are evolutionarily real entities, that is "monophyletic", at first was controversial. A New Book
  • Are we not compelled to adopt what is called the monophyletic hypothesis, that is, that our line of descent started from one pair, male and female, somewhere in the vast stretch of geologic or biologic time, and to reason that, had that pair been out of the race, we should not have appeared? Time and Change
  • Land plants are composed of four monophyletic groups: vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
  • Zach: Warm-bloodedness is polyphyletic and is found in two broad classes, mammals (modified in bats) and aves. A New Book
  • Thick vertical lines along the species tree indicate taxa whose P elements are not monophyletic.
  • Here we show, for eight heterosexual transmission pairs, that recipient viruses were monophyletic, encoding compact, glycan-restricted envelope glycoproteins.
  • These taxa together form a paraphyletic group at the base of the clade of biramous arthropods.
  • The present study, as well as previous molecular studies, suggest that the oegopsid squids represent a polyphyletic group with uncertain phylogenetic affinities.
  • The genus Calidris is paraphyletic, meaning that the birds in this group resemble each other closely despite not being close relatives - a stunning example of convergent evolution that anyone can see for themselves whilst walking along the beaches. The Guardian World News
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The second possible mechanism is acceleration or retardation of development in the course of phyletic evolution.
  • Because the taxa are not reciprocally monophyletic, we cannot date the actual speciation event.
  • The tree topology showed that the endosymbiotic species formed a well-supported monophyletic group.
  • Alethinophidians and scolecophidians form a monophyletic ophidian clade that is also unresolved within scleroglossans.
  • The Galaxoidea, in turn, are paraphyletic and contain the Stomiiformes (lanternfishes) which are often regarded as part of the Stenopterygii.
  • Given two monophyletic groups of taxa, the site patterns found in an alignment of sequences can be described in terms of five classes.
  • Timmer argues that a "consilience" of different lines of evidence strongly favors the catechismal (monophyletic) tale, and faults Evolution News & Views
  • Punctuated equilibrium is commonly contrasted against the theory of phyletic gradualism, which hypothesizes that most evolution occurs uniformly and by the steady and gradual transformation of whole lineages anagenesis. Secondary Addiction: Ann Coulter on Evolution - The Panda's Thumb
  • Bush warblers are particularly newsworthy right now (to my mind at any rate) given that the just-published oscine supertree of Jønsson & Fjeldså (2006) found Cettia to be diphyletic, with C. cetti grouping with the tesias* and Urosphena (the stubtails) while the Japanese bush warbler C. diphone grouped with the Broad-billed flycatcher-warbler Tickellia hodgsoni and Orthotomus (the tailorbirds). Archive 2006-05-01
  • Except a monophyletic groups is so called based on shared characteristics. A New Book
  • 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. and A New Book
  • Those directed towards the maintenance of self are called egoistic activities, while those directed to the maintenance of the race are called _phyletic activities_. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
  • Later, however, a morphological analysis suggested that the Hardella complex constitutes a polyphyletic group.
  • The plant mariner-like elements were used as a monophyletic out-group, a position suggested by previous analyses.
  • Hierarchy II represents the monophyletic grouping of terminal species (Fig. 3b), and this has been rotated and shifted to a new position (Fig. 5g), with shading added to highlight sister-groups. A New Book
  • Phylogenetic relationships inferred from hsp 82 depicted the rotifer class Seisonidea as the sister taxon of a monophyletic trichotomy that included Acanthocephala, Bdelloidea, and Monogononta.
  • The monophyletic Darwinian model is without foundation. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
  • Those directed towards the maintenance of self are called egoistic activities, while those directed to the maintenance of the race are called _phyletic activities_. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
  • These investigations demonstrated that it was possible to follow out step by step in superjacent strata the actual evolution of fossil species and to establish the actual "phyletic series. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • 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.
  • Loriciferans were originally assigned to the paraphyletic or polyphyletic group called Aschelminthes.
  • The monilophytes refers to the monophyletic clade of horsetails and ferns.
  • For example, based on morphol;ogical and developmental characters, we are fairly confident that the vertebrates represent a good monophyletic group. Let's Talk Junk (Again). - The Panda's Thumb
  • However, each tribe individually is either paraphyletic or polyphyletic with respect to most recent songbird classifications.
  • The taxonomy of the group is not well resolved, with many family-group taxa considered paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and several subfamilies are unplaced at the family level.
  • Migratory behavior appears to have evolved multiple times in Catharus, so the species mentioned above do not constitute a monophyletic clade.
  • De Pinna M (1991) Concepts and tests of homology in the cladistic Kluge AG, Farris JS (1969) Quantitative phyletics and the evolution paradigm. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • It now seems likely that the first two of these groups are paraphyletic; that is, they contain some but not all descendants of a common ancestor.
  • Meyer asserts that the Cambrian explosion represented an actual sudden origin of higher taxa; that these taxa such as phyla are “real” and not an artifact of human retrospective classification; and that morphological disparity coincides with phyletic categories. The Panda's Thumb: MustRead Archives
  • I was going to direct ID guy's attention to Figure 8 in Knox's paper, that shows how clades can be nested by forming increasingly inclusive monophyletic groups. A New Book
  • Plan plan archbishop is south Africa leads a black to object phyletic and oppressive firm fighter.

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