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paraphyletic1965
Of a group or taxon: comprising a number of organisms whose most recent common ancestor had other evolutionary descendants not included in the…
holophyletic1971
Of a group or taxon: including all and only the descendants of a common ancestor or ancestral group; monophyletic (in the narrower sense). Cf. paraphy…