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An ancestral character state.
Character in an ancestor that is also observable in a descendant. Considered as a primitive trait, such as ziphodont teeth.
A shared ancestral character state.
A relatively primitive or ancestral character state (cf. apomorphy).
a character state already present in the ancestral species of a group under study.
A primitive character state for the taxa under consideration.
Plesiomorphy (meaning "old form") is a primitive character of a group.
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