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Keywords: Ancestral, Primitive, Ziphodont, Apomorphy, Taxa

Related Terms: Genealogy, Pedigree, Clan, Ancestor, Ancestral, Ancestry, Blood, Breed, Consanguinity, Genera, Genus, Lineage, Monophyletic, Order, Phylogeny, Phylogenetic, Polyphyletic, Taxon, Throwback, Purebred, Clade, Cladistics, Cladogram, Outgroup, Paraphyletic, Parsimony, Taxa, Synapomorphy, Descent Group, Cladogenesis, Autapomorphy, Homoplasy, Operational Taxonomic Unit, Symplesiomorphy, Phenetics, Phenogram, Phylogenetic Tree, Anagenesis, Common Ancestor, Mrca, Stasis, Ingroup, Kindred, Line Breeding, Monophyletic Group, Breed, Ancestors, Bloodline, Apomorphy

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An ancestral character state.

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Character in an ancestor that is also observable in a descendant. Considered as a primitive trait, such as ziphodont teeth.

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A shared ancestral character state.

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A relatively primitive or ancestral character state (cf. apomorphy).

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