[Taxacom] Paraphyletic groups as natural units of biological
classification
Laurent Raty
l.raty at skynet.be
Sat Oct 4 02:41:40 CDT 2014
2014
On 10/03/2014 11:49 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> Not necessarily! There might be a monophyletic group consisting of two sister species (or two sister taxa, one of which is a single species). Choose any one, and the residue is monophyletic!
A "group consisting of two sister species" cannot be monophyletic.
(This definition excludes the common ancestor.)
Laurent -
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