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单词 monophyletic
释义

monophyleticadj.

Brit. /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)fʌɪˈlɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˌfaɪˈlɛdɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: mono- comb. form, phyletic adj.
Etymology: < mono- comb. form + phyletic adj., after German Monophylet, noun ( Haeckel Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868) xix. 511). Compare French monophylétique (1874 in a translation of Haeckel). Compare slightly later polyphyletic adj.
Biology.
Of a group or taxon: descended from a common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group; (also, esp. in cladistics) including all and only the descendants of a common ancestor or ancestral group (= holophyletic adj.). Of a classification scheme: employing such taxa. Cf. polyphyletic adj.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > descent from common ancestor
pure1569
truly1650
thoroughbred1719
thorough-blood1774
monogeneous1857
genetic1860
monogenous1866
homogenetic1870
homogenetical1870
homogenous1870
monophyletic1874
clean-bred1882
homodemic1883
homophylic1883
homosystemic1883
line-bred1891
synepigonic1904
cladistic1960
1874 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 14 247 Monophyletic stem-structure of the Animal Kingdom.
1927 N. P. Williams Ideas of Fall & Orig. Sin viii. 516 The ‘monophyletic’ theory of the origin of humanity (that is, the view which regards the whole of mankind as descended from a single pair of ancestors).
1946 Nature 16 Nov. 719/1 This clear distinction between the genera at so deep a level in the Palæocene is not suggestive of a monophyletic origin for the family.
1953 E. Mayr et al. Methods & Princ. Systematic Zool. iii. 41 One of the objects of taxonomists in the post-Darwinian period was to construct a classification of animals composed of monophyletic groups.
1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) i. 3/1 Polyphyletic taxa..are to be avoided, and should be broken down into monophyletic taxa.
1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 130 Several of the taxa, especially large ones like Bryophyta, are almost certainly not monophyletic.

Derivatives

monophyˈletically adv.
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1950 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 234 179 Regarding the relation between Scleractinia and Rugosa, he maintains that the former arose monophyletically from the plerophyllids of late Palaeozoic time.
1973 Nature 23 Mar. 284/1 It is possible that all living organisms might have evolved from some primitive form (monophyletically).
1994 Nature 7 Apr. 507/1 By 1981, most workers believed that all tetrapods were derived monophyletically from within or near the osteolepiforms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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