Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evolved character or trait that is unique to a single species or group within a larger phylogenetic group. Speech is an autapomorphy of humans among primates.
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- noun cladistics A derived
trait that isunique to a particulartaxon
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Examples
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John, I think you typed synaporphy when you ment autapomorphy.
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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John, I think you typed synaporphy when you ment autapomorphy.
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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An autapomorphy is some aspect of the size or shape of a feature.
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It’s an autapomorphy if you consider the population as a single branch, but a synapomorphy uniting the many individuals in the population.
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
nuxiy commented on the word autapomorphy
"An apomorphy unique to a single species."
- SNPA
March 21, 2009