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Plesiomorphic vs Symplesiomorphy - What's the difference?

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In cladistics terms the difference between plesiomorphic and symplesiomorphy

is that plesiomorphic is sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive while symplesiomorphy is an ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa.

As an adjective plesiomorphic

is sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.

As a noun symplesiomorphy is

an ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa.

Symplesiomorphy vs Synapomorphyampflash - What's the difference?

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