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Finally, the smooth external surface of the cleithrum represents a further reductiveapomorphyof this fish.
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In human evolution, the chin is a cladisticapomorphy, partially defining anatomically modern humans as distinct from archaic forms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It can therefore be considered anapomorphyin relation to a single taxon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The point-and-gargle response to threats is also anapomorphyof these two species.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Avialae is also occasionally defined as anapomorphy-based clade (that is, one based on physical characteristics).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The strongestapomorphyaligning the class with other crustaceans is the carapace.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Their characteristicapomorphyis the ridge which divides each of their huge compound eyes; they are thus known as split-eyed owlflies.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Crocodylotarsi was defined as anapomorphy-based taxon based on the presence of a crocodile-normal ankle joint (considered to be the defining apomorphy of the clade).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Mortimer (2012) has proposed that the observed difference in the leg bone might be just size-related, and not a trueapomorphy.
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