Polyphyletic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to or characterized by development from more than one ancestral type.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having multiple ancestral sources; referring to a taxon that does not contain the most recent common ancestor of its members.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to monophyletic.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or derived from several phyla; having several different lines of descent: as, a polyphyletic origin.
  • Of or pertaining to the doctrine or theory that animals are not monophyletic, but are severally and specially created, or at least derived from many different sources.
    • Word Usage
    "In a striking parallel, Lupas et al. have proposed that modern protein folds evolved by recombination of ancient peptide modules, such that the folds have independent and polyphyletic origins although they all ultimately derive from the same recombining pool of genetic elements encoding primordial peptides."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    polygenetic   
     
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