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24 April, 09:02

Difference between ancestral and derived traits

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    Primitive traits are those inherited from distant ancestors. Derived traits are those that just appeared (by mutation) in the most recent ancestor - - the one that gave rise to a newly formed branch. Of course, what's primitive or derived is relative to what branch an organism is on.
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