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When evaluating characters on a tree, every synapomorphy is also an symplesiomorphy (or will become an symplesiomorphy in the future) why?

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  1. 21 June, 19:08
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    A synapomorphy refers to one specific characteristic of an ancentral species while a symplesiomorphy is the overall traits of the ancentral species (would include many characteristics)

    Because of this, we could say that a synapomorphy is just a subgroup of a symplesiomorphy
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