{"id":2013,"date":"2012-08-09T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=2013"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T11:22:47","slug":"basal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=2013","title":{"rendered":"Basal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basal is a term used in phylogenetics (for an introduction, check out our article on <a title=\"Patterns in Palaeontology: Parsimony and Palaeobiology\" href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/articles\/2012\/patterns-in-palaeontology-parsimony-and-palaeobiology\/\">parsimony<\/a>). A clade is\u00a0a a group comprising one extinct, or extant, species and all its descendants. A basal clade, is the earliest branching clade in a larger clade. For exampls, the family\u00a0Homininae (the great apes) is a clade consisting gorillas, humans, bonobos and chimpanzees. Humans, bonobos and chimpanzees share a more common ancestor, than they do with gorillas; the gorillas are the earliest branching group in the Homininae, and so are the basal clade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basal is a term used in phylogenetics (for an introduction, check out our article on parsimony). A clade is\u00a0a a group comprising one extinct, or extant, species and all its descendants. A basal clade, is the earliest branching clade in a larger clade. For exampls, the family\u00a0Homininae (the great apes) is a clade consisting gorillas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":341,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2013","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013\/revisions\/2014"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}