{"id":3518,"date":"2015-03-30T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=3518"},"modified":"2015-09-23T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:14:16","slug":"monophyletic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=3518","title":{"rendered":"Monophyletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0monophyletic group is one which forms a <a href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/glossary\/c\/clade\/\">clade<\/a>:\u00a0group of animals which comprises an ancestor and all of its descendants.\u00a0For example, birds are monophyletic. Reptiles (such as crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and turtles) are not monophyletic, because the group does not include birds, which are also descendants of the most recent common ancestor of crocodiles,lizards, snakes, and turtles. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/glossary\/p\/paraphyletic\/\">paraphyletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0monophyletic group is one which forms a clade:\u00a0group of animals which comprises an ancestor and all of its descendants.\u00a0For example, birds are monophyletic. Reptiles (such as crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and turtles) are not monophyletic, because the group does not include birds, which are also descendants of the most recent common ancestor of crocodiles,lizards, snakes, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":364,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518","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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518\/revisions\/3724"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}