character states

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 292 words | Copyright

character states Particular versions of a character. Thus, the character ‘horns’ may have the character states ‘straight’, ‘curly’, etc. The proper elucidation of character states and their polarity is one of the major concerns of cladistic analysis.

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