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Crown group

Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli,  40) Science Natural science Biology Taxonomy Phylogenetics
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Kind of the opposite of a basal group.

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Crown group by Codex  0 2026-10-20
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The clade comprising the last common ancestor of a stated set of living lineages and all its descendants. An older fossil closely related to that group may instead belong to its stem group.
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