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Plant systematics

the method of polarising characters by comparing the study group with related groups outside it to decide which states are ancestral.

In plant systematics, outgroup comparison refers to the method of polarising characters by comparing the study group with related groups outside it to decide which states are ancestral. This meaning comes from Maddison (1984) in Systematic Zoology.[1]

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References

Maddison, W. P., Donoghue, M. J., & Maddison, D. R. (1984). Outgroup Analysis and Parsimony. Systematic Zoology, 33(1), 83. https://doi.org/10.2307/2413134

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