Definition of "monophyly" []

• In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species. (noun)

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• "That’s pretty interesting, though it has to be said that the statistical support for turiasaurian monophyly is not overwhelmingly impressive."
• "This "monophyly" hypothesis (figure 4B-1) requires the same number of gene gains or losses as the "paraphyly" hypothesis sustained by our phylogeny (figure 4A), both being thus equally parsimonious."
• "In any case, the possibility of multiple aboriginal cells does not survive into textbook neo-Darwinism, in which universal monophyly (a single Tree of Life, rooted in a common ancestor [cell]) is orthodoxy."