Cladistics Part 2: Monophyly, Paraphyly, and Polyphyly

Now that we know how to construct cladograms, we have to learn some new terminology. These are the terms monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly, and they help us distinguish between any old taxon and true clades. Let's learn more about cladistics now!
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  • @blockyneon6385
    @blockyneon63852 жыл бұрын

    Thank you professor jesus.

  • @genshorts
    @genshorts2 жыл бұрын

    Dave your english motivates me

  • @JVishGenX
    @JVishGenX Жыл бұрын

    Nice informative explanation. Thanks for this 👍

  • @sciencenerd7639
    @sciencenerd76392 жыл бұрын

    very helpful explanation, thanks so much

  • @ferociousfeind8538
    @ferociousfeind85382 жыл бұрын

    0:39 I like to think of it more like... Taxons are an early attempt at describing and categorizing life, that was limited in scope. Clades on the other hand are recursive, they allow for a theoretically infinite number of nested clades, and a theoretically infinitely-fine-grained description of evolutionary history. Where there can't be a kingdom within a phylum, a clade can always be nested within another clade. And that recursiveness better reflects how life works, the processes don't fundamentally change over time, it's always the same mechanisms, just as the same mechanism dictates how the animal kingdom arises and how the mammal (...order?) arises. They're the same sort of thing, they're all clades, all the way down.

  • @_ninthRing_

    @_ninthRing_

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Law of Monophyly states that you can never grow out of your Ancestry, meaning that once an organism belongs to a clade, it always remains within that clade (& the specific criteria for that clade will always describe them). Humans are *Eukaryotes:* Organisms with cellular *DNA* contained within a *Nucleus* protected by a *Nuclear Envelope.* This characteristic evolved way back when our ancestors were still single-celled microbes (during the Proterozoic Eon, approximately 2.1 - 1.6 Billion years ago), but despite since having evolved into much more complex, multi-cellular lifeforms, we are still members of the Eukaryote Clade & always will be. ~⊚~ Anyone interested in Biology (especially Evolutionary Biology & Cladistics), I highly recommend that you watch *AronRa's* (Paleontologist) brilliant KZread Series: *_The Systematic Classification of Life._* Over the series, he follows through most of the *50+ Clades* in the Human / Homo Sapiens lineage (plus discussing the evolution of several other clades) all the way from the beginning (or as close as we can currently get) through to modern day. It's profoundly fascinating & utterly addicting. ; ) [ kzread.info/head/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW ]

  • @HodorsLeftShoe
    @HodorsLeftShoe2 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @scapegoatiscariot2767
    @scapegoatiscariot27672 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir. So concise

  • @MisterItchy
    @MisterItchy2 жыл бұрын

    comment for the algorithm!

  • @vincekelly5233

    @vincekelly5233

    2 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @paulsirmay8405
    @paulsirmay84052 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Dave, I really enjoy your content. If more of these videos reached more fanatical "anti-evo/creation/flat-earth" believers maybe society could break through the "I need to believe to exsist" population. Good job and keep the educational content coming. I know what is but I am willing to change my view when new evidence arises. I just wish humans would realize that we can't survive if we can't see what's really true. Save the other animals on this planet is what I "believe"

  • @glennpearson9348
    @glennpearson93482 жыл бұрын

    Great work, Professor Dave! Looking forward to the next installment when you start in on whole Kingdoms! Kent Hovind must be going nuts right about now since this series blows a huge hole in his creationist battleship. Maybe you can demonstrate for him using a cladogram how horses descended from a rock (j/k)!

  • @markshort9098

    @markshort9098

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kunt will just ignore it, blatant lies make him way to much money for him to ever change his script.. aron ra done a whole series debunking kunts lies in the textbooks series but i think you've already seen it, your name looks familiar

  • @vincekelly5233
    @vincekelly52332 жыл бұрын

    Hey Dave, big fan here. I am not very into the biology videos but just giving a "like" and "view". I know it has to be hard to make all these videos and I enjoy most of them.

  • @CrackyCartoons
    @CrackyCartoons2 жыл бұрын

    Bruhhhh I’m learning this for my finals. You explained it in seconds . Amazing

  • @felizian9734
    @felizian97342 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @TheMemesofDestruction
    @TheMemesofDestruction2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Professor! ^.^

  • @Neonblue84
    @Neonblue842 жыл бұрын

    Mono-, para- and polyphyly is a confusing area in cladistic. Hallo Dr. Dave, can we dive deeper into the point "basal/primitiv and modern" characteristic?

  • @michaelpolifka10
    @michaelpolifka102 жыл бұрын

    Wow, Professor Dave's show is really advanced. That is why I haven't seen a lot of it. A lot is beyond me.

  • @Vector_Ze

    @Vector_Ze

    2 жыл бұрын

    Everything I learned about classification in the 1960s & 70s has been thrown out the window. I first realized this when I was 'corrected' several times by people much younger than me, who learned within the new system. It's weird for a former honors biology student to feel archaic. The obsolete man, so to speak.

  • @Vector_Ze

    @Vector_Ze

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Sage I'm so glad nobody ever subjected me to creationism in school.

  • @markshort9098

    @markshort9098

    2 жыл бұрын

    Check out aron ra the systematic classification of life.. it's well worth it.. in my opinion it's the best series on KZread (sorry professor Dave), I've seen it at least half a dozen times already and i intend watching it again at least a few more times.. it's about 50 10 minute videos and it's easy to understand in little bite size pieces

  • @parasxos-_-9003
    @parasxos-_-90032 жыл бұрын

    Thank you chemistry jesus🙏

  • @digitalbook8503

    @digitalbook8503

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Magdalena-vr6we

    @Magdalena-vr6we

    Жыл бұрын

    Lmao

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    @greendayisawesome123

    Жыл бұрын

    Lmaooo

  • @susmitachakraborty1674
    @susmitachakraborty1674 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks professor

  • @ultraviolet6836
    @ultraviolet68362 жыл бұрын

    Ur so helpful

  • @fbi7389
    @fbi73892 жыл бұрын

    Thank you jesus.

  • @Danny.143
    @Danny.1432 жыл бұрын

    Thank you professor Jesus, we love you

  • @rahulsurywanshi2125
    @rahulsurywanshi21252 жыл бұрын

    With the help of cladistics we get different branches of species characters of common ancestry something that are similar but their phylum were different, yah!

  • @PunmasterSTP
    @PunmasterSTP2 жыл бұрын

    Monophyly? More like "My, these videos are regarded highly!" Thanks again for making and sharing so much exceptional academic content.

  • @Xeroisawesome
    @Xeroisawesome2 жыл бұрын

    I have been in so many arguments about the term reptile not being monophyletic that it beggars the imagination. *Edit to clarify that I know the term is not monophyletic, but several others apparently don't.

  • @thoginator
    @thoginator2 жыл бұрын

    Amen to that Chemistry Jesus

  • @bradsillasen1972
    @bradsillasen19722 жыл бұрын

    I assume you've contained this discussion to the animal kingdom, excluding other basal life forms such as plants, fungi, bacteria etc. for simplicity? As such it seems some may misinterpret cladistics to apply only to animals. Please correct me if I'm missing something. Otherwise, I found excellent value in the discussion.

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    2 жыл бұрын

    Plants are covered in the botany series, fungi in the mycology series, and bacteria in the microbiology series. This is the zoology series.

  • @sagaspace
    @sagaspace2 жыл бұрын

  • @TungstenArm
    @TungstenArm2 жыл бұрын

    I searched “chemistry Jesus” on KZread and it took me here

  • @1-800-AUDIOS

    @1-800-AUDIOS

    2 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @ferociousfeind8538
    @ferociousfeind85382 жыл бұрын

    Is there a fundamental difference between paraphyly and polyphyly, or is it just semantics? Because I believe you _could_ construct any paraphyletic group out of a complex arrangement of polyphyla, and you could describe a polyphyletic grouping as a very exclusive paraphyletic grouping I suppose a good way to separate them, without watching the video in case this is already answered, would be "what is easier to describe", between "a monophyletic group PLUS some other monophyletic group" (polyphyly) and "a monophyletic group MINUS some monophyletic subset of (the logical extension of) that group" (paraphyly)

  • @ferociousfeind8538

    @ferociousfeind8538

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mmm, whether or not a non-monophyletic group includes the most recent common ancestor of all included organisms is a good diagnostic trait distinguishing between paraphyly (includes MRCA) and polyphyly (does not include MRCA)

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    @rizkytriramadhanramadhan3832 жыл бұрын

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  • @eliteteamkiller319
    @eliteteamkiller319 Жыл бұрын

    Is there a part 3?

  • @mrwess1927
    @mrwess19272 жыл бұрын

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  • @manannaik1341
    @manannaik13412 жыл бұрын

    Can you explain about psudoscirncr of Ayurveda

  • @ashleyhood9718
    @ashleyhood97182 жыл бұрын

    I love you chemistry jesus

  • @akshattomar6508
    @akshattomar65082 жыл бұрын

    Thank you chemistry Jesus

  • @-JA-
    @-JA-2 жыл бұрын

  • @jamiegallier2106
    @jamiegallier2106Ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @sagaspace
    @sagaspace2 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @qoriakromin9679
    @qoriakromin96792 жыл бұрын

    I do this for the meme: Thank you Chemistry Jesus

  • @baby-vc1ss
    @baby-vc1ss2 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou cladistic Jesus

  • @QT5656
    @QT56562 жыл бұрын

    Lots of great things in this video but I have one nit pick. Historically, I think, the term basal was used to refer to fossil taxa found in older rocks. As you mention, it's since been used to refer to living taxa that are less nested within a phylogenetically hierarchy for avoiding the misleading phrase primitive. However, the phrase basal has now simply become a synonym for "primitive" with all the same baggage. The fact that most people would never refer to Mammalia as the most basal clade of Amniota is evidence of this phenomenon. Their (false) anthropocentric perception of Mammalia as the most advanced amniotes stops them from doing it. "Least nested" is a better phrase because it refers to the shape of the tree in question.

  • @DS127

    @DS127

    Жыл бұрын

    Primitive 1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first. 2. Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity. 3. Original; primary; radical; not derived.

  • @QT5656

    @QT5656

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DS127 you seem to have missed the point.

  • @DS127

    @DS127

    Жыл бұрын

    @@QT5656 Primitive isn't misleading. It has a technical definition that's the antonym of derived.

  • @QT5656

    @QT5656

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@DS127 You *have* missed the point. Primitive is indeed misleading in the context of this video which is discussing taxa in the context of trees and cladograms. As Professor Dave explains at 4:40. ALL animals alive today have been evolving for the same length of time. There are no living animals that represent ancestors. Therefore, it is misleading to refer to any living (extant) taxa as more primitive than another. Individual anatomical traits may be described as primitive relative to other traits and it is possible that some taxa have more traits inferred to be primitive that others. However, *all* living animals are a mixture of primitive and derived anatomical traits. Referring to living taxon as primitive is misleading and leads to circular reasoning when evaluating their anatomical traits: that all or most of their traits are primitive. There are many examples when such assumptions were made and further research showed that these assumptions were incorrect.

  • @DS127

    @DS127

    Жыл бұрын

    @@QT5656 You are correct. I misread you. I blame lack of sleep, skimming your comment, and carelessness. I was talking about possible meanings of the word itself. One could argue that referring to living taxa as basal/primitive is not just misleading, but self contradictory.

  • @nivedvi2716
    @nivedvi27162 жыл бұрын

    I just saw on Instagram a post about you, a screenshot of a comment when someone called you "chemistry Jesus" . He cannot be less wrong

  • @dr.tanishksingh5869
    @dr.tanishksingh58692 жыл бұрын

    Thank you teaching jesus

  • @incitedoubt5375
    @incitedoubt53752 жыл бұрын

    re: calling organisms basal and not primitive- is it justifiable to say that something is indeed less evolved, if it has changed very little since the divergence? it's a strange thought because something could just as easily change to become simpler. but still, it has "evolved more"

  • @6YB0
    @6YB0 Жыл бұрын

    The worm in mollusca looks sus.

  • @davidcalderwood4131
    @davidcalderwood41319 ай бұрын

    If sponges and humans have both been involving for the same time, why are humans so much more complex?

  • @dekallarmigsvartapantern8686
    @dekallarmigsvartapantern86869 ай бұрын

    I don’t understand how these are important to learn? Like sure maybe it’s important to know the names but I don’t understand why we would only look at some of them on the cladogram and call them polophyly

  • @prschuster
    @prschuster2 жыл бұрын

    I get a lot of flack when I call for the inclusion of paraphyletic grades, like Reptiles. Reptiles have so much in common and birds are such a departure from common reptile traits that it makes sense to see them as two distinct classes, but alas, the cladists have taken over the narrative. Of course, polyphyletic groups can never be taxa, lacking a close common ancestor.

  • @prschuster

    @prschuster

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Sage Related means they share a common ancestor and have similar features, but also that they are distinct in some ways as well. The concept of clades tells us that they share a common ancestor with each other that the don't share with any outgroup. The concept of grades tells us that birds have lost certain reptilian traits found in snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodiles and gained special avian traits like wings, beaks and feathers. I guess the trend now is to just include birds as another order of Reptiles rather than having their own status as a class. I can live with that.

  • @prschuster

    @prschuster

    2 жыл бұрын

    Evolution involves both ancestral traits shared by closely related clades and derived traits that are found in descendants. That makes different taxa similar in some ways but different in other ways. It seems to me that clades emphasize common ancestry while evolutionary grades focus on derived traits. Regardless of how we classify organisms, I like to look at both of these views.

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    @Exquailibur Жыл бұрын

    I am a jawed fish

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    @samran39052 жыл бұрын

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    @chimetimepaprika2 жыл бұрын

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    @johnlouiesarosco22 Жыл бұрын

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    @Dr.IanPlect

    Жыл бұрын

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    @crawhey2 жыл бұрын

    Moist

  • @anoopsonawane6223
    @anoopsonawane62232 жыл бұрын

    Came here from a meme ,now studying for the test tomorrow 🥲💀.

  • @PunmasterSTP

    @PunmasterSTP

    2 жыл бұрын

    How'd your test go?

  • @1-800-AUDIOS
    @1-800-AUDIOS2 жыл бұрын

    thank you chemistry jesus 🙏🙏