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Polarisation is a term used in cladistics to “refer to the imposition of direction onto character state change or character transformation. A character is said to be polarized polarised when the [ancestral, primitive] state has been distinguished from the apomorphic [derived] state” (Kitching et al. 1998², 48 – see also the glossary, ibidem, p. 213).

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