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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species. For instance, in primate phylogeny, postcranial traits (bony traits of the body, not the head) are usually useless because we can’t link teeth to bodies in most cases, and the teeth drive the taxonomy (though there are some recent exceptions ).

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