phylassein
Phylassein is a term that has appeared in some discussions of phylogenetics as a way to refer to hypothetical molecular or other biological features whose evolutionary histories would reliably reflect lineage relationships. The concept is not part of standard nomenclature and does not have a formally established definition in mainstream literature.
In these discussions, phylassein is presented as an umbrella notion for markers or signal patterns that could,
Some authors use phylassein as a pedagogical label for thought experiments about how lineage information might
In practice, researchers more commonly study established concepts such as phylogenetic markers, synapomorphies, and phylogenomics to