For application to characters, see ordered . Anagenesis See phylesis .
Analogy See homoplasy .
Character Any heritable attribute of organisms that varies among terminal taxa, and so is useful in phylogenetic reconstruction. Character states Subdivisions of the variation among terminal taxa. Consensus A class of methods used to estimate the amount of agreement among incongruent or partially congruent trees. Usually represented as a tree that is less resolved than any of the input trees. A consensus tree is not an hypothesis of evolutionary history, and must not be confused with a phylogenetic tree.