PRIMITIVE
Primitive
Primitive in the sense most relevant to phylogenetics means resembling evolutionary ancestors of living things and in particular resembling them in the nature of their anatomy and behaviour. For example, one might regard a flatworm, which has no legs, wings, or image-forming eyes, as more primitive than a beetle, that in its more advanced morphology has all these things. The term "primitive" might suggest simplicity, but it does not imply it; many "advanced" organisms have lost complex structures that were present in some of their ancestral forms. For example, the jaws of mammals are simpler than those of their ancestral ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Primitive (phylogenetics)
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primitive
Noun
- An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to .
- A member of a primitive society.
- A simple-minded person.
- A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- Crude, obsolete.
- Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
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