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Derived Characteristics Traits Recent Species Evolved Ancestral Trait. 

Derived characteristics are traits in recent species that evolved from ancestral traits, shared by a clade but not by its ancestors.

Características derivadas são traços em espécies recentes que evoluíram de um traço ancestral, compartilhados por um clado mas não pelos seus ancestrais.

Text Derived characteristics are traits in a recent species that evolved from an ancestral trait.  They are shared by a clade, but not by the ancestors of the clade members.

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