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. 2002 Dec;201(6):447–464. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2002.00122.x

Table 5.

Summary of qualitative character distributions among taxa

Number of characters unique to:
Homo 17
Pongo 7
Pan 6
Gorilla 3
Number of characters shared by:
Gorilla+Pongo 7
Gorilla+Pan 5
Gorilla+Pongo+Pan 4
Pongo+Pan 3
Homo+Gorilla+Pan 2
Homo+Pan 2
Homo+Gorilla+Pongo 1

This table summarizes the information available from the morphoclines listed in Table 4. Comparisons are entirely phenetic and underscore the patterns of similarity depicted by the phenogram in Fig. 4.