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. 2009 Jun 15;106(Suppl 1):10048–10055. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0901109106

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7.

A simplified example in which the camera eye, the cup eye, and the complete absence of an eye are distributed across the tips of a phylogenetic tree. Parsimony considerations dictate that the best reconstruction of ancestral character states is that A1 had no eyes, A2 had a cup eye, and A3 had a camera eye.