Hypodigm Definition

noun

(taxonomy, anthropology) A sample from which the characters of a population are to be inferred.

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Singular:
hypodigm
Plural:
hypodigms

Origin of Hypodigm

  • Coined in 1940 by George Gaylord Simpson, Types in Modern Taxonomy, published in American Journal of Science #238, p. 418.

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