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    How does a biologist determine the polarity of a character change?

    The biologist looks at the state of the character in an outgroup, an organism that is outside the clade for which the phylogeny is being developed. The polarity of the character change is from the state of the character in the outgroup to the second state.

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Source:  OpenStax, Concepts of biology univ. of west georgia. OpenStax CNX. Jan 03, 2014 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11612/1.1
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