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Synonyms for stemma

a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work

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an eye having a single lens

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This record became the source of a stemma of "uncontaminated" versions.
Even the records in the search-free stemma claiming to have descended from GJDL (e.g., item 4) differ in content and wording.
However, despite the dominance of Li Xian's "standard" edition, the variant "melon" did survive in a stemma of SSXY.
(26) This phenomenon best illustrates the difference between a stemma with a copy-text and one without a copy-text.
What the biologists did not have to confront, because similarity software simply erases it, is the problem of conflict that arises when a source wants to be at more than one point at once in a Lachmannian stemma or intermediation spectrum.
This decision is however justified by a precise and convincing study of the different stemmas involved and the result is on the whole very scholarly and impressive.