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Plasticity and constraints in development and evolution.

The Journal of experimental zoology - 15 Apr 2000

Hodin J

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Morphological similarities between organisms may be due to either homology or homoplasy. Homologous structures arise by common descent from an ancestral form, whereas homoplasious structures are independently derived in the respective lineages. The finding that similar ontogenetic mechanisms underlie the production of the similar structures in both lineages is not sufficient evidence of homology, as such...

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