Article
Biological hierarchies and the concept of homology.
Brain, behavior and evolution - 1 Jan 1991
Striedter G F, Northcutt R G
Abstract excerpt
Although most biologists agree that homology must be defined in terms of common ancestry, the details of this definition remain controversial. We review briefly the disagreements concerning the formal definition of homology and the methodology used to establish specific cases of homology. Our principal focus, however, is a third area of disagreement: whether morphological characters can be homologous even if...
Topics
- Animal Communication
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Biological Evolution
- Genotype
- Grasshoppers
- Nervous System
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
- Phylogeny
- Species Specificity
- Synaptic Transmission