A refreshed approach to homology-Prioritizing epistemology over metaphysics.

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Unease with the inclusion of "sameness" in Owen's definition of homology characterizes a substantial part of the literature on this subject, where this term has acquired an increasingly strict metaphysical flavor. Taken for granted the existence of body features that are "the same," their existence has been explained by appealing to universal laws of form, as the product of common ancestry, or in terms of...

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