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Definition of Homoplasy
1. n. See Homogeny.
Definition of Homoplasy
1. Noun. A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homoplasy
1. [n -SIES]
Medical Definition of Homoplasy
1. Organs or other bodily structures within different species which resemble each other and have the same functions, but which did not have a common ancestral origin and development. Instead, the parts arose via convergent evolution and are thus analogies. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homoplasy
Literary usage of Homoplasy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... and thus result in the independent evolution of similar types in widely-separated
regions under the law of parallelism or homoplasy. ..."
2. Convergence in Evolution by Arthur Willey (1911)
"CHAPTER V MIMICRY AND homoplasy THE term convergence is applied to resemblances
amongst animals which are not due to direct relationship or genetic affinity ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1877)
"Thus Mr. Jhering, appropriating to himself the doctrine and the term " homoplasy,"
has suggested that, in the group of the Mollusca (as usually recognised ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"Edmund B. Wilson, pointed out to me that such cases were almost exactly covered
by the original definition of the word "homoplasy" by Lankester ('70, p. ..."
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