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Correspondence between parts or organs arising from evolutionary convergence.
HOMOPLASY - Homoplasy in biological systematics is when a trait has been gained or lost independently in separate lineages during evolution. This convergent evol...
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Correspondence between parts or organs arising from evolutionary convergence. |
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Homoplasy in biological systematics is when a trait has been gained or lost independently in separate lineages during evolution. This convergent evolution leads to species independently sharing a trait that is different from the trait inferred to have been present in their common ancestor. * Homoplasy is identified by the observation that a given feature cannot be explained parsimoniously on a preferred phylogenetic hypothesis - that is, the feature in question arises (or disappears) at more than one point on the tree. It is the cladistic interpretation of the evolutionary phenomenon of convergent gain or loss of the feature. For example, the absence of wings in fleas is a homoplastic loss (wings are also lost in members of many other insect groups, including beetles, flies, moths, ants, etc.), and the presence of tympanic membranes on geometrid and noctuid moths represents two separate origins (on the abdomen in the former, and the thorax in the latter), probably evolved in response to |