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Definition of Homoplasies
1. homoplasy [n] - See also: homoplasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homoplasies
Literary usage of Homoplasies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"Recombination is inferred if homoplasies are indicated involving either mutational
classes regarded as completely parsimonious (eg, indels) or if the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"These may be called heterogeneous homoplasies, but it is necessary to recognize
the existence of homogeneous homoplasies, ..."
3. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"These phenomena give rise to an enormous number of analogies (homoplasies,
parallelisms, convergences) not only of structure but of entire types, ..."
4. Evolution and the War by Peter Chalmers Mitchell (1915)
"... resemblances due to the possession of a common hereditary material, and
homoplasies, resemblances imposed on different hereditary material. ..."
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