Is convergence more than an analogy? Homoplasy and its implications for macroevolutionary predictability

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-578

  Powell, Russell ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint; Contingency; Convergence; Homoplasy; Macroevolution; Parallelism; Screening off

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION;

EID: 34547570536     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-006-9057-3     Document Type: Article

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