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What does homoplasy mean?

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Noun
  1. (evolutionary theory) A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
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Homoplasy was common in hominin evolution.
Furthermore, the effect of homoplasy on measures of population subdivisions is not simple.
This finding suggests a high level of homoplasy, resulting from a high level of parallel and convergent mutations that could be the result of recombination events.
It is through cladistic analysis that we are able to tell homoplasy from synapomorphy.
Their article provides a useful review of evidence for considerable evolutionary homology and homoplasy in the first two dimensions.
To counter these problems Spemann reintroduced Lankester's original distinction between homogeny and homoplasy.

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