Biology as Poetry: Evolutionary Biology

Bacteriophage Ecology Group

Homoplasy

Product of convergent evolution, also known as an analogy.

Note that "homo" means "same" while "plasy" approximately means "growth" as in "plasia". Homoplasy thus means, as derived from Greek, "same growth", which can be interpreted as "similar phenotype".

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