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Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Homoplastic characters are those same set of characters that are shared by two different groups that do not have any evolutionary relationship.

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