BIOLOGY
BIOLOGY
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ISBN: 9781260169614
Author: Raven
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 23.4, Problem 1LO
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To determine: The importance of homoplasy in order to interpret the patterns of evolutionary change.

Introduction: Homoplasy within biology and phylogenetics implies when a feature has achieved or failed individually in distinct lineages throughout evolution. The method is distinctive from homology, which is the association of traits that can be described by common ancestry.

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