Parallelism, deep homology, and evo-devo

• Published in: Evolution & development Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 29 - 33
• Main Author: Hall, Brian K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2012
• Subjects: Animals; Biological Evolution; Developmental Biology; Embryonic Development; Evolution & development; Genotype; Genotype & phenotype; Phenotype; Sequence Homology

SUMMARY Parallelism has been the subject of a number of recent studies that have resulted in reassessment of the term and the process. Parallelism has been aligned with homology leaving convergence as the only case of homoplasy, regarded as a transition between homologous and convergent characters,...