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Homogeny   Listen
noun
Homogeny  n.  
1.
Joint nature. (Obs.)
2.
(Biol.) The correspondence of common descent; a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.






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... they have a single representative in a common ancestor," should be called homogenous(p. 36). All other resemblances were to be called homoplastic. "Homoplasy includes all cases of close resemblance of form which are not traceable to homogeny, all details of agreement not homogenous, in structures which are broadly homogenous, as well as in structures having no genetic affinity" (p. 41). Serial homology, for instance, was a ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell



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