Parallelism, Convergence, and Deep Homology in Biology: A Conceptual Proposal
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me8.162Keywords:
development and phylogeny, macroevolutionary tendencies, the Funnel Model, the Hourglass Model, homoplasyAbstract
I examine two notionsof homoplasy, to wit, parallelism and convergence, and pursue my analysis addressing another important phylogenetic notion, that of deep homology. My interest is to contribute to clarify the controversies concerning how these notions are used in comparative morphology, and also whether such notions should continueto be used at all. I will also show that there are some interesting and empirically grounded ways to characterize each of these notions. These characterizations show that there are strong connections between some of the causal factors that direct ontogenetic change and certain macroevolutionary tendencies; in particular, I will mention two of them: (1) the idea that development is like a funnel, and (2) the model of development known as the ‘hourglass model’.
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