"Homoplasy" Quotes from Famous Books
... with no genetic affinity, or only a remote one, as the homological relation between the chambers of the heart of a bat and those of a {159} bird, or the similar teeth of the thylacine and the dog before spoken of. For this relationship Mr. Bay Lankester has proposed the term "homoplasy." ... — On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart |