homoplasy

Noun

Meaning

See Homogeny.

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If a bird, bat, and a winged insect were scored for the character, "presence of wings", a homoplasy would be introduced into the dataset, and this could potentially confound the analysis, possibly resulting in a false hypothesis of relationships. Source: Internet

However, homoplasy is often not evident from inspection of the character itself (as in DNA sequence, for example), and is then detected by its incongruence (unparsimonious distribution) on a most-parsimonious cladogram. Source: Internet

Homoplasy Excess Ratios: new indices for measuring levels of homoplasy in phylogenetic systematics and a critique of the Consistency Index. Source: Internet

In Homoplasy, Elsevier, 153–188 pp. The homoplasy index (HI) is simply 1 CI. Source: Internet

Of course, the only reason a homoplasy is recognizable in the first place is because there are other characters that imply a pattern of relationships that reveal its homoplastic distribution. Source: Internet

Random data, homoplasy and information. Source: Internet

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