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Homoplasy meaning

  1. A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
  2. A correspondence between variants in different versions of texts acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.

Using Homoplasy

  • The main meaning on this page is: A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence. | A correspondence between variants in different versions of texts acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
  • In the example corpus, homoplasy often appears in combinations such as: of homoplasy, homoplasy and, homoplasy is.

Context around Homoplasy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

data 1×

Often after:

excess 1× elsevier 1× index 1× currently 1×

Sentence patterns with Homoplasy

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

amount of homoplasy but also 1× homoplasy and the 1× homoplasy excess ratios 1× however homoplasy is often 1× in homoplasy elsevier 153 1× levels of homoplasy in phylogenetic 1× measure of homoplasy currently available 1× pp the homoplasy index hi 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

homoplasy and the 1× homoplasy excess ratios 1× however homoplasy is 1× if a bird 1× in homoplasy elsevier 1× of course the 1×

Common sentence endings:

choice among cladograms 1× explain the tree 1× homoplasy currently available 1× hypothesis of relationships 1× its homoplastic distribution 1× most parsimonious cladogram 1×

Words around Homoplasy

Just before it in the word index:

homoplastic 4 homophonous 8 homophonic 7 homophones 21 homophone 8 homophobic 273

Just after it in the word index:

homoploid 2 homopolar 2 homopolymer 4 homopolymers 2 homos 7 homosalate 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 12 abacos 12 abboud 12 abdelkader 12 abdomens 12 abdou 12

Corpus analysis for Homoplasy

  • In this selection, "homoplasy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, data, excess, elsevier and index stand out and add context to how "homoplasy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include amount of homoplasy but also and homoplasy and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "homoplasy" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with homoplasy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Random data, homoplasy and information. (5 words)

Homoplasy and the choice among cladograms. (6 words)

The HER is presented as the best measure of homoplasy currently available. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

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. (39 words)

Retention index The retention index (RI) was proposed as an improvement of the CI "for certain applications" citation This metric also purports to measure of the amount of homoplasy, but also measures how well synapomorphies explain the tree. (38 words)

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. (32 words)

Example sentences (9)

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

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

Homoplasy and the choice among cladograms.

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.

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.

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.

Random data, homoplasy and information.

Retention index The retention index (RI) was proposed as an improvement of the CI "for certain applications" citation This metric also purports to measure of the amount of homoplasy, but also measures how well synapomorphies explain the tree.

The HER is presented as the best measure of homoplasy currently available.

Common combinations with homoplasy

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "homoplasy" in a sentence?
An example: "Homoplasy Excess Ratios: new indices for measuring levels of homoplasy in phylogenetic systematics and a critique of the Consistency Index." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "homoplasy" from authentic English texts.
What does "homoplasy" mean?
Homoplasy means: A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
How many example sentences with "homoplasy" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "homoplasy", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.