By the term homology he expresses the unity or identity of character between the bones so answering to one another in different animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

Analogy vs. homology is how biologists draw family trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Categorical denials] Reference

Um, guys, sequence homology is a direct result of the well-understood process of gene duplication and sequence divergence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congratulations are in Order] Reference

Knowledge of homology is certainly very useful, can give us a good idea of the path of descent, and can constrain our hypotheses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

There is more to direct comparisons than protein homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe, Common Descent, & UD] Reference

I'll summarize here a recent paper that strongly supports the idea of homology of the vertebrate and arthropod heart and vascular systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: December 2006 Archives] Reference

However, homology is still a funny word: in the context of proteins and genes, it makes sense only if we don’t think about it too deeply.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference

With the recognition of unity of plan within each group necessarily goes the recognition of what later morphology calls the homology of parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

One of the major evidences for the evolution of man is homology, that is, the similarity of either anatomical or genetic features between species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Again, the singular facts of "homology" are capable of a similar explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

The facts to be considered are the phenomena of "homology," and especially of serial, bilateral, and vertical homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

This kind of homology is also explained by Mr. Spencer as the result of the similarity of conditions affecting the two parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

The word "homology" indicates such a relation between two parts that they may be said in some sense to be "the same," or at least "of similar nature.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

As many readers might know, though, the word "homology," especially when coupled with a novel technique for its determination, is always good for an argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists...in disagreement! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"homology" approach, in which they searched for molecules from eukaryotic organisms that looked like the bacterial tmRNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Serial homology, for instance, was a case of homoplasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The latter animal is a striking example of serial homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

Von Baer had already hinted at this homology in the second volume of his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Hertwig, in a word, reverts to the pre-evolutionary conception of homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Had they been so, this kind of serial homology might be termed "homogenetic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

In the former case the homology is said to be "complete," in the latter "incomplete.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

These passages show that Aristotle had some conception of homology as distinct from analogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Special homology, on the other hand, relates to resemblances between organs in different animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

He distinguished first between general and special homology, in quite a different sense from Owen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Accordingly, form is one of the least important elements to be considered in determining a homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The facts of serial homology seem hardly to have excited the amount of interest they certainly merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

According to this principle, the homology of a part is determined by its position relative to other parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Its applicability to details of geographical distribution; to rudimentary structures; to homology; to mimicry.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

He admits that there exists a real homology between, for instance, the notochord of Vertebrates and that of Ascidians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The concept of homology has thus a value quite independent of any evolutionary interpretation which may be superadded to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

But we have had to do only with a modification, not with a transformation, of the criterion of homology recognised by the anatomists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

This homology is extended to all Arachnids; their first two pairs of appendages, however they may be modified as "false" mandibles and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Organs can be homologous only within the limits of the big groups; there can be no question of homology between members of different types.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Its applicability to details of geographical distribution; to rudimentary structures; to homology; to mimicry, &c. -- Consequent utility of the theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference