Associations to the word «Homoplasy»

Wiktionary

HOMOPLASY, noun. A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope