homoplasy distribution

[Ricardo Garcia-Sandoval]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Michael Sharkey wrote:

> Does anyone know of a published article where it has been demonstrated that
> homoplasy is not randomly distributed but that it tends to be concentrated
> in a subset of the characters?

In fact homoplasy is not exactly randomly distributed, becouse (like
homology) respond to historical process, and certanly is not concentrated
in a subset of characters.
More about this view about homoplasy are on:

Sanderson, M. & L. Hufford (eds), 1996. Homoplasy: the recurrence of
    similarity in evolution. Academic Press, San Diego.


>
> Dr. Michael J. Sharkey
> Department of Entomology
> S-227 Ag. Science Building N.
> University of Kentucky
> Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0091
> email msharkey at byron.ca.uky.edu
> tel (859)257-9364
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> home page
> http://www.uky.edu/~mjshar0
>

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