He worked on plants and animals and was a great contributor to these ideas of morphology. Goethe was one of the first people who developed this concept in vertebrates as well as in plants because he was besides being the author of Faust and a great poet he was also a great morphologist.
The notion of homology, the ability to compare comparable parts among organisms, goes back to the 1700's. It's the idea that allows you to compare structures in different animals, the kinds of structures that enable you to say that the bone you have here that we call a humerus is a humerus in a human, it's a humerus in a bat or a goat or a bird or a frog, and this is a very old concept. Homology is the central concept of comparative biology. What's homology? Last concept, Your Honor.Ī. Chapter 5 of Pandas attempts to overturn the idea that homology is strong evidence for common ancestry.Ĭreationist misrepresentations of Homology and Analogy
Slide 83: In the final section, Padian turns to homology and analogy, fundamental concepts in comparative biology.
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