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- knuckle-walking evolved independently in the African great apes, which would mean a homoplasic evolution of this locomotor behaviour in gorillas and chimpanzees. However...
- used by Ray Lankester in 1870. The corresponding adjective is either homoplasic or homoplastic. It is derived from the two Ancient Gr**** words ὁμός (homós)...
- questioned, as it is much earlier than the type species and it is based on homoplasic and plesiomorphic characteristics inherited from a common ancestor, so...
- Eusuchia, but its presence in Brillanceausuchus suggests that the trait is homoplasic, thus making the evolution of the position of the choana within crocodilians...