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Sorting Homology from Analogy• When constructing a phylogeny, systematistsneed to distinguish whether a similarity is theresult of homology or analogy• Homology is similarity due to shared ancestry• Analogy is similarity due to convergentevolutionCopyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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