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Homology is one of the central concepts in biological systematics, irrespective of the”systematic schools”, be it phenetic, cladistic or evolutionary (for a discussion of these terms see, for instance, Felsenstein, 1983). That hypotheses on phylogenetic relations should always be based on homologous characters (e.g. Rieppel, 1980) is almost a truism.
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Erdelen, W. (1989). The Classification of Organisms — The Hurdle of Homology —. In: Optiz, O. (eds) Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75040-3_36
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