{"id":7266,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/analogy_-biology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:01","slug":"analogy_-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/analogy_-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogy (biology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1843, the comparative anatomist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu\/history\/owen.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu\/history\/owen.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Owen <\/a>(1804-1892) introduced the term into evolutionary biology as he did with homology. &nbsp;It means similarity in function, but not structure, due to convergent evolution. &nbsp;Thus, while the wings of birds and bats do not stem from a common ancestor, they evolved conversantly to have the same function (viz., flight) based on different structures (viz., a bird&#8217;s wing consists of feathers as against skin in the case of a bat).<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"analogy_-as_a_trope-\">Analogy (as a trope)<\/a>, <a href=\"comparative_method\">Comparative method<\/a>, <a href=\"convergent_evolution\">Convergent evolution<\/a>, Homology<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1843, the comparative anatomist Richard Owen (1804-1892) introduced the term into evolutionary biology as he did with homology. &nbsp;It means similarity in function, but not structure, due to convergent evolution. &nbsp;Thus, while the wings of birds and bats do not stem from a common ancestor, they evolved conversantly to have the same function (viz., &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/analogy_-biology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Analogy (biology)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}