Aboitiz F
Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Acta Biotheor. 1988;37(1):27-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00050805.
The meaning of the word 'homology' has changed. From being a comparative concept in pre-Darwinian times, it became a historical concept, strictly signifying a common evolutionary origin for either anatomical structures or genes. This historical understanding of homology is not useful in classification; therefore I propose a return to its pre-Darwinain meaning.
“同源性”一词的含义已经发生了变化。从在达尔文之前的时代作为一个比较概念，它变成了一个历史概念，严格表示解剖结构或基因的共同进化起源。这种对同源性的历史理解在分类中并无用处；因此我提议回归到它在达尔文之前的含义。
