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Newer technologies can be used to help distinguish homologies from analogies.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Our analyses begin to integrate macroscopic information about morphology, organismal physiology, and descriptive embryology of these deuterostomes with genomic information about gene homologies, gene arrangements, gene novelties and non-coding elements.

From Nature • Nov. 17, 2015

In addition to their morphological similarity, molecular analyses have revealed similar sequence homologies in their DNA.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Paleontologists, for example, have brought ambiguous homologies into sharp focus with the discovery of transitional fossils.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2010

We find in distinct languages striking homologies due to community of descent, and analogies due to a similar process of 60formation.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles