CONCEPT OF HOMOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
CONCEPT OF HOMOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
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DOI：
10.1159/000125482
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发表时间：
1970-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
HODOS, W
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作者：
CAMPBELL, CB;HODOS, W
传统上比较解剖学的主要任务之一是同源性的确定。为了进行有意义的比较，人们必须能够在所研究的物种中识别出可比的结构。指出哪些是可比较的结构的概念是同源性的概念。然而，术语“同源性”的生物学意义在动物学文献中一直是相当大的讨论和分歧的主题。许多比较神经解剖学家似乎没有意识到这一争议及其在比较神经解剖学中使用术语“同源性”的含义。本文的目的是描述“人属学”一词在系统生物学中的起源，并指出目前在系统生物学家中流行的一些理论立场。然后，我们将描述比较神经解剖学家将该术语应用于神经系统的一些方式，陈述我们对这一争议的立场，并提出一些识别同源性的标准。我们认识到，在可预见的将来，这一争议可能不会得到解决，使这一领域的所有工作人员都完全满意。然而，我们希望通过提出我们所看到的问题并激发讨论，我们可以找到广泛的共识领域，以便未来的同源性问题将更少地关注语义而更多地关注数据。比较神经解剖学领域对系统生物学的广泛领域具有潜在的重要贡献。为了
One of the major tasks of comparative anatomy has traditionally been the determination of homology. In order to make meaningful compari sons, one must be able to recognize comparable structures in those spe cies examined. The concept that indicates which are the comparable struc tures is the concept of homology. However, the biological meaning of the term ‘homology’has been the subject of considerable discussion and disa greement in the zoological literature. A number of comparative neuroana tomists have seemingly been unaware of the controversy and its implica tions for the use of the term ‘homology’in comparative ncuroanatomy. The purpose of this paper is to describe the origins of the term ‘homo logy’in systematic biology and to indicate some of the current theoretical positions prevalent among systematic biologists. We will then describe some of the ways that comparative neuroanatomists have applied the term to the nervous system, state our own position on this controversy, and suggest some criteria for the recognition of homology. We appreciate that the controversy may not, in the foreseeable future, be settled to the complete satisfaction of all workers in this field. However, we hope that by setting forth the issues as we see them and stimulating discussion, we may find broad areas of agreement so that future questions of homology will be concerned less with semantics and more with data. The field of comparative neuroanatomy is potentially a source of sig nificant contributions to the broad field of systematic biology. In order