Of homologies and pregnancies: how a conceptual error is perpetuated in scientific literature

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  • Diego González-Halphen Mexico

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homologies, pregnancies, mistake, scientific literature

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One of the most abused terms in biological scientific literature is the word ‘homology’, whose erroneous use is widely spread. We often find phrases that contain the terms ‘percentage of homology’ or ‘highly homologous’, or even ‘low homology’, which seem to give the word ‘homology’ a quantitative value, to which a numerical value can be assigned

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2005-03-20

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González-Halphen, D. (2005). Of homologies and pregnancies: how a conceptual error is perpetuated in scientific literature. Encuentros En La Biología, (102), 7–8. Retrieved from https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18791