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puszta , puszta Hungarian grassland, similar to the North American prairie.
puszta Hungarian grassland, similar to the N. American prairie. Similarity Coefficient , similarity coefficient Any measure of the similarity of two samples. In ecological work the similarity index devised in 1920 by H. A.Gleason has been… Analogous Variation , analogous variation Those features with similar functions which have developed independently in unrelated taxonomic groups, in response to a similar… Convergent Evolution , Convergent evolution is the process by which unrelated or distantly related organisms evolve similar adaptations. Organisms displaying these similari… Equifinality , equifinality The theory that the members of morphologically similar land-forms may each have been produced by a different process or sequence of proc… Homoplasy , homoplasy The similarity of a particular character in two different, yet often related, groups of organisms that is not the result of common ancestry…
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