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Robert W Scotland1

  • 1Department of Plant Sciences, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. robert.scotland@plants.ox.ac.uk

Evolution & Development
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Parallel and convergent evolution definitions are often unclear. This study proposes that all homoplasy is convergence, with genotypic homoplasy termed parallelism, clarifying evolutionary relationships.

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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular evolution

Background:

  • The terms parallel and convergent evolution are frequently used but often lack precise definitions.
  • Existing literature presents overlapping, imprecise, and contradictory meanings, particularly regarding phenotype and genotype.
  • Previous studies often inferred evolutionary hypotheses from limited data, leading to ambiguity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To clarify the distinction between parallel and convergent evolution.
  • To propose a unified framework for understanding homoplasy in evolutionary biology.
  • To re-evaluate the relationship between genotypic and phenotypic evolution.

Main Methods:

  • Review of four criteria for distinguishing parallelism from convergence.
  • Analysis of existing evolutionary literature and emerging examples of genetic traits.
  • Conceptual framework development based on homoplasy and its relation to genotype and phenotype.

Main Results:

  • All reviewed criteria for distinguishing parallelism from convergence were found incompatible with single propositions of homoplasy.
  • Homoplasy is broadly equivalent to convergence, encompassing both phenotypic and genotypic changes.
  • Genotypic homoplasy is defined as parallelism, analogous to convergence in molecular data.

Conclusions:

  • Phenotypic homoplasy is convergence; genotypic homoplasy is parallelism.
  • Parallelism is not distinct from convergence but rather a molecular-level explanation for convergent phenotypes.
  • Understanding genotypic parallelism is key to explaining the molecular mechanisms underlying convergent evolution.