Re: Genitive relationships (WAS: Construct States)

Sally Caves wrote:

> You can start seeing similarities
> all over the place.
You sure can.  The trick is sorting the homologous (common descent)
from the merely analogous (independent invention or borrowing).
Bat wings are homologous with human hands, but merely analogous
to bird wings, to say nothing of insect wings.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)