Ayedelotte Archives Box 99, Swarthmore College. Frank Aydellote, Letter to Dr. C. R. Mann, War Department Committee on Education, 1918. Ayedelotte Archives Box 99. Confidential letter to Frank Aydellote. So let me end by telling a tale, extrapolating a biological concept into discussions of society and the multicultural curriculum.
Homology is a word that comes from comparative anatomy and embryology.
Any finger and any toe. The human hand and the bird's wing. Nobody will deny that they're different. Nobody will deny that they're similar. Whether one emphasizes the differences or the similarities between homologous structures is thus a political or aesthetic decision.