Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates...
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Convergent evolution—the repeated evolution of similar traits in multiple lineages which all ancestrally lack the trait—is rife in nature, as illustrated...
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Wayback Machine Zhang, J. and Kumar, S. 1997. Detection of convergent and parallel evolution at the amino acid sequence level Archived 2016-03-03 at the...
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Cephalopod eye (section Convergent evolution)
functionality. Contention exists on whether this is truly convergent evolution or parallel evolution. Unlike the vertebrate camera eye, the cephalopods' form...
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Sloth (redirect from Evolution of sloths)
sloths an example of convergent evolution to an arboreal lifestyle, "one of the most striking examples of convergent evolution known among mammals"....
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Snake (redirect from Snake evolution)
limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes...
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Humanoid (section In theoretical convergent evolution)
byproduct of convergent evolution. Although there are no known humanoid species outside the genus Homo, the theory of convergent evolution speculates that...
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Cephalopod (section Convergent evolution)
(2008). "Charting Evolution's Trajectory: Using Molluscan Eye Diversity to Understand Parallel and Convergent Evolution". Evolution: Education and Outreach...
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Domestication of the dog (redirect from Evolution of the dog)
humans, as are their responses to treatment and resultant outcomes. Convergent evolution is when distantly related species independently evolve similar solutions...
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Common descent (section Convergent evolution)
Similarities which have no adaptive relevance cannot be explained by convergent evolution, and therefore they provide compelling support for universal common...
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Carcinisation (category Convergent evolution)
Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term...
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Mole cricket (section Convergent evolution)
family Talpidae with their powerful front limbs, form an example of convergent evolution, both developing adaptations for burrowing. Adults of most species...
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Human skin color (redirect from Evolution of skin pigmentation)
"Genetic Evidence for the Convergent Evolution of Light Skin in Europeans and East Asians". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24 (3): 710–22. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl203...
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Dire wolf (redirect from Evolution of the dire wolf)
similarity between dire wolves and gray wolves was concluded to be due to convergent evolution. Members of the wolf-like canines are known to hybridize with each...
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selection of behavioural skills provides a typical environment for convergent evolution. There is a wide range of shared general and specific social skills...
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Ungulate (redirect from Ungulate evolution)
striking example of convergent evolution. There is some dispute as to whether this smaller Euungulata is a cladistic (evolution-based) group, or merely...
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between the prairie falcon and the hierofalcons are a good example of convergent evolution, with the prairie falcon and similar looking and behaving Old World...
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Hyena (redirect from Evolution of hyenas)
and morphologically similar to canids in several elements due to convergent evolution: both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that...
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in reptilian venom production. This appears to be an example of convergent evolution of venom genes from existing immune system genes (defensins). A unique...
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Halteres (section Convergent evolution)
(11 February 1999). "Ultrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns". Current Biology. 9 (3): 109–15. Bibcode:1999CBio...
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of evolution and is distinct from convergent evolution and parallel evolution, although it does share similarities with the other types of evolution. Convergent...
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refer to: Convergent boundary, a type of plate tectonic boundary Convergent (continued fraction) Convergent evolution Convergent series Convergent may also...
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will often develop similar physical features, a process known as convergent evolution. Both sharks and dolphins have similar body forms, yet are only distantly...
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Rabbit (redirect from Evolution of rabbits)
Similarities between rabbits and rodents were once attributed to convergent evolution, but studies in molecular biology have found a common ancestor between...
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Megamouth shark (section Taxonomy and evolution)
sharks, even the lamniform basking shark, making it an example of convergent evolution. The appearance of the megamouth is distinctive, but little else...
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odd-toed ungulates Genome diversity and karyotype evolution of mammals List of examples of convergent evolution in mammals Juramaia Rougier, Guillermo W.; Martinelli...
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Golden mantella (section Convergent Evolution)
the golden mantel, comes from the Latin rubra, red. Convergent evolution is the similar evolution of multiple species found in different habitats. The...
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Viviparity (redirect from Evolution of viviparity)
viviparous modes of reproduction; selective pressures have led to its convergent evolution more than 150 times among the vertebrates alone. There is no one...
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current niches. Apart from undergoing convergent evolution with plants, species of kelp have undergone convergent evolution within their own phylogeny that...
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