Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates...

Convergent evolution—the repeated evolution of similar traits in multiple lineages which all ancestrally lack the trait—is rife in nature, as illustrated...

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...

common than transversions. The concept encompasses both convergent evolution and parallel evolution; it can be used to describe the observation of similar...

functionality. Contention exists on whether this is truly convergent evolution or parallel evolution. Unlike the vertebrate camera eye, the cephalopods' form...

limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes...

byproduct of convergent evolution. Although there are no known humanoid species outside the genus Homo, the theory of convergent evolution speculates that...

"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...

sloths an example of convergent evolution to an arboreal lifestyle, "one of the most striking examples of convergent evolution known among mammals"....

Similarities which have no adaptive relevance cannot be explained by convergent evolution, and therefore they provide compelling support for universal common...

(2008). "Charting Evolution's Trajectory: Using Molluscan Eye Diversity to Understand Parallel and Convergent Evolution". Evolution: Education and Outreach...

family Talpidae with their powerful front limbs, form an example of convergent evolution, both developing adaptations for burrowing. Adults of most species...

Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term...

humans, as are their responses to treatment and resultant outcomes. Convergent evolution is when distantly related species independently evolve similar solutions...

of identical haplotypes in separate populations, through either convergent evolution or random chance. Haplotype convergence is rare, due to the sheer...

improve gas exchange around the fish's eggs in its nest. Through convergent evolution, lungfishes have evolved internal nostrils similar to the tetrapods'...

vertebrates. Dorsal fins have evolved independently several times through convergent evolution adapting to marine environments, so the fins are not all homologous...

selection of behavioural skills provides a typical environment for convergent evolution. There is a wide range of shared general and specific social skills...

electric field to remain stable for electrolocation. There has been convergent evolution in these features among the mormyrids and gymnotids. Electric fish...

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...

lobe-finned fish. However, another distinct process may be identified, convergent evolution, by which the wings of birds, bats, and extinct pterosaurs evolved...

of evolution and is distinct from convergent evolution and parallel evolution, although it does share similarities with the other types of evolution. Convergent...

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...

in reptilian venom production. This appears to be an example of convergent evolution of venom genes from existing immune system genes (defensins). A unique...

distantly related organisms. This approach relies on the existence of convergent evolution, where distantly related organisms evolve the same trait due to similar...

A sand lance or sandlance is a ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ammodytidae. Several species of sand lances are commonly known as "sand eels", though...

striking example of convergent evolution. There is some dispute as to whether this smaller Euungulata is a cladistic (evolution-based) group, or merely...

viviparous modes of reproduction; selective pressures have led to its convergent evolution more than 150 times among the vertebrates alone. There is no one...

current niches. Apart from undergoing convergent evolution with plants, species of kelp have undergone convergent evolution within their own phylogeny that...

are multiple mechanisms across different species, an example of convergent evolution.[citation needed] Some hypotheses contend that the interdigitation...