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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common than transversions. The concept encompasses both convergent evolution and parallel evolution; it can be used to describe the observation of similar...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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of identical haplotypes in separate populations, through either convergent evolution or random chance. Haplotype convergence is rare, due to the sheer...
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Electric fish (redirect from Evolution of electric fish)
electric field to remain stable for electrolocation. There has been convergent evolution in these features among the mormyrids and gymnotids. Electric fish...
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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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refer to: Convergent boundary, a type of plate tectonic boundary Convergent (continued fraction) Convergent evolution Convergent series Convergent may also...
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Forelimb (section Evolution of forelimbs)
lobe-finned fish. However, another distinct process may be identified, convergent evolution, by which the wings of birds, bats, and extinct pterosaurs evolved...
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vertebrates. Dorsal fins have evolved independently several times through convergent evolution adapting to marine environments, so the fins are not all homologous...
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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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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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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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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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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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Sand lance (section Convergent evolution)
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...
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Mobbing (animal behavior) (section Evolution)
distantly related organisms. This approach relies on the existence of convergent evolution, where distantly related organisms evolve the same trait due to similar...
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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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are multiple mechanisms across different species, an example of convergent evolution.[citation needed] Some hypotheses contend that the interdigitation...
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