• Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response...
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    convergence is divergent evolution, where related species evolve different traits. Convergent evolution is similar to parallel evolution, which occurs when...
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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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    Sloth (redirect from Evolution of sloths)
    related families, and are thought to have evolved their morphology via parallel evolution from terrestrial ancestors. Besides the extant species, many species...
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    functionality. Contention exists on whether this is truly convergent evolution or parallel evolution. Unlike the vertebrate camera eye, the cephalopods' form as...
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  • than transversions. The concept encompasses both convergent evolution and parallel evolution; it can be used to describe the observation of similar repeating...
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    conditions. There is an extensive list of genes showing signatures of parallel evolution in dogs and humans. This has led to the study of the coevolution of...
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    genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution, such as sexual selection, genetic drift, and...
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    Edgar M.; Schumer, Molly; Andolfatto, Peter (2012-09-28). "Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community". Science. 337 (6102): 1634–1637. Bibcode:2012Sci...
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    (September 2017). "Mutational Biases Influence Parallel Adaptation". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (9): 2163–2172. doi:10.1093/molbev/msx180. PMC 5850294...
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  • In biology, parallel speciation is a type of speciation where there is repeated evolution of reproductively isolating traits via the same mechanisms occurring...
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    Recurring cultural, political, and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and...
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  • 2017 episode, "The Doctor Falls", explains the different origins as parallel evolution, due to the inevitability of humans and human-like species upgrading...
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    arrangement structures since the early 1920s, indicating a case of parallel evolution of styles rather than a simple transference from jazz to bossa nova...
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  • Wu, Hong (2013-05-14). "The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans". Nature Communications. 4: 1860. Bibcode:2013NatCo...
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    antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution. It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During...
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    threespine sticklebacks make them an ideal organism for the study of parallel evolution. There is a sculpture in Kronstadt dedicated to stickleback, which...
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    the American cheetah developed cheetah-like characteristics through parallel evolution, but it is most closely related to Puma and not to the modern cheetah...
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  • gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...
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    ISBN 978-0-415-93919-5. Kavitha Jayakrishnan (2011), Dancing Architecture: the parallel evolution of Bharatanātyam and South Indian Architecture, MA Thesis, Awarded...
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  • Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts...
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  • Many scientists and philosophers of science have described evolution as fact and theory, a phrase which was used as the title of an article by paleontologist...
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    African mountains are an exceptional example of parallel or convergent evolution and repeated convergent evolution between these two groups; providing evidence...
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    change made them look very similar to modern elephants, an example of parallel evolution. During the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, the diversity of gomphotheres...
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    Kraft, Morgan; Adams, Linda B; Lynch, Vincent J (8 December 2022). "Parallel evolution of reduced cancer risk and tumor suppressor duplications in Xenarthra"...
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  • Parallelism (redirect from ParallelIsm)
    computation Parallel evolution, the independent emergence of a similar trait in different unrelated species Parallel (geometry), the property of parallel lines...
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  • Red Queen hypothesis (category Evolution of the biosphere)
    protagonists M. xanthus (predator) and E. coli (prey) in which a parallel evolution of both species can be observed through genomic and phenotypic modifications...
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  • Clarendon Press, 1996. pp. 1189, 1939. Pierre Jolivet Insects and plants: parallel evolution and adaptations (1986), p. 33: "(b) Examples of Xenophily. Conversely...
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  • He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are...
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    seen that the gular pouch is either plesiomorphic or was acquired by parallel evolution. The orangutan is the only known great ape to have this characteristic...
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