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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

refer to: Convergent boundary, a type of plate tectonic boundary Convergent (continued fraction) Convergent evolution Convergent series Convergent may also...

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

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...

(11 February 1999). "Ultrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns". Current Biology. 9 (3): 109–15. Bibcode:1999CBio...

will often develop similar physical features, a process known as convergent evolution. Both sharks and dolphins have similar body forms, yet are only distantly...

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

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

distantly related animals. Some of these examples are considered convergent evolution, while others most likely shared a common ancestor that possessed...

reflexes are understood to have evolved multiple times independently (convergent evolution). Computer science allows the iteration of self-changing complex...

distances, can result in similar evolutionary developments, i.e. convergent evolution. Penguins are superbly adapted to aquatic life. Their wings have...

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

and morphologically similar to canids in several elements due to convergent evolution: both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that...

various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution. The typical colony consists of one or more egg-laying queens, numerous...

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...