Study chart: convergent evolution (IMAGE)

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Study chart: convergent evolution

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Convergent evolution has been tested across smaller groups (orange box), but remains surprisingly untested in distantly related animals (blue box). This work shows that although there are some intriguing similarities between distantly related groups, mostly convergence does not occur.

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Courtesy of Dr. Keegan Melstrom/NHMLAC.

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