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I bet this is crazy common, where vastly different species have similar characteristics. What animal characteristics exhibit convergent evolution? * Wings in
by jvanderbot 5y ago
I bet this is crazy common, where vastly different species have similar characteristics.
What animal characteristics exhibit convergent evolution?
* Wings in bats / birds, for one.
* Tails and fins in swimming mammals vs fish.
* Eyes? Cephalopods?
- agumonkey 5y agoThat's one big question I have. Instead of inheritance tree it's more like curved space tissue where anything that lives in a similar pit will evolve similar trait.
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- bradrn 5y agoSure, it’s pretty common, and it never ceases to amaze me. But what I find particularly interesting about treehood is that it’s just so unexpected: I would never have expected that palm trees, aloes and gum trees (to take two random examples) not only both independently evolved from unrelated nontrees, but also evolved completely different ways of structuring themselves to do so, to end up with practically indistinguishable results. (Yes, I know they can be distinguished, but it takes some practice and still isn’t obvious.)
- infogulch 5y agoiirc crabs have evolved independently half a dozen times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation