CONVERGENT VS PARALLEL EVOLUTION. “Biologists often distinguish ‘convergent’ from ‘parallel’ evolution. This distinction usually assumes that when a given phenotype evolves, the underlying genetic mechanisms are different in distantly related species (convergent) but similar in closely related species (parallel).”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022