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These differences are not, however, an accident of disciplinary separation or a case ofparallelevolution, but have come about for very good reasons.
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A less parsimonious theory would have to argue that there wasparallelevolutionin geographically separate populations.
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One plausible argument forparallelevolutioncan be made based on the landscape.
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These findings are relevant to understanding cortical and thalamic development, as well as for trying to understand theirparallelevolution.
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Thus, while apparently rejecting inter-species transmutation, he advocated "parallelevolution" and rejected essentialist doctrines of special creation.
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The widespread occurrence of convergent orparallelevolutionsuggests that under certain conditions similar evolutionary trajectories are arrived at independently.
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Structural optimisation of a steel transmission tower usingparallelevolutionstrategy.
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An example of thisparallelevolutionis nucleic acid polymerization.
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The similar mechanisms involved in the spectral tuning of the rhodopsins from both fish and the diverse groups of marine mammals presented here are excellent examples ofparallelevolution.
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Convergent evolution is similar to, but distinguishable from, the phenomena ofparallelevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the phenomena of convergent evolution,parallelevolution, and evolutionary reversals (collectively termed "homoplasy") add an unpleasant wrinkle to the problem of estimating phylogeny.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tree form has evolved separately in unrelated classes of plants in response to similar environmental challenges, making it a classic example ofparallelevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Therefore, it appears thatparallelevolutionof similar shell morphology occurred between these two distinct lineages of lymnaeid snails.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Flightlessness in rails is one of the best examples ofparallelevolutionin the animal kingdom.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also possesses unusually large canine teeth, resembling those of the big cats, although these appear to be the result ofparallelevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, these similarities appear to derive fromparallelevolutionbetween these two groups.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These findings indicate that flightlessness and gigantism arose independently multiple times among ratites viaparallelevolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The introduction of the cable binding started aparallelevolutionof binding and boot.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The phenomenon is implicated in many cases ofparallelevolution.
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