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Parallel evolution

Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response to similar evolutionary pressure.

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Parallel coevolution of traits between hummingbirds and sunbirds contributing to ecological guilds

HummingbirdsSunbirdsNectarivorousBehavioralAnatomical
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Parallel evolution between marsupials and placentals

MammalsPlacentalsMarsupialsGondwanalandSouth America
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Parallel vs. convergent evolution

Convergent evolution
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related to References · 22
Parallel evolution → American Naturalist, Biology, Cambridge, Clifford, Company, Convergent Evolution, Dawkins, Harvard University PressSchluter, Limited Forms Most Beautiful, MA, Massachusetts Institute, Mayr, McGhee, McKinnon, Nemethy, Norton, Parallel, Technology Press, The Blind Watchmaker, Theoretical Biology
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Parallel evolution → At, Australia, European, Examples, Gondwanaland, Great American Interchange, However, In South America, Machairodontinae, North America, Old World, South American, Tasmanian, Thylacosmilus, While
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Parallel evolution → similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related

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Parallel evolutionis asimilar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related0.90text
Gondwanaland roughly 100 million years agoinstance ofwhich have followed independent evolutionary pathways following the break-up of land-masses0.80text
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