Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but from different clades.
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“The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Like Freud, Jung believes that the human mind contains archaic remnants, residues of the long history and evolution of mankind. In the unconscious, primordial “universally human images” lie dormant. Those primordial images are the most ancient, universal and “deep” thoughts of mankind. Since they embody feelings as much as thought, they are properly “thought feelings.” Where Freud postulates a mass psyche, Jung postulates a collective psyche.”
—Patrick Mullahy (b. 1912)