Parallel Evolution

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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Famous quotes containing the words parallel and/or evolution:

    “There isn’t a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)