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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    “The beginnings of altruism can be seen in children as early as the age of two. How then can we be so concerned that they count by the age of three, read by four, and walk with their hands across the overhead parallel bars by five, and not be concerned that they act with kindness to others?”
    —Neil Kurshan (20th century)

    “Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
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