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What is adaptive convergence?

The Adaptive convergence is the phenomenon by which living beings facing the same environmental pressure (problems) and undergoing genetic variability and natural selection incorporate structures (solutions) and similar (analogous) organs into their bodies during evolution. For instance, the fins and the hydrodynamic body of dolphins and fishes phylogenetically distant animals.

 


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