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They both employ the same mechanism: adaptation. The difference is that in one case, subpopulations diverge to adapt to differing circumstances, and in the other, separate species adapt to similar circumstances.
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What is the difference between evolution and convergent evolution?
Evolution is the general theory itself, by which organisms change and adapt over time. Convergent evolution is a specific proces in which similar traits appear in unrelated organisms. For example, insects and birds both have wings but the two evolved independent of each other. That's convergent evolution.
What evolution is called when unrelated organism live in similar environment?
And come up with similar solutions, both physiological and behavioral? Analogous structures arising from convergent evolution.
What are analogous characteristics?
analogous character similarities that are the same, but found in different species, thought to have arisen from convergent evolution
When distantly related life form develop similar trits is it convergent evolution?
Yes, because the environmental pressures are the same evolutionary processes develop similar responses to the same challenges in the environment; similar physiological and behavioral traits.
When does convergent evolution occur?
Divergent evolution occurs when a single species develops a certain trait and then diverges to become two different species. Compare this to convergent evolution, where two different species develop a similar trait.
What is convergent adaptation?
Adaptive convergence is a form of evolution in which two unrelated (or distantly related) species evolve very similar forms due to similar selective pressures.
What are some similarities in divergent and convergent evolution?
The adaptive traits that arise through convergent evolution are called analogous. These are the same adaptive solutions that arise in different organisms facing very similar environmental challenges and having analogous mutations to come to similar traits through natural selection. Wings in birds, bats and insects are examples of this.
What is the name of evolution that produces similar but distantly related organisms?
Convergent evolution, or convergence theory.
Features that are similar in organisms that are not evolutionarily related are due to?
convergent evolution
Type of evolution in which unrelated organisums independently evolve smilarities when adapting to similar environments?
Convergent Evolution
A similar feature that evolved through convergent evolution is called a?
It's homoplasy.
Why do organism not closely related sometimes look similar?
Convergent Evolution is the reason. :)
What is it called when two very different species evolve to look like each other?
Convergent evolution may be the words you seek. This often happens when different species have to adapt to a similar environment. An example would be the similar body shape, and the shape of appendages; of both fish and of marine mammals.
What is the difference between evolution and convergent evolution?
Evolution is the general theory itself, by which organisms change and adapt over time. Convergent evolution is a specific proces in which similar traits appear in unrelated organisms. For example, insects and birds both have wings but the two evolved independent of each other. That's convergent evolution.
How did Darwin explain the existence of of similar but unrelated species?
Through convergent evolution, in which similar function produces similar form.
A pattern of evolution that results when two unrelated species begin to appear similar because of environmental conditions is?
Analogous evolution. Convergent evolution.
Do creationists believe in convergent evolution?
No. You can't define the evolution of a single species as convergent. Rather convergent evolution is a comparison of the evolution of two or more groups of organism, which independently evolve similar adaptations. The evolution of birds, bats, and pterosaurs is an example of convergent evolution: in all three groups the forelimbs developed into wings.
