Книга: Parallel Evolution: Convergent Evolution, Cilium, Basal Body, Homology (Biology), Dorsal Fin, Shark, Mimicry, Symbiosis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Serine, Threonine

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in different not closely related species (that is in species of a different clade), but descending from the same ancestor. For a particular trait, proceeding in each of two lineages from a specified ancestor to a later descendant, parallel and convergent evolutionary trends can be strictly defined and clearly distinguished from one another.[2] When both descendants are similar in a particular respect, evolution is defined as parallel if the ancestors considered were also similar, and convergent if they were not.