But scientists have debated whether examples of so-called adaptive, parallel evolution also can be found at the level of genes and proteins.

The leaf-nosed bat genus Hipposideros, found in the dense jungles of the Solomon Islands, presents a compelling example of parallel evolution. This group of bats, widely distributed across ...

However, variation in the extent or direction of divergence is often evident among independent evolutionary replicates, raising the following question: just how parallel, overall, is parallel ...

Parallel evolution is common, but do different animal populations evolve in similar ways and alter the same genes to adapt to similar environmental conditions? Researchers tested this in two U.S ...

Palaeontologists have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different ...

One common type of parallel evolution is convergent evolution. For example thylacines and wolves are two separate species with different origins that evolved separately to look similar.

Many-to-one mapping of phenotype to function enables multiple morphological solutions to meet the same adaptive challenges. Therefore, many-to-one mapping should undermine parallel morphological ...

That crabs (both “true” and ersatz) have so densely but separately evolved the same form is highly unusual, even in a world full of these examples of strong parallel and convergent evolution.