How to Use convergent evolution in a Sentence
convergent evolution
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So much of the book is about convergent evolution, the idea that the environment teaches you how to live in it.
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Sarah Lewin Frasier,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2026
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This is a striking example of convergent evolution and shows just how powerful ants and termites have been in shaping mammalian history.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt,
ArsTechnica,
20 Aug. 2025
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Such similarities are examples of convergent evolution, when species that are not closely related evolve to have similar traits.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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When a trait evolves repeatedly and independently, biologists call this convergent evolution.
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Lilia Goncharova,
The Conversation,
9 Mar. 2026
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Its hooves are an example of a phenomenon called convergent evolution in which disparate organisms independently evolve similar features — like the wings of birds, bats and the extinct flying reptiles called pterosaurs — while adapting to similar environments or ecological niches.
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Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Here’s how Chalicotherium represents one of the clearest fossil examples of convergent evolution, where an unrelated animal independently evolved similar traits, simply because the species face similar ecological challenges.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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The paleontologist Simon Conway Morris points out that there are common and widespread patterns of convergent evolution in life’s history, where similar adaptations, like eyes, wings, and streamlined bodies, evolved independently in unrelated lineages.
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Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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