单词 | evolve independently |
释义 | evolve independently The same features evolved independently, in response to similar problems, in very different animals - a phenomenon known as convergent evolution. Times, Sunday Times (2015) For example, parasitism - one animal living off another - had evolved independently many times in the course of evolution. PREY (2002) They argue that complex nervous systems evolved independently in different groups of animals. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Botanical carnivory has evolved independently in five angiosperm orders. 2018, 'Phylogeny and Biogeography of Carnivorous Plant Family Nepenthaceae With Reference to the Indian Pitcher Plant Nepenthes Khasiana Reveals an Indian Subcontinent Origin of Nepenthes Colonization in South East Asia During the Miocene Epoch', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution We show that osmoregulatory capacity, rather than osmoconformity, has evolved independently in these different lineages. 2015, 'The comparative osmoregulatory ability of two water beetle genera whose species span the fresh-hypersaline gradient in inland waters (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae).', PLoS ONE |
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