Convergent evolution is when different organisms independently evolve similar traits. For example, sharks and dolphins look relatively similar despite being entirely unrelated. Sharks are egg-laying ...

Sometimes, Darwinian natural selection stumbles upon the same solution more than once, in a process known as convergent evolution. Here are our favorite examples of evolution making the same creature, ...

In a series of three extraordinary papers published between 2004 and 2013, Max D. Cooper and colleagues discovered a new type of adaptive immunity in jawless vertebrates. This revolutionary discovery ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Premise of the study: Thallus architecture has long been a powerful guide for classifying lichens and has often trumped photobiont association ...