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BrainStuff

How Do Unrelated Species Develop Similar Traits?

BrainStuff

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Technology, Science, Natural Sciences

4.01.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Some traits and abilities -- like flight, for example -- are so useful that completely different species evolved them independently over time. Learn about convergent evolution (and divergent evolution) in this episode of BrainStuff.

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