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Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 (mander.xyz)
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Isn't evolution a constant process instead of happening in steps?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

I think the question is how often it evolved independently like bird and bat wings evolved independently

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That makes a lot more sense then. Thank you, happy to learn something new.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I forget where I saw this, but trees are kind of like crabs, in that they've convergently evolved many, many, many different times. Pretty interesting!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Also pterosaur wings.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Add flying fish to that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ohh I also misunderstood the question.

The term for what your talking about is "convergent evolution".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

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