A group of researchers used novel and powerful methods to disentangle the patterns of parallel evolution of freshwater three-spined sticklebacks at different geographic scales across their ...

Evidence of phenotypic parallelism is often used to infer the deterministic role played by natural selection. However, variation in the extent or direction of divergence is often evident among ...

Palaeontologists have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different ...

M. A. Yoshida, A. Ogura, K. Ikeo, S. Shigeno, T. Moritaki, G. C. Winters, A. B. Kohn, L. L. Moroz Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 55, No. 6 (December 2015 ...

Nov. 23 (UPI) --The ancient teeth of conodonts, one of Earth's earliest vertebrates, have offered paleontologists new proof of parallel evolution. Despite living in distinct geographical regions, ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

Palaeontologists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the University of Calgary in Canada have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the ...