All convergent evolution synonyms

noun convergent evolution

• convergence — The convergence of different ideas, groups, or societies is the process by which they stop being different and become more similar.
• parallel evolution — the independent development of closely corresponding adaptive features in two or more groups of organisms that occupy different but equivalent habitats, as marsupial mammals in Australia and placental mammals on other continents.
• speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.