单词 | parallel evolution |
释义 | > as lemmasparallel evolution parallel evolution n. Biology evolution following a similar course in related groups of organisms; parallelism (see parallelism n. 6a). ΚΠ 1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 1070 In the parallel evolution of trituberculy in different phyla we find that the progression is by no means uniform. 1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xvii. 349 This parallel evolution [of the eye] has extended in the cephalopods and the vertebrates to the various accessory parts of the organs, which are extraordinarily similar in arrangement in the two groups. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) iv. 89 Parallel evolution was the mechanism Carleton Coon had used to explain how the modern human races had evolved at separate and distinctly unequal rates. < as lemmas |
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