Ohh I also misunderstood the question.
The term for what your talking about is “convergent evolution”.
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RQG@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t evolution a constant process instead of happening in steps?
vala@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I think the question is how often it evolved independently like bird and bat wings evolved independently
RQG@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That makes a lot more sense then. Thank you, happy to learn something new.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I forget where I saw this, but trees are kind of like crabs, in that they’ve convergent evolved many, many, many different times. Pretty interesting!
Geodad@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Also pterosaur wings.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Add flying fish to that.