Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔

RQG@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • RQG@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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  • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also pterosaur wings.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Add flying fish to that.

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• vala@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ohh I also misunderstood the question.

  The term for what your talking about is “convergent evolution”.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

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