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Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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McGhee, George R.

Why does a sea lily look like a palm tree? And why is a sea lily called a “lily” when it is a marine animal and not a plant? Many marine animals bear a noticeable similarity in form to land-dwelling plants. And yet these marine animal forms evolved in the oceans first; land plants independently and convergently evolved similar forms much later in geologic time. In this book, George McGhee a…

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Convergent evolution :limited forms most beautiful
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An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life. Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of “endless forms most beautiful” continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evol…

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Convergent evolution on earth :lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life
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McGhee, George R.,

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