> --- Brendon Lieschke <9300514_at_ucol.ac.nz> wrote:
> > My question is what could possibly have caused the
> > similar simultaneous
> > changes, breaching the inter-species barrier to be
> > able to cause the same
> > general biological effect regardless of each species
> > genetic makeup?
>
> Fractal evolution? Remember - statistics allow for
> the clustering of unlikely events. Who knows? Maybe
> this worked out much the same way. Especially if
> something made the traits intensely desirable
> world-wide.
I can't remember the precise term, but there _is_ a type of evolution I learnt
about in biology class a few years ago. It basically describes the evolution of
similar structures within different creatures. Like how the bones in a dolphins
fin (I think that was the example) resemble a human hand.
I think the terms were convergent and divergent evolutions.
Jace Draccus
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Received on Sat Oct 13 2001 - 10:38:33 CDT