Also known as homoplasy, convergence
independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages; creates analogous structures
Convergent evolution is when different species that aren't closely related independently develop similar features or body structures because they face the same environmental challenges. This matters because it shows us that evolution can arrive at the same solutions multiple times, revealing patterns in how life adapts to survive.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).