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Convergent evolution: Distantly related birds, same crests
| July 3, 2015 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, News |
From ScienceDaily: A few years ago biologists found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be traced to a mutation in a single gene. Now the research team has found an almost exact repeat in the evolutionary playbook in distantly related doves. Evolutionary playbook? Doesn’t that imply a strategy? Oh wait, that’s […]
