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SUBMITTER: Lo N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4810833 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lo Nathan N Tong K Jun KJ Rose Harley A HA Ho Simon Y W SY Beninati Tiziana T Low David L T DL Matsumoto Tadao T Maekawa Kiyoto K
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160201 1825
Parallel evolution is the independent appearance of similar derived phenotypes from similar ancestral forms. It is of key importance in the debate over whether evolution is stochastic and unpredictable, or subject to constraints that limit available phenotypic options. Nevertheless, its occurrence has rarely been demonstrated above the species level. Climate change on the Australian landmass over the last approximately 20 Myr has provided conditions conducive to parallel evolution, as taxa at th ...[more]