Evolution; convergence (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 08, 2012, 05:20 (4400 days ago) @ David Turell

Convergence is everywhere. Here is insects. One researcher says evolution is predictable:-"The finding of parallel evolution in not two, but numerous herbivorous insects increases the significance of the study because such frequent parallelism is extremely unlikely to have happened simply by chance," said Zhang, who is familiar with the study but had no role in it."-The biochemistry is so limited chance cannot be operative!-"The power of what we've done is to survey diverse organisms facing a similar problem and find striking evidence for a limited number of possible solutions," he said. "The fact that many of these solutions are used over and over again by completely unrelated species suggests that the evolutionary path is repeatable and predictable." -Only a few ways to evolve!-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121025130922.htm