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  • adverb In a convergent manner
  • adverb With regard to convergence

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Examples

  • Diard's clouded leopard appears more derived with respects to saber-toothed craniodental features than the clouded leopard, indicating that the former may have gone farther than the latter in convergently evolving craniomandibular features traditionally considered characteristic of primitive saber-toothed felids.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • In test objects, minimum drag is achieved when body length is approximately four to five times body width, and many fast swimmers have evolved these approximate proportions convergently.

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

  • Not only are they a great example of convergence, but one has to wonder why the frog design convergently became the "solution" to so many different "problems".

    Convergence 2008

  • But Russell & Séguin knew that they would be accused of this, and they ended their discussion by wondering if they had been directed by bias, or if the humanoid shape really would crop up convergently, as do so many other body shapes.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • But Russell & Séguin knew that they would be accused of this, and they ended their discussion by wondering if they had been directed by bias, or if the humanoid shape really would crop up convergently, as do so many other body shapes.

    Dinosauroids revisited Darren Naish 2006

  • There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc.

    Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

  • The old SpikeTV. com, because it could be sold convergently with the network, had access to a lot of high CPM sponsorships, custom integrations, tie-ins with our tent-poles like the VGAs [Video Game Awards].

    New Spike.com Site Delivers Unapologetically Male View of the World 2008

  • Well, perhaps not, as some workers have expressed scepticism, stating for example that the identification of Old World peccaries as peccaries proper is ‘not based on synapomorphy’ (Wright 1998, p. 389), the implication therefore being that these taxa might be suids that are convergently peccary-like in a few features.

    Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea Darren Naish 2006

  • The old SpikeTV. com, because it could be sold convergently with the network, had access to a lot of high CPM sponsorships, custom integrations, tie-ins with our tent-poles like the VGAs [Video Game Awards].

    Nina Spezzaferro: New Spike.com Site Delivers Unapologetically Male View of the World 2008

  • Well, perhaps not, as some workers have expressed scepticism, stating for example that the identification of Old World peccaries as peccaries proper is ‘not based on synapomorphy’ (Wright 1998, p. 389), the implication therefore being that these taxa might be suids that are convergently peccary-like in a few features.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

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