George McGhee, "Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful"
English | ISBN: 0262016427 | 2011 | 312 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB
Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of "endless forms most beautiful" continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evolving repeatedly in many independent species lineages. A porpoise's fishlike fins, for example, are not inherited from fish ancestors but are independently derived convergent traits.
