Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "historical contingency"
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Intercontinental Community Convergence of Ecology and Morphology in Desert Lizards
(The Royal Society of London, 2006)Evolutionary ecologists have long debated the extent to which communities in similar environments but different geographic regions exhibit convergence. On the one hand, if species' adaptations and community structure are ... -
Shared and Unique Features of Diversification in Greater Antillean Anolis Ecomorphs
(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)Examples of convergent evolution suggest that natural selection can often produce predictable evolutionary outcomes. However, unique histories among species can lead to divergent evolution regardless of their shared selective ...