Parallel Evolution
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CORE DEFINITION
Two closely related species, under similar environmental pressures, independently evolve similar traits.
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The inevitability of the path. If you and your competitors are both smart and face the same market environment, your final strategies (product form, tactics) will inevitably become more and more similar. This 'homogenization' is not plagiarism, but convergence to the optimal solution for the environment.
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Parallel evolution refers to distantly related groups independently evolving similar traits under similar selective pressures (e.g., cacti and African euphorbias both becoming fleshy and spiny). It illustrates that 'environmental pressure leads to convergent solutions', an evolutionary version of 'different paths to the same goal'.
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_evolutionverified
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