Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

By S. Morris. 2003

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CONVERGENCE, ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRAINT (2011, unknown): “wecanclearlyunderstandwhyanalogicaloradaptivechar-acter, although of the utmost importance to the welfare of the become adapted to similar conditions, and thus assume a close external resemblance ... ” Charles Darwin (1859, p. 427). ubiquitous (Conway Morris 2003, 2009, 2010), phenomenon, yet one wh”
Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics (2007, background): “This can be called ‘convergence’: “… what is possible has usually been arrived at multiple times, meaning that the emergence of the various biological properties is effectively inevitable..” (Conway Morris, 2003, preface).”
Key innovations, convergence, and success: macroevolutionary lessons from plant phylogeny (2005, background): “Conway Morris, S., and S. J. Gould.”
Plant defense syndromes. (2006, background): “…, etc ) , then selection is a reasonable hypothesis for the differences between the close relatives ; if multi - ple , phylogenetically independent congeneric pairs show similar suites of defensive traits and divergent ecologies , convergence can be invoked ( Conway - Morris 2003 , Fine et al .”