divergent evolution
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convergent evolutionadaptationancestoralleleanatomybiodiversitybiologybranchingcladecladisticscommon ancestordescendantdifferentiationecologyevolutionextinctionfitnessgenegeneticsgenotypegenushabitatheredityhomologyhybridizationmutationnatural selectionnicheorganismoriginphylogenyphylogenetic treephenotyperadiationadaptive radiationselectionspeciationspeciesstraintaxonomytraitvariationvertebratewild typezoologybotanymorphologydivergenceconvergencelineagecladogramgenomechromosomeproteinenzymemetabolismenvironmentcompetitionsymbiosiscoevolutionmacroevolutionmicroevolutiondriftgenetic driftbottleneckfounder effectisolationallopatrysympatryadaptationismDarwinismselection pressurefitness landscapeorthologparaloghomoplasyanalogy