Talk:Convergent evolution

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 January 2023 and 11 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Andrewgarcia1973 (article contribs).

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Non-biological instances of convergent evolution, such as trenacisation (non-railway public transport systems evolving to bad copies of trains), are not mentioned in the article. Erkin Alp Güney 18:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the suggestion. However, this article is about a type of

reliable sources that we could cite to describe the analogies briefly. Basically, however, non-biological systems are off-topic for biology articles. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply

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