How to Use convergent in a Sentence
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And there is no question that changes of norms in Western countries since the beginning of the pandemic have given rise to a form of life plainly convergent with the Chinese model.
—Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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The period leading up to April 1894, when Edison licensed the first Kinetoscope parlor, was a free-for-all of competing and convergent technologies.
—Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
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This study demonstrates convergent evolution, Thomas says, as these creatures are so far off the evolutionary pathway from humans, but are in some ways similar to us.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
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Together, the two- and three-toed flavors of sloth represent a remarkable case of convergent evolution.
—Brian Switek, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2012
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Lacking concrete proof of Turkey’s involvement, prosecutors pointed to convergent falsehoods told by Alptekin, Flynn and Rafiekian as well as the odd evolution of the project.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
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This looks like a classic case of convergent evolution, but no one has been able to prove the point by demonstrating a benefit derived from it that is connected directly with brood parasitism.
—The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
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This is an example of what biologists call convergent evolution, when organisms evolve the same traits multiple times in different ways.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019
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The straight-tusked elephant is now an example of convergent evolution, starting from an ancestor that had more in common with African elephants but becoming anatomically more like Asian elephants.
—Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 12 June 2017
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That gives biologists a tool with which to explore the phenomenon of convergent evolution, in which unrelated lines with similar ways of life evolve similar adaptations that help them to thrive.
—The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
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For the rest of us, one interesting and sometimes confusing aspect of evolution is the difference between convergent and divergent evolution.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
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Even when sober, the cannabis users self-reported higher creativity and also performed better on a test measuring convergent thinking, an aspect of creativity for finding solutions to a problem, compared with the nonusers.
—Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
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The thylacine is a likely example of convergent evolution, nature’s version of independent invention, Berns says.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
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Or did the auditory systems evolve independently to perform the same function, a phenomenon called convergent evolution?
—Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
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Unrelated species sometimes arrive at remarkably similar anatomies through a process called convergent evolution.
—Asher Elbein, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
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Just as convergent evolution caused ichthyosaurs and dolphins to look alike, the demands of the aviation industry have nudged aeronautical engineers toward maximum efficiency with little variation.
—Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2017
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In rodents, defense against predators (interspecies) and alpha males (conspecifics) activates very similar brain structures and behaviors, suggesting that there was substantial convergent evolution of these defenses.
—Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
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Sometimes two unrelated species can undergo convergent evolution, a process by which two different animals independently evolve a similar trait.
—Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
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Its hostile currents and depths of more than 700 feet are an incredible natural laboratory for studying convergent evolution, or how diverse species develop similar environmental adaptations.
—Asher Elbein, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
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