How to Use convergent in a Sentence

convergent

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Together, the two- and three-toed flavors of sloth represent a remarkable case of convergent evolution.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2012
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The thylacine is a likely example of convergent evolution, nature’s version of independent invention, Berns says.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
• 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
• Unrelated species sometimes arrive at remarkably similar anatomies through a process called convergent evolution.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024