Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Evolution is a long, slow and continuous experiment where ...

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Convergent phenotypic evolution often results from similar genetic changes in independent species by a process known as parallel evolution. Sometimes, convergent evolution results from the evolution ...

Eugene Lim receives funding from UK STFC and FQXi. The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics ...