Natural Selections: Why manatees are related to elephants, and whales are related to deer
Natural Selections · Natural Selections
July 29, 20215m 25s
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(Jul 29, 2021) Animals that resemble each other may not be closely related. Sometimes the setting shapes their bodies more than their ancestry. Manatees may look like whales or walruses, but that is only because they adapted to the marine environment in a similar way. Martha Foley and Curt stager talk about convergent evolution.
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