Parallelism

Parallelism
Occurence of the same of similar structures independently evolved in two or more lineages, that may be but must not be related to another.
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Due to the parallelism that allows them to implicitly evaluate many schema at once, ...

Efficiencies are realized by the parallelism of the Robbins pipetting head, the parallelism of multiple modules operating simultaneously, ...

Parallel evolution
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Parallelism
Occurence of the same of similar structures independently evolved in two or more lineages, that may be but must not be related to another.

Phenetic classifications are plagued by problems of convergence and parallelism, but are useful in their attempt to objectify the classification process.

See also: Evolution, Lineage, Organ, Character, Life