Convergent Evolution: what this star will be

Convergent Evolution is a star on the Constellate sky: placed by meaning, named, and connected to the stars around it. This is the short form of its post: the line it carries, the area we colour Biology, and what stands beside it today.

The line it carries on the sky: Unrelated lineages arrive at the same solution.

What stands beside it

The stars nearest to it are Gradient Descent, Natural Selection, Path Dependence and The Red Queen Hypothesis, and Gradient Descent is already open to walk. When Convergent Evolution opens, the conversation will land it among them, with a line drawn to each idea it touches.

Ask for this star

Every star is lit by demand. Ask for Convergent Evolution and it moves up the list; when it opens, this post becomes the full essay. The open stars beside it can be walked today, and the first concept of every course is free.