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=Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution= Maya Lin 3B

At this science cafe, Professor Jonathan B. Losos challenged the audience to think about different possibilities that we could see in our world today if various events or evolutions had been different, such as the dinosaur extinction. He speaks on the idea that with any difference of chance events, evolution would change dramatically. For example, due to convergent evolution, similar environments will produce similar end products, suggesting that if dinosaurs had lived on and evolved alongside humans, they would have evolved similar features. There are, however, some species that have remained separated from convergent evolution and are unique or unparalleled to other species in isolated regions with similar environments. This is because distantly related species are more likely to adapt in different ways to similar tasks.

The process of convergent evolution is related to environmental science because of the biological patterns seen in similar environments. This as well as divergent evolution are based on chance events, like Professor Losos mentioned, but both types of evolution are dependent on specific environmental factors as well.