convergent traits

Convergent traits are features or characteristics that develop independently in different species because they face similar environmental challenges or lifestyles, not because they share a recent common ancestor. This means that different animals or plants might look or act very alike, like the wings of bats and insects, even though they evolved separately. Convergent traits show how evolution can produce similar solutions to survival problems in different contexts, highlighting how adaptation can lead to similar features in unrelated lineages.