In Australia, marsupials and placental mammals have evolved to share many similar characteristics. This type of evolution may be referred to as:
Adaptive Radiation
Divergent Evolution
Cyclical Evolution
Convergent Evolution
when more than one adaptive radiation appears to have occurred in an isolated geographical area (representing different habitats), one can call this convergent evolution . The text specifically cites the example of Placental mammals and Australian marsupials showing similarities (e.g., Placental wolf and Tasmanian wolf) as an instance of this phenomenon .
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