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<p>Created page with &quot;* Observation described by <a href="/wiki/Attanasio_Hodgkin" title="Attanasio Hodgkin">Attanasio Hodgkin</a> describing processes of convergent evolution that could occur across disconnected ecosystems * Developed 2093 following a visi...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>* Observation described by [[Attanasio Hodgkin]] describing processes of convergent evolution that could occur across disconnected ecosystems<br /> * Developed 2093 following a visit to [[Loracus Prime]] prompted by the discovery of a local species of termite with near-identical morphology to [[Earth]] termites (ENT: &quot;Strange New Worlds&quot;; &#039;&#039;Federation - The First 150 Years&#039;&#039;)<br /> * Describes how species with similar biochemistry filling similar niches in a unrelated environments will often develop the same morphological solutions to those environments even absent evolutionary pressure or similar lines of descent<br /> * Hodgkin later attempted to expand the law to cover sociological convergent evolution as well<br /> ** Efforts were largely dismissed by xenoanthropologists as a faulty analogy<br /> ** General concept of parallel xenoanthropological development was formally structured into the Palmieri Hypothesis by the 24th century by [[NFN Palmieri|Palmieri]] (SCE Short Story: &quot;Fables of the Prime Directive&quot;)<br /> <br /> [[Category:Biology]]<br /> [[Category:Sociology]]</div>

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