The octopus, if it evolved to be out of the water and to live longer, might develop a civilization but that would need quite a bit of fortuitous evolutionary sequences. (realclimate.org)
The few examples uncovered so far do not fit cleanly into familiar evolutionary sequences. (discovermagazine.com)
Our findings show that parallel phenotypes can evolve in similar habitats and due to similar selection pressure, however, not necessarily in parallel evolutionary sequence,» explains the evolutionary biologist from Konstanz. (sciencedaily.com)