Maley notes that influences from the environment may drive convergent evolution but that identical mutations can also arise through pure coincidence, simply by virtue of
the enormous numbers involved.
Not exact matches
For instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes
involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanism).
The scale of operations for such an effort is
enormous and
involves what, to an outsider, would seem like an impossible
number of meetings each day.
«Although there are an
enormous number of uncertainties
involved, the hypothesis is very interesting and worth exploring more.»
Again, because of the
enormous number of rings
involved, we will use a lowess fit (with default R span parameter) to the ring widths using the age as the predictor.
Together with its companion volume Supporting Indigenous Researchers: A Practical Guide for Supervisors (2009), it has been written over several years,
involving an
enormous number of contributors and reviewers and a range of engagement processes.