FE5.1 - Spiders Song (Part 1)
Future Ecologies
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The Evolution of Jumping Spiders
The dance of evolution isn't just about appreciating variation. Sometimes organisms will each take different evolutionary journeys and still end up in a remarkably similar place. In jumping spiders, you can see a whole set of really vivid convergences. For example, depending on where certain species live, they'll take on certain typical body forms. But there's also apparently a really strong pressure for a jumping spider to pretend to be an ant.
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