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contingency
The idea that evolution consists of many branching points and that an organism's future evolution depends on previous branching points. This theory would predict that evolution is unlikely to produce similar species on different planets. It stands in contradistinction to convergent evolution.
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• ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE
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