Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...

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For one, plankton-feeding is the most common feeding group among reef fishes—giving us many distantly related species to compare. For another, they all share the same challenge of having to spot and ...