QUESTION:- Silvertown suggests that convergent (or parallel) evolution provides evidence of natural selection, and discusses independent adaptations to desert environments. Identify similar adaptations in different groups of plants. What is the selective agent that generated those convergent adaptations? Give a brief definition of convergence, incorporating the idea of a phylogeny.

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