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Repeated evolution: Among insect 236 families in 18 of 44 orders independently invaded water
just another extreme convergent evolution event … stuff happens … No insects returned to land after adapting to aquatic habits Due to different evolutionary rates or periodical changes in water characteristics, non-adapted terrestrial insects repeatedly invaded the aquatic realm with well adapted hydrobionts. The proposed reason for the lack of land return is the character of numerous aquatic adaptations […]