lineage
Continuous lineal descent from a given ancestor; ancestry; the sequence of descendants from an ancestral form.
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Ichthyological terms, not general ones.
convergent evolution
Independant acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated, monophyletic, lineages as a result of inhabiting similar environments or ecological niches.
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race
Genealogical line or lineage. Sometimes used as an infrasubspecific category, i.e., below the subspecies level, to refer to populations or individuals which are not given taxonomic names.
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