divergent evolution
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di·ver·gent ev·o·lu·tion
the process by which a species or gene product gives rise to two or more different products.
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divergent evolution
EVOLUTION from a common ancestral form.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005