The evolution of the molluscs is the way in which the Mollusca, one of the largest groups of invertebrate animals, evolved. This phylum includes gastropods...

characteristic of molluscs is they are unsegmented and bilaterally symmetrical. The following are present in all modern molluscs: The dorsal part of the body...

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dispute as to whether these shell-bearing molluscs form a monophyletic group (conchifera) or whether shell-less molluscs are interleaved into their family tree...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

of vertebrates, while scallops have up to 100 simple eyes. There are between seven and eleven distinct eye types in molluscs. Molluscs have eyes of all...

diversification of butterflies through geologic time Peppered moth evolution – Significance of the peppered moth in evolutionary biology Evolution of molluscs – The...

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...

The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...

includes the molluscs, annelids, brachiopods, nemerteans, bryozoa and entoprocts. The molluscs, the second-largest animal phylum by number of described species...