European mole
Maker
Frederic Wood Jones (b.1879, d.1954)
Date
Circa 1932
Description
Potted specimen of a European mole (Talpa europaea). Originally mounted on a comparative display board showing the concept of convergent evolution, featuring a European mole, mole cricket, marsupial mole (or itjaritjari), thylacine, and dingo. The display was prepared for the 1932 exhibition 'Man and His Ancestors' by Frederic Wood Jones, University of Melbourne’s Anatomy Department Head from 1930–1937. The label reads:
“The term convergence is applied to resemblances amongst animals which are not due to direct relationship or genetic affinity. In other words, which are nto derived by inheritance from common ancestors, but which result from independent functional adaptation to similar ends.” Arthur Willey: Convergence in evolution. 1911 p. 52
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