Early during development, organisms as diverse as a human, a mouse, and a bat can appear indistinguishable. All of their embryos look nearly identical,

suggesting that

this is a coincidental resemblance between them

during development, humans go through stages of being a mouse and a bat

these very different species have a shared ancestry with all mammals

similar structures have developed because of convergent evolution

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