Convergent evolution

Quality:

Convergent evolution - independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages; creates analogous structures. Article "Convergent evolution" in English Wikipedia has 89.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 96 references and 31 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Convergent evolution" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Convergent evolution", its content was written by 421 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1252 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2149 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8854 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #581 in April 2013
• Global: #3669 in April 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2130 in June 2013
• Global: #6257 in June 2013

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Convergent evolution		89.1203
2	Chinese (zh) 趋同演化		87.6036
3	Spanish (es) Evolución convergente		47.8562
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Konvergent evolusjon		41.9903
5	Simple English (simple) Convergent evolution		37.9335
6	Galician (gl) Evolución converxente		36.3554
7	Portuguese (pt) Convergência evolutiva		35.3798
8	French (fr) Convergence évolutive		34.7193
9	Arabic (ar) تطور تقاربي		34.5966
10	Esperanto (eo) Konverĝa evoluo		33.5301

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Convergent evolution		5 478 058
2	Spanish (es) Evolución convergente		1 180 108
3	Japanese (ja) 収斂進化		1 012 527
4	Russian (ru) Конвергентная эволюция		846 795
5	Polish (pl) Konwergencja (biologia)		520 154
6	Portuguese (pt) Convergência evolutiva		353 966
7	French (fr) Convergence évolutive		250 043
8	Chinese (zh) 趋同演化		211 069
9	Italian (it) Convergenza evolutiva		181 027
10	Swedish (sv) Konvergent evolution		125 012

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Convergent evolution		21 307
2	Japanese (ja) 収斂進化		5 532
3	Russian (ru) Конвергентная эволюция		2 438
4	Spanish (es) Evolución convergente		1 619
5	Chinese (zh) 趋同演化		1 338
6	French (fr) Convergence évolutive		786
7	Simple English (simple) Convergent evolution		616
8	Polish (pl) Konwergencja (biologia)		589
9	German (de) Konvergenztheorie (Evolution)		532
10	Italian (it) Convergenza evolutiva		479

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Convergent evolution		421
2	French (fr) Convergence évolutive		102
3	Russian (ru) Конвергентная эволюция		72
4	Spanish (es) Evolución convergente		61
5	Dutch (nl) Convergente evolutie		55
6	Japanese (ja) 収斂進化		46
7	Italian (it) Convergenza evolutiva		45
8	Portuguese (pt) Convergência evolutiva		40
9	Hebrew (he) אבולוציה מתכנסת		37
10	Polish (pl) Konwergencja (biologia)		33

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Convergent evolution		2
2	Japanese (ja) 収斂進化		1
3	Simple English (simple) Convergent evolution		1
4	Arabic (ar) تطور تقاربي		0
5	Belarusian (be) Канвергентная эвалюцыя		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Конвергенция (биология)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Convergència evolutiva		0
8	Czech (cs) Konvergence (evoluce)		0
9	Danish (da) Konvergent udvikling		0
10	German (de) Konvergenztheorie (Evolution)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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