The natural history literature contains many striking examples of sympatric species more similar in appearance than common ancestry or chance warrant. Recent papers by In particular Cody (1969) suggested that convergence in appearance or voice may evolve as a response to selection for interspecific territoriality between ecologically similar species, as territories are defended by vocalization and/or visual displays.
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Cody et al. (1970) studied this question.
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