Our minds have evolved to look for patterns, and causative agents.
Other orchid flowers have evolved to look like female bees of particular species, complete with fuzzy bodies, eyes and wings.
In theory, it should have evolved to look just as wasplike as the one on the right, the better to ward off hungry birds.
It is known as a crop mimic because it has evolved to look just like rice.
The brain has evolved to look for patterns, and when one is incomplete it will fill in the gaps, sometimes leaping to the wrong conclusion, as Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon lawyer, discovered when he was wrongly implicated in the 2004 Madrid bombings on the basis of a single, poor-quality fingerprint.So what of DNA?
"Going back to the Surface 3, we talked about the device as the tablet that can replace your laptop," says Mehdi. "We weren't sure if we were ready to position it as a laptop, but now, with the new features, combined with the fact that consumer demand has evolved to look at these 2-in-1s a laptop replacements, we're really squarely going into that marketplace".
Because the mind processes so much information, the brain has evolved to look for short cuts.
Their only theory is that several birds have evolved to eat batrachotoxin beetles, and in the process they've all evolved to look the same.
They found that guenons' looks have evolved to become more distinctive from relatives living close by, backing up Mr Kingdon's explanation, which had stood unsubstantiated since the 1980s.
Instead, people have evolved to make it easy for others to see where they are looking.
The cylons in the new version still appear as hulking metallic "centurions" similar to the ones in the 80s (except now they're equipped with machine-gun hands), but the cyclons to take note of are the models who have somehow evolved to look exactly like humans.
