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1. Bioluminescence
   Flying through the air on a summer's evening or sparkling in the ocean you may see magical flashes of light that signal some of nature's most enchanting creatures, those that are bioluminescent.

2. Vibrational communication in animals
   What on earth could an elephant or treehoppers have in common with a seismometer?

3. Myelinated nerves in vertebrates, annelids and crustaceans
   Myelinated nerves are an excellent biological solution and needless to say have evolved independently in several groups other than vertebrates. In each case myelination is associated with very rapid nervous conduction and often escape reactions.

4. Camera eyes in alciopid annelids
   There is a striking example in the group known as the alciopids, which are pelagic polychaetes. The similarity of their camera eye to the vertebrate eye has attracted considerable comment.

5. Love darts in slugs, snails and annelid worms
   The curious habit of stabbing their partners with sharp calcareous (or chitinous) darts during courtship and prior to actual copulation has understandably attracted considerable attention.

6. Worm-like body form
   Man is but a worm, but so are many other vertebrates...

7. Electroreception in fish, amphibians and monotremes
   From an evolutionary point of view, electroreception is particularly intriguing as a sense modality that has been repeatedly lost and reinvented again.

8. Burrowing: from worms to vertebrates
   Quite a few adaptations are useful for burrowing into the soil. So it is not exactly surprising that they have evolved several times...