Three separate populations of cave fish have evolved to be
- blind,
- pale,
- sleep 2-4 hours.
When interbred, these separate populations produced young that could see, showing that the genes causing the degenerate blindness were different in the different populations.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/07/sleepless-in-mexico-–-three-cavefish-groups-independently-evolved-to-lose-sleep/
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