Complex sentence: Like all New World vultures, it is not related to the Old World vultures of Europe, Africa, and Asia, but looks nearly identical to them because of convergent evolution, in which unrelated animals adapting to the same conditions are similarly shaped by natural selection.
Split into simpler sentences: Like all New World vultures, it is not related to the Old World vultures of Europe, Africa, and Asia. It looks nearly identical because of convergent evolution, in which unrelated animals adapting to the same conditions are similarly shaped by natural selection.