A widely distributed and diverse plant, B. marginata was described independently and given many different names by early explorers.

Delimited continuations were first described independently by Felleisen et al. and Johnson.

A non-clonal surface amplification method, named "bridge amplification", has also been described independently at the same period.

In the structure, each dimension is represented by a vertical line, and hence each dimension is described independently.

It was described independently by two scientists in 1955, using material brought back by different European expeditions to the same region.

The features of vowel prosody are often described independently from vowel quality.

It was described independently in 1857 under the name Galathea tridentata by Laurits Esmark.

This behaviour was described independently by both James Terrell and Roger Penrose in pieces published in 1959.

It was also described independently in 1897 by Hastings Gilford.

Monogamy is actually a rather eurocentric way of doing things and comprises only 16% of all independently described human cultures.