Carnivorans apparently evolved in North America out of members of the family Miacidae ( miacids ) about 42 million years ago.

Carnivorans evolved from miacoids about 55 million years ago during the late Paleocene.

Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist.

Amphibians evolved adaptations that allowed them to stay out of the water for longer periods.

Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.

Black ASL evolved out of racial segregation in the United States, especially in the South.

What started out as mere retribution, eventually evolved into full-fledged campaigns of expansion with religious crusader motives.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

According to Steiner, a real spiritual world exists, out of which the material one gradually condensed and evolved.

* Christianity has evolved out of previous religions ;

Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).

The genre evolved from folklore tales of a dunce or youngest son going out in the world to seek his fortune.

Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

Such sentiments especially grew strong in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when ecumenism evolved out of a liberal, non-sectarian perspective on relations to other Christian groups that accompanied the relaxation of Calvinist stringencies held by earlier generations.

Much like battle axes, daggers evolved out of prehistoric tools.

The modern encyclopedia evolved out of dictionaries around the 17th century.

According to the Recent African Ancestry theory, modern humans evolved in Africa possibly from Homo heidelbergensis and migrated out of the continent some 50, 000 to 100, 000 years ago, replacing local populations of Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.

As modern humans spread out from Africa they encountered other hominins such as Homo neanderthalensis and the so-called Denisovans, who may have evolved from populations of Homo erectus that had left Africa already around.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

The term was not endemic to Romance languages ( e. g. native words for " forest " in the Romance languages evolved out of the Latin word silva " forest, wood " ( English sylvan ); cf.

* Michael Halliday's systemic functional grammar argues that the explanation of how language works " needed to be grounded in a functional analysis, since language had evolved in the process of carrying out certain critical functions as human beings interacted with their ... ' eco-social ' environment ".

Gradually, a proto-capitalistic system evolved out of feudalism.

" he makes the controversial claim that the " New Hacker Ethic " has continuously evolved out of the older one, though having undergone a radical shift.

The counties evolved over time, with the earliest defined being set out by King John, including a then much larger County Dublin.

Skepticism evolved epistemology out of metaphysics.

All members of this phylum are parasitic and evolved from a free living ancestor.

Some extinct members of the crocodilian line, a sister group to the dinosaurs and birds, also evolved bipedal forms-a crocodile relative from the triassic, Effigia okeeffeae, is believed to be bipedal.

According to Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of natural selection, features such as camouflage evolved by providing individual animals with a reproductive advantage, enabling them to leave more offspring, on average, than other members of the same species.

The earliest documented members of the genus Homo are Homo habilis which evolved around.

The earliest members of the genus Homo are Homo habilis which evolved around.

An article on California street gang violence states that " killings and drive-by shootings have evolved as the most frequent violent crimes committed by gang members since the early 1980s ..., with an abundance of large-caliber handguns, shotguns, and automatic and semi-automatic weapons -- including AK-47s, Mac-10s, and Uzi submachine guns ".

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

The Council consisted of forty members in 1553, but the Sovereign relied on a smaller committee, which later evolved into the modern Cabinet.

However, this is not the first species of homininae: the first species of genus Homo, Homo habilis, are theorized to have evolved in East Africa at least 2 million years ago, and members of this species populated different parts of Africa in a relatively short time.

In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts as a group has " dissolved / evolved " with Crowe feeling his future music would take a new direction and he began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band: The Ordinary Fear of God which also involved some members of the previous TOFOG line-up.

Many of today's service clubs got their start as social clubs for business networking, but quickly evolved into organizations devoted more to service and less for networking, although networking is still a primary reason for many members to join.

They were formerly included in the order Rajiformes, but more recent phylogenetic studies have shown that the myliobatiforms are a monophyletic group, and that its more derived members evolved their highly flattened shapes independently of the skates.

The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations: the group was originally promoted as painters, but members work in various other media, including poetry, fiction, performance, photography, film and music.

Among the extant members of Apis, the more basal species make single, exposed combs, while the more recently evolved species nest in cavities and have multiple combs, which has greatly facilitated their domestication.

With nine members in their lineup, including a violinist and flutist, the band has evolved over the years into a combination of power metal and Celtic flavored folk metal.

After studying Drama and playing in short lived synth pop outfit, Two's a Crowd, Albarn formed a band with Coxon which, after various incarnations, evolved into Blur with additional members, Alex James and Dave Rowntree.

Pheromones have evolved in all animal phyla, to signal sex and dominance status, and are responsible for stereotypical social and sexual behaviour among members of the same species.

Since its founding years, ILGA has evolved from a loose organisation of volunteers and an emphasis on the conferences as the main platform for information exchange, inspiration and co-operation initiatives into a more professional lobby organisation with ( some ) paid staff members.

In Fayette on April 6, 1830 Joseph Smith, Jr., who was from nearby Palmyra, New York, organized the Church of Christ, later to be known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in a log home owned by Peter Whitmer, Sr .. Whitmer was one of five others besides Smith who formed the initial six members of what evolved into the LDS church.

In this regard they stand on a basis quite different from the members of an organized police force .” The Municipal Police Institute, now the MCJTC, issue a report in May 1977, on the powers of constables noting that modern police out only evolved from constables but they derive their common law powers arrest from constables, also stating “ Constables still possess extensive law enforcement powers to this day ”.

Different mechanisms for forcible spore discharge have evolved among members of the zygomycete order Entomophthorales.

During the Renaissance, the stonemason's guild admitted members who were not stonemasons, and eventually evolved into the Society of Freemasonry ; fraternal groups which observe the traditional culture of stonemasons, but are not typically involved in modern construction projects.

They display considerable versatility in binding modes, even between members of the same class ( e. g. some bind DNA, others protein ), suggesting that Znf motifs are stable scaffolds that have evolved specialised functions.