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origin and divergence
( 2003 ): " Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin.
Some of the key topics that spurred development of the field have been the evolution of enzyme function, the use of nucleic acid divergence as a " molecular clock " to study species divergence, and the origin of noncoding DNA.
Hence there is a wide divergence of opinion regarding the age, origin, contents, and value of the book, since it is variously regarded as the Temple era.
* ( 2007 ): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's ( Ethiopia ) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation.
Despite the archaic features, these specimens were argued to represent the direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens sapiens which, according to the " recent African origin ( RAO )" or " out of Africa " model, developed shortly after this period ( Khoisan mitochondrial divergence dated not later than 110, 000 BCE ) in Eastern Africa.
* ( 2007 ): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's ( Ethiopia ) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation.
* ( 2007 ): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's ( Ethiopia ) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation.
The three described varieties in C. comosum could be an example of this convergent evolution of leaf shape among the forest-dwelling varieties from species of disparate origin, leading to the species C. comosum being polyphyletic, instead of the traditional view of morphological divergence among the varieties within the species with the assumption of a common origin ( monophyly ).
The ancient common origin and more recent divergence of Russian and Ukrainian make it difficult to establish the degree of mixing in a vernacular of this sort.
This information includes spectral ( harmonics of divergence and vorticity ) vs gridded data ( Gaussian, X-Y grid ), horizontal resolution, and the location of the origin.
In the case of divergent evolution, similarity is due to the common origin, such as divergence from a common ancestral structure or function has not yet completely obscured the underlying similarity.

origin and term
The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.
Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.
However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.
The term lipid comprises a diverse range of molecules and to some extent is a catchall for relatively water-insoluble or nonpolar compounds of biological origin, including waxes, fatty acids, fatty-acid derived phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids, and terpenoids ( e. g., retinoids and steroids ).
Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.
He argued that the term bretwalda " falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions ".
The origin of the term is uncertain, and many researchers have different theories on how the word entered the English vocabulary.
The current term bipolar disorder is of fairly recent origin and refers to the cycling between high and low episodes ( poles ).
For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.
In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.
The origin of the term " born again " is the New Testament: " Jesus replied, ' Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.
The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.
These definitions are archaic, their relevance having dissipated with the development of the English legal system over the centuries, but they do explain the origin of the term as used today.
The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.
Gibson later commented on the origin of the term in the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories:
While the first application of the term " clipper " in a nautical sense is by no means certain, it seems to have had an American origin when applied to the Baltimore clippers of the late 18th century.
It is used in most or all philosophies and religions of Indian origin — sometimes summarized under the umbrella term of Dharmic faiths — including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.
* Dravidian parties, a collective term used for political parties, that trace their ideologies and origin from Dravidar Kazhagam
The term " ecology " () is of a more recent origin and was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( 1866 ).
The definition of an extreme sport is not exact and the origin of the term is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games.
The term should be distinguished from " false cognates ", which are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin ( whatever their current meaning ) but actually do not.
This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.
It was found in Holland by English troops who were fighting against the Spanish in the Eighty Years ' War who noticed its calming effects before battle, which is the origin of the term Dutch courage.
The origin of the Hamma term remains uncertain ,< ref >< cite id = Verg > as does the exact location of the castle.

origin and extreme
Ironically, Peter Ruckman, a BJU graduate, has argued the most extreme version of the KJV-only position, that all translations of the Bible since the KJV have been of satanic origin.
* Last Paradise, a film about the origin of extreme sports over 45 years in original footage
The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia ( from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex ), where they were domesticated 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.
Nonetheless, genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species affirms that all potato subspecies derive from a single origin in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia ( from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex ).
Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.
Their extreme enrichment and geochemistry has led to a large amount of speculation about their origin, with models placing their source within the sub-continental lithospheric mantle ( SCLM ) or even as deep as the transition zone.
For example, one problem with the lunar origin theory is that the arguments for it are based upon the behavior of glass melts uses data from pressures and temperatures that are vastly uncharacteristic of and unrelated to the extreme conditions of hypervelocity impacts.
As systemic envenomation progresses symptoms include nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath ( caused by airway obstruction ), agitation, confusion, writhing, grimacing, muscle spasms, pulmonary oedema ( of neurogenic or hypertensive origin ), metabolic acidosis and extreme hypertension.
" On going for my next lesson to Ulysses, that city of modern prose ," he wrote, " I was struck by the great number of magnificent passages in which words are used as they are used in poetry, and in which the emotion which is originally aesthetic, and the emotion which has its origin in intellect, are fused in higher proportions of extreme forms than I had believed was possible.
The practice has its origin in a distress signal ; displaying a flag in this manner is " a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property "; it has been used by extension to make a statement about distress in civic, political, or other areas.
Jet is not considered a true mineral, but rather a mineraloid as it has an organic origin, being derived from decaying wood under extreme pressure.
His death was an overwhelming grief to Chesterfield, and the discovery that he had long been married to a lady of humble origin must have been galling in the extreme to his father after his careful instruction in worldly wisdom.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress ( IIED ) is a tort claim of recent origin for intentional conduct that results in extreme emotional distress.
The structure of the society is complex enough to make either interpretation possible, though the society's origin and structure is based on an extreme of separatist feminism.
Geologically the mountains are young, and with the exception of a few volcanic rocks in the extreme western part of the range, and a small exposure of the metamorphic Franciscan Formation north of Carpinteria, exclusively of sedimentary origin.
Greek merchants and clergy of Byzantine aristocratic origin, who acquired great economic prosperity and political influence, and were later known as Phanariotes, settled in the extreme northwestern district of Constantinople, which had become central to Greek interests after the establishment of the Patriarch's headquarters in 1461 ( shortly after Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque ).
Some say the variation had its origins in 1920s America, while others claim the extreme version is simply retroactive, appealing to croquet's supposed origin as a 15th century French shepherd pastime.
The origin of the name Eastcott,the eastern cottage ( s ),’ which lay at the extreme western edge of Urchfont parish, cannot be easily explained.
The transscrotal piercing is of contemporary origin, and has generally only been performed by practitioners of other " extreme " body modifications such as subdermal implants, transdermal implants and tongue splitting.
The extreme height of Maxwell Montes in relation to other compressional mountain ranges around Lakshmi Planum suggests that its origin is more complex.

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