A recent study suggests that there are at least two distinct genetic lineages among the blind populations, arguing that these represent a case of convergent evolution.

The Herald < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > history can be traced back through two lineages, the Daily Advertiser and the old Boston Herald, and two media moguls, William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch.

However, morphological evidence suggests that the traditional Ciconiiformes should be split between two lineages, rather than expanded, although some non-traditional Ciconiiformes may be included in these two lineages.

By using the technique called the molecular clock which estimates the time required for the number of divergent mutations to accumulate between two lineages, the approximate date for the split between lineages can be calculated.

This classification is not natural however: based on molecular data, ciscoes comprise two distinct lineages within the genus.

This initial virus developed into two distinct lineages, lineage 1 and its multiple profiles is the source of the epidemic transmission in Africa and throughout the world.

In early white shark evolution there are at least two lineages: one lineage is of white sharks with coarsely serrated teeth and it probably gave rise to the modern great white shark, and another lineage is of white sharks with finely serrated teeth.

DNA evidence seems to support an African origin for the trogons, with the African genus Apaloderma seemingly basal in the family, and the other two lineages, the Asian and American, breaking off between 20-36 million years ago.

The two main types of homoplasy are convergence ( appearance of the same character in at least two distinct lineages ) and reversion ( the return to an ancestral character ).

Judging from genetic data, their closest living relatives appear to be the skuas, with these two lineages separating about 30 million years ago ( mya ).

In the first overview of horned dinosaurs, R. S. Lull hypothesized two lineages, one of Monoclonius and Centrosaurus leading to Triceratops, the other with Ceratops and Torosaurus, making Triceratops a centrosaurine as the group is understood today.

Such strict cospeciation should result in identical phylogenetic trees for the two lineages and recent work mapping fig sections onto molecular phylogenies of wasp genera and performing statistical comparisons has provided strong evidence for co-speciation at that scale.

Australia has two distinct maternal lineages, one of which also contains the dugongs from Africa and Arabia.

While the fossil record of hippos is still poorly understood, the lineages of the two modern genera, Hippopotamus and Choeropsis, may have diverged as far back as.

Only two lineages survived this period's massive extinction and into the Triassic: the genus Miocidaris, which gave rise to modern cidaroida ( pencil urchins ), and the ancestor that gave rise to the euechinoids.

However, morphological evidence suggests that the traditional Ciconiiformes should be split between two lineages, rather than expanded, although some non-traditional Ciconiiformes may be included in these two lineages.

These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.

offer two alternate methods to compute the skewness and kurtosis, each of which can save substantial computer memory requirements and CPU time in certain applications.

The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two curule aediles were appointed — at first from the patricians alone, then from patricians and plebeians in turn, lastly, from either — at the Tribal Assembly under the presidency of the consul.

When Högni comes to fight Heðinn on an island, Hildr comes to offer her father a necklace on behalf of Heðinn for peace ; but the two kings still battle, and Hildr resurrects the fallen to make them fight until Ragnarök.

Antony, who had found himself generally deserted, after vainly attempting to secure the army stationed near Paraetonium under Pinarius, and sending his eldest son Antyllus with money to Octavian and an offer to live at Athens as a private citizen, found himself in the spring attacked on two sides.

* Satellite radio: In June 2005, the CRTC outraged some Canadian cultural nationalists ( such as the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting ) and labour unions by licencing two companies, Canadian Satellite Radio and Sirius Canada to offer satellite radio services in Canada.

The two companies are in partnership with American firms XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio respectively, and in accordance with the CRTC decision will only need to offer ten percent Canadian content.

Some programs offer programs with two pre-professional years followed by four professional years, while others require a four year undergraduate / bachelor's degree.

Earlier versions also offer Unison / Couple Mode, in which two players must cooperate to play the song.

While some people prefer to link the two ideas of “ open source software ” and “ free software ” together, it is important to understand the difference because they offer two separate ideas and values.

Rather than offer two processors, essentially every compiler eventually had at least an option to diagnose extensions.

* Elric and Eternal Champion, two series by Michael Moorcock, is one of many who offer Chaos-Evil (- Hell ) and Uniformity-Good (- Heaven ) as equally unacceptable extremes which must be held in balance.

As a result of his standout play, Aaron received two offers from MLB teams via telegram ; one offer was from the New York Giants, the other from the then Boston Braves.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

There are two types of cover plates: traditional open designs of stamped metal or plastic, which are simply there to be held, and enclosed designs ( such as the Hohner Meisterklasse and Super 64, Suzuki Promaster and SCX ), which offer a louder tonal quality.

The new structure would be located to the east of the original building, and tasked with two functions: offer a large space for public appreciation of various popular collections ; and house office space as well as archives for scholarship and research.

Michael Chertoff, then-head of the criminal division of the U. S. Department of Justice, then directed the prosecutors to offer Lindh a plea bargain, to which, Lindh would plead guilty to two charges: — supplying services to the Taliban (,,, and ) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony ().

On the other hand, when beliefs are heterogeneous, news providers differentiate their offer and segment the market, by providing news stories that are slanted towards the two extreme positions in the spectrum of beliefs.

The two mobile operators, mCel and Vodacom, also offer Internet access using 3G.

It was two years later, in 1914 that the Sisters partnered with Dalhousie University, enabling Mount Saint Vincent to offer the first two years of a bachelors ' degree program to be credited toward a Dalhousie degree.

Modern mainframes, notably the IBM zSeries, System z9 and System z10 servers, offer two levels of virtualization: logical partitions ( LPARs, via the PR / SM facility ) and virtual machines ( via the z / VM operating system ).

Suspicious of the two men, Garza refused the offer but did not report them to authorities.

Regarding energy conservation, the television series and books offer two explanations:

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

To form spout, between two designs, dampen area slightly and gently push clay outward.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

These two isomers of butene are slightly different in their chemical and physical properties.

... an 11th-century MS ; an 11th-century Mercian poet using an archaic poetic dialect ; and 11th-century standard literary dialect that contained early and late, cross-dialectical forms, and admitted spelling variations ; and ( perhaps ) two 11th-century scribes following slightly different spelling practices.

It is only played with two bowls each, the Jack also has a bias and is only slightly smaller than the Bowls.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

The 1987 election saw the Alliance's share of the votes drop slightly and it now had 22 MP's, and in the election's aftermath Liberal leader David Steel proposed a merged of the two parties.

Bongos have two heavy and slightly spiralled horns that slope over their back and like in many other antelope species, both the male and female bongos have horns.

The length of the interval between two such successive events may be allowed to vary slightly during the year, or it may be averaged into a mean solar day.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

Collagen is a composed of a triple helix, which generally consists of two identical chains ( α1 ) and an additional chain that differs slightly in its chemical composition ( α2 ).

There are two very slightly different ways to calculate the odds and house edge of this bet.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

The commentary takes on a slightly different dimension than his previous commentaries by using a fictitious photographer have a conversation with two friends to discuss the photos.

They also discuss how alleged caste impurity and alleged racial inferiority, concepts often quickly assumed to be slightly different, are superficial terms, two faces of identical inner psychological processes, which expressed themselves in Japan and other countries of the world.

In 1966, the team modified the jerseys, which now featured only two sleeve stripes, slightly wider ; the socks followed the same pattern.

The Ravenna Cosmography includes the last two names ( in slightly different forms, as " Tamaris " and " Uxelis "), and adds several more names which may be settlements in the territory.

to mark the distinction between two similarly spelled words but with slightly differing pronunciation.

The fortified version is blended with brandy to make two styles, the younger, slightly weaker Fine, which is at least 17 % abv and aged at least four months ; and the Superiore, which is at least 18 %, and aged at least two years.

Similarly, release print stocks usually are available only in two varieties: a " normal " print or a deluxe print ( on more-costly print film like Kodak Vision Premiere ) with slightly greater saturation and contrast.

This form of floorball is also slightly shorter, with only two periods of 15 to 20 minutes each played.

The 8th film in the Godzilla series, it was also the second of two island themed Godzilla adventures that Toho produced with slightly smaller budgets than most of the Godzilla films from this time period.