Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

Life has evolved from simple combinations of molecules in the sea to complex combinations in man.

These stateless societies are not less evolved than societies with states, but chose to conjure the institution of authority as a separate function from society.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

The first major groups of amphibians developed in the Devonian period from lobe-finned fish similar to the modern coelacanth and lungfish, which had evolved multi-jointed leg-like fins with digits that enabled them to crawl along the sea bottom.

When they evolved from lunged fish, amphibians had to make certain adaptations for living on land.

All modern amphibians are included in the subclass Lissamphibia, superorder Salientia, which is usually considered a clade, a group of species that have evolved from a common ancestor.

Asterales are organisms that seem to have evolved from one common ancestor.

In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

The digits 1 to 9 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system evolved from the Brahmi numerals.

Various symbol sets are used to represent numbers in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, all of which evolved from the Brahmi numerals.

It has been made from a variety of materials ; from rudimentary leather protection, personal armour evolved to Mail and full plated suits of armour.

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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

The steel-string acoustic guitar evolved from the nylon-or gut-string classical guitar, and because steel strings have higher tension, heavier construction is required overall.

The anthroposophical view of evolution considers all animals to have evolved from an early, unspecialized form.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

Astyanax jordani, however, is another blind cave fish, independently and recently evolved from the sighted surface form, which is sometimes confused with the cave form of A. mexicanus.

Throughout the years the structure of the guards has evolved, going from convoy to squadron, to regiment and, subsequent to 1942, to division.

The Precision Bass ( or " P-bass ") evolved from a simple, uncontoured " slab " body design similar to that of a Telecaster with a single coil pickup, to a contoured body design with beveled edges for comfort and a single four-pole " single coil pickup.

* Old Bulgarian ( 9th to 11th century, also referred to as Old Church Slavonic ) – a literary norm of the early southern dialect of the Common Slavic language from which Bulgarian evolved.

The establishment of dragoons evolved from the practice of sometimes transporting infantry by horse when speed of movement was needed.

Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study and practice.

Most life in Known Space shares similar biochemistries, since they evolved from the Thrintun practice of seeding barren worlds with food yeast which they used to feed their slaves.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

The modern Western military salute evolved from the practice of men raising their hats as a gesture of respect.

According to Bruce E. Wright, “ the Governing Junta of National Reconstruction agreed, under Sandinista leadership, that these principles had guided it in putting into practice a form of government that was characterized by those principles .” It is generally accepted that these following principles have evolved the “ ideology of Sandinismo .” Three of these ( excluding popular participation, which was presumably contained in Article 2 of the Constitution of Nicaragua ) were to ultimately be guaranteed by Article 5 of the Constitution of Nicaragua.

T ' ai chi ch ' uan theory and practice evolved in agreement with many Chinese philosophical principles, including those of Taoism and Confucianism.

Therefore dreaming evolved to replicate these threats and continually practice dealing with them.

Byrd also played a role in the emergence of the new verse anthem, which seems to have evolved in part from the practice of adding vocal refrains to consort songs.

and to have evolved into a way of saving the fetus, with Roman practice requiring a living mother be in her 10th month of pregnancy before the procedure was resorted to, reflecting the knowledge that she could not survive the delivery.

Vajrayana is a complex and multifaceted system of Buddhist thought and practice which evolved over several centuries.

The practice of not eating chametz has evolved to the point of not eating even derivatives of kitniyot, such as corn syrup.

The osteopathic profession has evolved into two branches, non-physician manual medicine osteopaths and full scope of medical practice osteopathic physicians.

" Within a century of the Norman Conquest of 1066, as in the case of Thomas Becket in 1164, there arose the practice of sending to each greater baron a personal summons demanding his attendance at the King's Council, which evolved into the Parliament and later into the House of Lords, whilst as was stipulated in Magna Carta of 1215, the lesser barons of each county would receive a single summons as a group through the sheriff, and representatives only from their number would be elected to attend on behalf of the group.

For 500 years after the fall of the Roman empire, the practice of military engineering barely evolved in the west.

The practice of whipping and necklacing offenders and political opponents evolved in the 1980s during the apartheid era in South Africa.

This means that a person can be Ashkenazi but not considered a Jew by some of those within the Jewish communities, making the term " Ashkenazi " more applicable as broad ethnicity which evolved from the practice of Judaism in Europe.

The practice of astrology, today considered pseudoscience, evolved from the human desire to forecast the future.

Jamaican music's influence on music styles in other countries includes the practice of toasting, which was brought to New York City and evolved into rapping.

In the early 1970s, Deejays such as DJ Kool Herc took the practice of toasting to New York City, where it evolved into rap music.