Snakes arose from lizards and are thus considered to be a highly specialized group of limbless lizards.
Whatever the explanation, the more urban you are, the more likely you are to want your pet to be a highly specialized killer.
For instance, the phenomenon of filial imprinting, first seriously analyzed by the Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz, appears to be a highly specialized form of learning in which a newborn animal (e.g., a chick, duckling, or gosling) rapidly learns to follow the first salient, moving object it sees.
Additional fossil specimens have also been discovered and described, and what was once thought to be a possible missing link between annelid worms and mollusks now appears to be a highly specialized branch on the molluscan tree that tells us little about the ancestral mollusk condition.
Additional fossil specimens have also been discovered, and what was once thought to be a possible missing link between annelid worms and mollusks now appears to be a highly specialized branch of the molluscan tree that tells us little about the ancestral mollusk condition.
She claims that there is no plausible story to be told here, since the capacity to grasp independent moral truths would have to be "a highly specialized, sophisticated capacity" akin to the human eye, and no such entity could plausibly emerge "as the purely incidental byproduct of some unrelated capacity that was selected for on other grounds entirely" (Street 2006, 142 43).
The caricoid spikelet, characteristic of Carex and its satellite genera in the subfamily Caricoideae, is a highly specialized, reduced spikelet with uniformly unisexual flowers.
Funnier still, the Greenwich Village to which Dylan repaired in 1961 was a proudly exotic milieu -- the place to go "if you want to get out of America," as the folklorist Alan Lomax said -- and the folk scene was a highly specialized coterie within it.
Valuable professional service doesn't come cheap, and writing biomedical research grants is a highly specialized, demanding line of work.
