The flowering plants are represented by two divergent evolutionary lines, the monocotyledons and the dicotyledons, treated as separate classes within the division.
Although people and worms took divergent evolutionary paths some 600 million years ago, they retain many genetic mechanisms in common, including the insulin-signaling control of metabolism and, quite possibly, the ancient survival mechanism of living longer to ride out famines.
This distinction helps to discriminate between divergent evolutionary trajectories.
We examine the implications of divergent evolutionary paths for market structure and regulatory policy.
We both perform environmentally modifying activities (e.g., dam building) throughout our lives that are consistent with our shared and divergent evolutionary characteristics.
We identify fundamental and persistent differences between wired and wireless networking that will propel wired and wireless access network architectures on divergent evolutionary paths.
A library of mutants can thus display a distribution of properties from which highly divergent evolutionary pathways may emerge, resembling natural evolutionary processes.
Linder and Rieseberg (2004) and Vriesendorp and Bakker (2005) have pointed to the fact that the evolutionary history of many plant groups does not follow divergent evolutionary patterns, and hardly can be unravelled in a tree-building procedure.
Affinity maturation then leads to divergent evolutionary branches that either focus on a single glycan and protein segment (e.g., Ab PGT124) or engage multiple glycans (e.g., Abs PGT121 123).
But identifying our unique genes and other genetic differences between us and our primate cousins does not reveal the nature of that ancestor, nor what factors led to the genetic changes that underlie our divergent evolutionary paths.
Wild-derived inbred mice have divergent evolutionary histories and thus have strong potential to generate spurious assocations.
