It seems to me that we are observing an evolution "transition" and 150,000 years from now, the near edges of Andromeda will have evolved to geometrically accommodate what we are seeing now on the far edges!
We have shown previously that for social traits with a strong phylogenetic signal, such as social organization or dispersal patterns, it is possible to infer models of evolution, transition rates between states and ancestral states at nodes on the primate phylogeny.
Mapping of an important life-history character (amphidromy) revealed two separate instances of trait evolution, a transition that has occurred repeatedly in Cottus.
The evolution of transition from MCD to UNCD using focused plasma jet and induced effects on the optical transparency and mechanical properties of the as-grown diamond films were investigated.
An experimental study on flow patterns for water boiling in horizontal heated tubes was conducted to observe the evolution and transition of flow patterns while controlling various parameters, such as heat flux, mass velocity, and tube diameter.
The rapid evolution of 'Transition Towns' and their diffusion across Europe is a striking example of the latter aspect [7].
As a bonus, because we are all so invested in each others evolution, the transition to becoming close friends has been a seamless one.
On the time-scales of evolution, the transition from unicellular to multicellular life in Volvox is thus a quite recent occurrence when compared to other shifts to multicellularity.
To estimate the relative timing of origins, diversification, body form evolution and transition in habitat, Bayesian molecular dating methods were implemented in BEAST v1.5.2 (Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees) [ 111].
Arboretum is based on a generative probabilistic model of module evolution via transition matrices (e.g., Figure 5A), and models expression generation at extant species via Gaussian mixture models, with a mean and variance for each time point of measurement in each species.
In hymenopteran evolution, multiple transitions between host species, developmental stages and modes of parasitoidism are considered key events linked to enormous adaptive radiations4,5,6,7,8 and an estimated 10 20% of all extant insects are parasitoid wasps9,10.
