These five-legged creatures are supposed to have evolved far from human contact, yet they smile when they are happy, cry when they are sad, love, hate, smoke pipes, compose music, go window shopping, even get married.
In cases where the population-specific allele is the ancestral allele, both the alleles are estimated to have evolved far back in evolutionary history and the derived allele replaces the ancestral allele in all but one of the populations, probably through selective sweeps.
But if we haven't evolved far enough to elect a black president, maybe, just maybe, we could elect one who is half white and half black — a sort of easing in on our collective racial unconscious.
Comparisons across the four classes of chemistry we have reviewed show that the bacteria have evolved far better catabolic systems than the insects, even though the insects would seem to have more incentive to do so.
The liberal arts have necessarily evolved far beyond classical antiquity's quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) and trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) at every college or university.
As the population has aged, however, demand for home care has grown and the work has evolved far beyond companionship.
And outdoor kitchens, originally a West Coast phenomenon, have evolved far beyond the humble outdoor grill next to a picnic table.
Reforms that have vexed Wahhabi traditionalists, such as purging school books of anti-infidel venom, may meet less resistance.Modernising currents in Islamism have evolved far more slowly in Saudi Arabia than elsewhere.
It is high time Indians accept the fact that today's Pakistani youth have a distinct identity – one that has evolved far beyond that of "not India".
Martha Graham's stark, serious modernism may have evolved far beyond Duncan's rhapsodies.
