But it diverged from its original course, blown around by changing winds, then fell abruptly to earth, making an emergency landing.
They found that it diverged from its closest relatives about 1.51 million years ago.
Molecular dating indicated that, like several other marine invertebrates with similar antitropical distributions [ 80, 81], it diverged from its southern African sister lineage prior to the Holocene.
The position of the sequence within the clade suggests that it diverged from its closest insect homologs after the establishment of the tandem array.
Another argument against the redundancy model is that if a protein-coding gene was genuinely redundant then eventually, as it diverged from its functional paralog, it would accumulate an obvious inactivating mutation.
Because of its unique evolutionary position – it diverged from land-plants over a billion years ago – the genome and its gene catalogue have received much attention, especially since the recent publication of the draft genome [ 2].
Finally, the IGS index of D. arizonae is within the range of values reported for two populations of its sister species D. mojavensis, from which it diverged approximately 1 1.2 million years ago [ 20, 21].
Spoken Latin continued to change, and it diverged more and more from the Classical norms in grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
It began the same way -- a boy and his mother leave their home and cross the street -- but then it diverged: the boy is hit by a car.
The Israeli position, where it diverged from the Palestinian, was not about principle but focused primarily on the practical matter of how many (often violent) settlers the Israeli government would have to force back behind the Green Line.
Koestenbaum sees both continuity and discontinuity here: even as the Factory "extended the apartment philosophy Warhol first learned from decor-conscious gays", it diverged from the campy sensibility of his design studio.
