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].
Therefore important changes (Tomes' processes, prismatic enamel) appeared in the mammalian lineage after it diverged from sauropsids, and before the divergence of marsupials, because the main ameloblast features and enamel structure are observed in current marsupial representatives, e.g. opossum [ 54].
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.
The phylogenetic position of Microraptor, however, suggests that it diverged from the main evolutionary line leading to birds and flight, so the animal's four-winged condition is an unusual, independently evolved state.
It will help document two important sets of genetic changes: those that occurred between 5.7 million years ago, when the human line split from the line leading to chimpanzees, and 300,000 years ago, when Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans parted ways; and second, the changes in the human line after it diverged from Neanderthals.
