Understanding these facts helps in understanding how paleoanthropologists proceed in placing new fossil discoveries in the broad outline of human evolution.
However, the fact that modern whales have a rudimentary pelvis can only be explained by including the historical particulars the details of the explanation, such as the existence of extinct whales, like Basilosaurus, with leg bones, which paleontologists have found (see Thewissen and Bajpai (2001) for a general outline of whale evolution).
In the 1990s, the broad outlines of human evolution seemed fairly clear.
Actually, we have a very good idea of the basic outlines of human evolution.
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On the occasion of the Darwin bicentennial (and the sesquicentennial of the Origin of Species), we might find some newfound confidence about the outlines of the evolution of morality, echoing Darwin's concerns yet also updated with modern research.
Lucretius's epic on atoms, On the Nature of Things continued this tradition; so did the 18th-century doctor Erasmus Darwin, whose poem "The Temple of Nature" outlined a theory of evolution, following life-forms from micro-organisms to human society.
It is certainly possible that people with at least a little education have already heard of Darwin, who outlined the theory of evolution.
The archeological community largely agrees on the rough outline of the content, evolution, integration, and convergence of different cultural regions evidenced by these findings, although there are still many topics that remain controversial.
However, the outline of monocot Hb evolution is rather well understood.
Nonetheless, these results provide the first general outline of the chromosomal evolution in the Solanaceae.
