The point of this historical digression is to illustrate the conceptual and historical decoupling of Darwin's two "big ideas"—evolution (common ancestry) and the mechanism of natural selection.
The point of these digressions isn't merely spiteful and personal (though they are that, too).
This is not a mere digression, but central to the point of this and its companion article.
But he also wanted to be sure that no one missed the point of his biological digression: dinosaurs had ruled the earth for a hundred and fifty million years.
Recognition of this digression from classic teaching is critical to facilitate future optimal care, including consideration of use of oral agents.
Sometimes, you might wake in the night and ask yourself, what's the point of these evasions, digressions and frantic strategies of self-defence?
He achieved this partly with the help of a personal card-index system, but mainly through a process of free association: the cycle race, its characters and its surroundings served as a point of departure for digressions into anecdote, frequently personal – his pet rabbit, the wine he had drunk for dinner the previous evening or his prostate treatment in hospital.
As a point of interest, although a digression from the focus of this review, gene sharing is not restricted to lens crystallins and occurs extensively throughout the animal kingdom (Piatigorsky 2007).
This digression may seem off the point of "What Happens in Vegas," but because its director, Tom Vaughan, brings nothing of interest to the movie, including filmmaking, there isn't anything to say other than to note its insulting ugliness and ineptitude.
And yet the going is often hard here, and certain questions keep coming to mind: What is the point of all these citations, this slurry of synonyms, this genre blurring (as the dust jacket proudly calls it), these digressions?
