Transitional stages of technology often have their own imperfect charms, memorable in ways that no one could have predicted.
Western volunteers for Isis are mostly youth in transitional stages in their lives – immigrants, students, between jobs or girlfriends, having left their homes and looking for new families.
If infrastructure isn't too badly damaged the gap between the tarpaulin and transitional stages can be only a matter of weeks.
His output embraced a wide range of styles: Russophile and neoclassical in the 1950s (his first two symphonies), serial in the mid-60s (the Third and Fourth Symphonies), and neo-romantic in the 70s, with transitional stages in between.
This was the first of four transitional stages, which take the riders to the Alps by early next week, and on Saturday the heat is set to continue for the second of the four through the Aveyron and Lozère hills to Mende, where the stage finish is at the town's aerodrome on top of a steep 3km climb, the Croix-Neuve.
The rationale for grouping is mainly based on the transitional stages of the Chinese economic structure (Qiu & Liu 2013).
If natural selection really does operate through a series of small, gradual changes, then the world should be awash in transitional stages.
One of the major criticisms revolved around the perceived absence of transitional stages (of characters) in either the fossil record or in living species.
The presented research demonstrates the capability of the portable 3D (LASER) scanning technique to determine four transitional stages during the early age morphogenesis of a LWC surface.
Regarding the computer simulation indicating rapid evolution of a camera-style eye, Dawkins (1996, p. 176) noted that such an evolutionary rate would be geologically instantaneous, so finding fossils recording transitional stages would be a matter of extreme luck.
We provide a synthetic framework centered on the idea that different evolutionary processes dominate during different transitional stages, beginning with changes in gene regulation and culminating in novel genes later on.
