Meanings of divergent evolution in English

Segregation is the essential condition on which divergent evolution is dependent.

However, 'rational' approaches using either natural divergent evolution or computational predictions based on chemical principles have been less successful.

As this is not the case, there remains no alternative but to assume divergent evolution from an indifferent form.

The vast range of habitats and metabolisms that prokaryotes occupy today would thus reflect divergent evolution after such a restricting event.

The age of isolation and divergent evolution is passing away, and that of international association and convergent social evolution has begun.

Nation thus stimulates nation, each furnishing the other with important variations in ideas, customs, institutions, and mechanisms resulting from long-continued divergent evolution.

Two separate 100-bp elements within the first NR2E1 intron were virtually identical between the three species, despite an estimated 450 million years of divergent evolution.