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  • Thumbnail for Divergent boundary
    In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature...
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    Divergent evolution or divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading to...
    15 KB (1,627 words) - 00:17, 24 April 2024
  • tree in instances where other evidence is scarce. For example, neutral human DNA sequences are approximately 1.2% divergent (based on substitutions) from...
    244 KB (27,635 words) - 07:28, 25 May 2024
  • mechanism driving genetic divergence in allopatry and can be amplified by divergent selection. Pre-zygotic and post-zygotic isolation are often the most cited...
    94 KB (10,106 words) - 03:04, 30 March 2024
  • Convergent thinking is a term coined by Joy Paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking. It generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer...
    19 KB (2,236 words) - 06:06, 29 February 2024
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    motion determines the type of plate boundary (or fault): convergent, divergent, or transform. The relative movement of the plates typically ranges from...
    112 KB (13,618 words) - 11:56, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evidence for speciation by reinforcement
    between two populations of species by reducing the production of hybrids. Evidence for speciation by reinforcement has been gathered since the 1990s, and...
    53 KB (5,843 words) - 07:24, 19 February 2024
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    child has significant exotropia when reading or viewing near objects or if evidence shows that the eyes are losing their ability to work as a single unit (binocular...
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  • The theory of divergent modes of religiosity (DMR) is intended to explain how religions are created, transmitted, and changed. DMR theory was first developed...
    12 KB (1,292 words) - 05:54, 14 June 2023
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    mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused...
    89 KB (9,961 words) - 20:17, 27 May 2024
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    crust, where they accommodate the lateral offset between segments of divergent boundaries, forming a zigzag pattern. This is a result of oblique seafloor...
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    dentition evolved about 300,000 years ago. The more divergent Denisovan mtDNA has been interpreted as evidence of admixture between Denisovans and an unknown...
    68 KB (7,083 words) - 22:25, 29 April 2024
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    sequence similarity. Significant similarity is strong evidence that two sequences are related by divergent evolution from a common ancestor. Alignments of multiple...
    40 KB (4,046 words) - 04:21, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dire wolf
    C. d. dirus. In 2021, a DNA study found the dire wolf to be a highly divergent lineage when compared with the extant wolf-like canines, and this finding...
    107 KB (11,584 words) - 11:33, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Indo-European languages
    This is the earliest-recorded of all Indo-European languages, and highly divergent from the others due to the early separation of the Anatolian languages...
    111 KB (10,144 words) - 19:57, 27 May 2024
  • surprise of the weekend". During that weekend, it finished third behind Divergent and Muppets Most Wanted at the box office. The film began its international...
    26 KB (2,373 words) - 16:19, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human evolution
    the molecular clock which estimates the time required for the number of divergent mutations to accumulate between two lineages, the approximate date for...
    253 KB (26,320 words) - 13:27, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atlantic–Congo languages
    Atlantic–Congo. In the infobox, the languages which appear to be the most divergent are placed at the top. The Atlantic branch is defined in the narrow sense...
    7 KB (411 words) - 04:01, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ainu languages
    Ainu are alternately considered a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects of a single language isolate. The only surviving variety is Hokkaido...
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