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Or that similar organisms (such as different dolphin lineages) will evolve to fill similar niches.

Convergence 2008

What always blows my mind about these lineages is that they seem to persist forever without either radiating or going extinct.

Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’? Darren Naish 2006

Stability of lineages is predicted by Darwinism in the event of longterm stability of environment.

Clear Thinking? 2005

For these objects they moved ten tribes or _ayllus_, which means among these barbarians "lineages" or "parties"; the names of which are as follows:

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

"euphemistically", as Barbara Everett put it, with the claims of two "lineages" - "lineage of sorrow; lineage of joy" - in a world of portentous quests and symbol-laden wintry landscapes.

Top stories from Times Online 2010

The process of evolution by natural selection is “a process in which the differential extinction and proliferation of interactors cause the differential perpetuation of the replicators that produced them” (Hull 1980, p. 318; see Brandon 1982, pp. Hull also introduced the concept of “evolvers,” which are the entities that evolve as a result of selection on interactors: these are usually what Hull calls lineages (Hull 1980).

Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

The "lineages" included different kinds of white blood cell, red cells, and the cells that generate blood clotting platelets.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

The "lineages" included different kinds of white blood cell, red cells, and the cells that generate blood clotting platelets.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

"lineages" of the Tlascalans who occupied the four quarters of the pueblo of Tlascalan were, in all probability, so many phratries.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

Since those first days, I have had many experiences with her family, one of the old samurai lineages.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010