The news the following day that Mr Jobs had finally died followinga long battle with cancer turned the feeling of disappointment into one of deepsadness.
Over the course of 80 million years, they evolved into tractor-trailer sized, long-necked plant-eaters, like Apatosaurus, formerly known as Brontosaurus.
The evolution of North American horse, which was once presented as a classic textbook example of gradual evolution, is now providing equally compelling evidence for punctuated equilibrium.
The goal of the mission is to figure out the composition of the moon from crust to core and use that information to reconstruct the evolution of the moon.
There's nothing evil about surveys, but they can turn an inherently simple task, such as gathering customer feedback, into something complex and unwieldy.
From a detailed analysis of the salamanders' family tree, however, it is clear that the other lineages evolved from an ancestor that itself had lost the ability to metamorphose.
Our preference for sweets and fats is an evolved psychological mechanism. We do not consciously choose to like sweets and fats; they just taste good to us.