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From: Computer Technology Review
Date: 20041001
Author:Farajun, Eran
In the first edition of "The Origin of the Species", Charles Darwin never used the term "evolution". Instead, Darwin focused on the concept of "divergence" wherein new species with specialized characteristics emerged from the same main source; they didn't evolve from a secondary species. To illustrate this concept, Darwin used the Tree of Life with multiple branches, and the tree representing the core species or product. When divergence occurred, the tree (not an individual branch) sprouts a new branch--creating a distinct, new species instead of an offshoot or evolution of an ...
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