A common phrase in evolutionary biology and related disciplines, divergent species means "distinct species that share a relatively recent common ancestor. Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of Biology concerned with the origin of Species from a Common descent, and Descent of species In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. An ancestor is a Parent or ( recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i " It is never used to describe two species if one is thought to be an ancestor of the other. How 'recent' the common ancestor must be depends on context. Context is a notion used in the language sciences ( Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse analysis, Pragmatics, Semiotics, etc
"Neanderthals and Homo sapiens most likely shed their common ancestor 500,000 years ago. They are divergent species, separated by a lengthy evolutionary history. . . " [1]
Notes and References
- ^ Ian Tattersall, quoted in "Solving the Mystery of the Much-Maligned Neanderthals", Monica Amarelo, AAAS News Archives, 15 October 2002[1]
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