Word: snapshots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coverage of the fishapod was excellent [April 17]. The classification of species gives the impression of significant changes having occurred within a single generation, a misunderstanding often used by antievolutionists. But a species is a snapshot that represents a lineage at a convenient point. Every child has differences from its parents, and over a great number of generations some changes will spread through a population, owing to selective breeding. The fishapod is a valuable find as a missing link?another snapshot in a continuum of change. Robert Fraser Kingston, Canada...
...coverage of the fishapod was excellent. The classification of species gives the impression of significant changes having occurred within a single generation, a misunderstanding often used by antievolutionists. But a species is a snapshot that represents a lineage at a convenient point. Every child has differences from its parents, and over a great number of generations some changes will spread through a population, owing to selective breeding. The fishapod is a valuable find as a missing link--another snapshot in a continuum of change. Understanding that such changes are constant should help people find common ground on evolution...
...physical education class in the autumn sunshine. Within the space of a few minutes you watch them encourage and console one another, succeed and fail, concentrate like demons and muck about amid noise and mirth. And you have to wonder, whatever the arguments to the contrary: Is this a snapshot of something - school life - that children could really be better off without...
...even 200,000 people camping, cooking out, having a good time. And Mario, you know, he is capable of being at the center of any good time." He is also a guy who understands the concept of synergy: on the back of the NASCAR book you'll find a snapshot of Batali (sunglasses, regal smile, a gold marker in hand for autographs) standing beside NASCAR legend Richard Childress--and next to them is a bottle of wine from the vineyard (called La Mozza) that Batali and Bastianich own in Tuscany...
Photographs of bright-eyed students of all races sitting together are as much a staple of Harvard admissions brochures as the red bricks and green grass of the Yard. But a snapshot of a typical meal in a dining hall or a Saturday night party can make social life at Harvard seem far more monochrome...