The Ursinae subfamily originated approximately 4.2 million years ago.[16] The oldest known polar bear fossil is a 130,000 to 110,000-year-old jaw bone, found on Prince Charles Foreland in 2004.[17] Fossils show that between ten to twenty thousand years ago, the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear.[18] Polar bears are thought to have diverged from a population of brown bears that became isolated during a period of glaciation in the Pleistocene[19] or from the eastern part of Siberia, (from Kamchatka and the Kolym Peninsula).[18]
Who is my claimant? A claimant is the person who is providing evidence of the establishment of permanent legal residence in Florida. For independent students*, the claimant is the student. Documentation substantiating independent status will be required. (Please see the Proving Financial Independence Section )
Claims, Premises, Arguments, Issues. A claim,or assertion,is a statement that could be put into the form of a declarative sentence. It can be in the form of a factor judgment,although the distinction between these two is often a matter of social consensus. A premiseis a claim that supports another claim. An argument, at its simplest, is a claim that is supported by a premise. In full texts, the main claim, or conclusion,is often supported by many premises, which are themselves supported by simple arguments (sometimes called sub-arguments).