What does “body > *” mean in CSS?

Question

I am trying to understand the CSS effects that jQTouch implements. http://www.jqtouch.com/

It has some CSS definitions that contain syntax like body > *<

Answer 1

body > * means "any element that is a direct child of the body element."

Compare this to body *, which means "any element that is a descendant of the body element." So this would also match the element in

...

, for example.