Sentence examples for a majority of extant from inspiring English sources
This is larger than a majority of extant placental mammals.
The latter is not a common life history trait in a majority of extant bony fishes.
Such an intermediate Kr/Kc ratio suggests that early placentals were not especially small: indeed, even when taking into account the covariance between body mass and Kr/Kc (which leads to a smaller inferred ancestral body mass), the estimated body mass of the last common ancestor of placentals is bigger than the mass of a majority of extant mammals.
The Hydrophiini last shared a common ancestor about ago with the majority of extant lineages diversified over the last.
The mitochondrion is a double-membrane enclosed organelle found in the vast majority of extant eukaryotes.
The fact that the majority of extant bat species are tropical suggests a tropical origin for current temperate long-distance migratory species, but the lack of intermediate forms in the same lineage argues against long-distance migration having evolved from sedentary through short-distance to long-distance migration.
The chaetae possessed by M. burgessensis and P. zenobia also reach a greater length relative to shell size when compared to the majority of extant taxa.
In agreement with various proposed selective advantages that multicellular growth could confer [ 97- 100], the results presented here indicate that the early origin of multicellularity played a key role in the evolutionary radiation that has led to the majority of extant cyanobacteria on the planet.
Perhaps the majority of extant glazed stonewares are salt-glazed.
While studies on radon concentration variability in the individual units in apartment blocks in various countries have been described, little data has been reported on variability in two-storey single-family dwellings, and the majority of extant studies consolidate living room and bedroom data early in the analysis.
Subsequently, this horizontally inherited gene was lost in the majority of extant Leotiomyceta.
