Sentence examples for a quite ancient from inspiring English sources

This may explain why the ancestral population size seemed underestimated even for a quite ancient bottleneck (Fig. 3E).

The Cârvâka school material anthologized in Radhakrishnan and Moore, 1957, Sourcebook, Ch. 7, pp. 227-49, is the surviving philosophical material growing out of a largely lost apparently quite ancient hedonist and materialist tradition.

From the photograph, which had been e-mailed to him, Pääbo had decided that the skullcap could be quite ancient — from an early Neanderthal, or even a Homo heidelbergensis.

"It feels as if you're throwing money into the wind," she says, "but it feels quite ancient too, a lovely thing to do.

"This is an exciting finding, because it indicates that the molecular mechanisms underlying the segmentation clock are really quite ancient," says David Turner, a neurobiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who studies Notch in vertebrates.

These approaches can thus be very sensitive to past demographic events that shape the patterns of ancestral diversity over a timescale of neutral coalescence, which can include quite ancient demographic events.

The extant body of heroic poetry ranges from quite ancient to modern works, produced over a widespread geographic area.

For example, a large proportion of predicted redundant gene pairs were quite ancient in their origin.

Our studies suggest that the origin of the B-box domain is quite ancient and probably dates back to a common ancestor of plants and metazoans.

The age estimates are quite ancient and rule out dispersal across a southern Afro-Arabian landbridge (10 5.3 Ma) and overwater dispersal (5.3 Ma to present), but are consistent with the separation of the Arabian Plate from mainland Africa as a result of the Red Sea formation during the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (27 23 Ma) (Fig.  5) [ 24, 25].

Secularism has its own "saints" and "scriptures," some quite ancient, as Pierre Hadot demonstrates in Philosophy as a Way of Life.