Sentence examples for a transitional form from inspiring English sources

(Part of the reason may be the common misconception that paleoanthropologists are in search of "the missing link"—a transitional form that would clinch, for once and for all, the case for our shared common ancestry with the rest of the primates and without which the case is incomplete. For a discussion of this misconception, see Mead 2009).

The consensus had been that habilis was a transitional form between Australopithecus and Homo erectus.

It represents a transitional form between marine crocodiles that fed on small prey and their supersized relatives.

It may be a transitional form of the virus, akin to the fossils paleontologists have found of feathered dinosaurs that couldn't fly.

The skull possesses a mixture of primitive and advanced features, precisely the combination that might be anticipated in a transitional form between lower and higher primates.

Archaeopteryx, first named in 1861, is still regarded in scientific circles as essentially the earliest bird in the fossil record and this alone can be used to make a grand case as a transitional form.

The tree topology is consistent with cv-lysozyme 3 and its C. gigas ortholog representing a preserved transitional form between the ancestral defensive function within C. viriginica and a derived digestive one.

Indeed, Archaeopteryx was discovered just two years later, in 1861, and represents a classic transitional form between dinosaurs and birds.

If cv-lysozyme 3 represents a preserved transitional form between the ancestral defense function of lysozyme and its presumably derived digestive function, then cv-lysozyme 3 and its orthologs should fall phylogenetically as the sister group to the digestive lysozymes.

"It's a very nice transitional form".

Our prediction is that this model will become a more popular transitional form of democracy.