Sentence examples for an ancestral form from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Homo floresiensis arose from an ancestral form on a nearby island, such as Sulawesi, and thereafter crossed to Flores.

Both sounds are assumed to be derived from an ancestral form *kw in the Indo-European parent language.

Even his lay-up shot has an ancestral form; he is full of admiration for "the way Cliff Hagan pops up anywhere within six feet of the basket," and he tries to do the same.

This study refutes the hypothesis of Hának and Jezek (2001) that UCP4 is an ancestral form for all UCPs, and shows early evolutionary diversification of this protein family, which corresponds to their proposed functional diversity in regulation of proton leak, antioxidant defense and apoptosis.

The genes involved in breaking down lactose (the key sugar in milk products) and starch (the key nutrient in domesticated plants) were in an "ancestral" form, the team reports, meaning that hunter-gatherers were not good at digesting these foods, which later became essential to farming societies.

Panksepp had studied play vocalizations in animals for years before it occurred to him that they might be an ancestral form of laughter.

To illustrate retention of a shared ancestral form an American alligator looks more similar to a monitor lizard than a song sparrow, yet the alligator is more closely related to the sparrow than the lizard (Padian and Chiappe 1998) (Fig. 1).

It follows that replacing a proviral factor with a functional ancestral form of the same protein could prevent viral propagation without fatally compromising organismal fitness.

These results are consistent with an evolution driven by two successive WGD of a genomic region that contained a unique ancestral form of each of gphβ, nt, lin7 and kcna genes.

Phylogenetic tree, also called Dendrogram, a diagram showing the evolutionary interrelations of a group of organisms derived from a common ancestral form.

Evidence exists for both (i) the evolution of Loliums from a perennial Festuca subgenus Schedonorus ancestor [ 51], and (ii) a common ancestral form for both Lolium and Festuca [ 3, 4].