Sentence examples for ancestors less from inspiring English sources

By penalising mindless thuggery, it has tended to make our ancestors less violent and more clever than they would otherwise have been, and bequeathed us the world we have, in which only the most cunning of thugs get to the top.

Including different numbers of generations in the pedigree showed that most of the information in genome-wide breeding values prediction comes from animals with known common ancestors less than four generations back in the pedigree.

Regardless, our results suggest that the conclusion that the snake body plan evolved as an adaptation for a fossorial lifestyle is by no means foregone, and that burrowing taxa such as scolecophidians, and perhaps even anilioids, may have evolved from ancestors less committed to life underground [ 49].

Whilst, sugarcane and sorghum may have shared a common ancestor less than 10 million years ago and retain very similar gene order [[ 27],[ 28]].

Our vegetarian ancestors consumed less than a gram of salt a day and even heavy meat eaters took in only about 4 grams on good hunting days.

In Peru, the Spanish confiscated the imperial dead of the Incas, and burned the sacred ancestors of less privileged Indian communities.

As the number of genotyped offspring increased, the animal-specific imputation accuracies of the different categories of the most recent genotyped ancestor became more similar, which indicates that with multiple genotyped offspring, information on the ancestors was less relevant.

Predictor (3) geographical isolation from sex: According to clonal turnover/decay models (rev. in [ 13], see Introduction), clones living in (partial) isolation from their sexual ancestors are less likely to be replaced by new clones.

Read him not as an ancestor, still less as an idol, but as a contemporary.

In general, estimates of the time to the most recent common ancestor are less sensitive to reductions in the historical signal in mtDNA sequence data than phylogenetic estimation [33], a result consistent with our ability to recover similar coalescence times but not the changes in Nef seen when comparing the coding vs. HVRI+II skyline plots.

Analysis of dbSNP data (release 129) indicated that whilst ∼60% of 193,133 validated SNPs on chromosome 16, with known ancestral state, occur at a CpG site, only ∼12% of them have gained the ability to methylate since their common ancestor and less than 0.5% lie within at least 75 bp of each other, as per rs7202116 and rs7202996.