Sentence examples for ancestral communities from inspiring English sources

The African ancestral communities of the Garifuna people were featured in their crafts, foods and culture.

Because social information was valuable to the survival of ancestral communities, sharing the right kind of gossip may have come with heightened social status.

Progressive long-term salinity change appears to have promoted the diversification of bacterioplankton communities by modifying the composition of ancestral communities and by allowing the establishment of new taxa [ 101].

But at some point, in Dr. Woese's reconstruction, the mechanism for translating genetic information into proteins would have become more accurate and powerful, and the members of this ancestral community would have evolved to a stage at which it was difficult to incorporate new material into their genomes.

That kind of claim was easier to sustain if you portrayed your ancestral community as having arrived in what would then become its permanent home as a result of mass migration: such as the Anglo-Saxons to England, Bulgars to Bulgaria, and countless other examples.

This differential loss of structures probably triggered the early diversification of lineages emerging from an ancestral community (read below) [ 28].

A second principle involves deep molecular homology: all living organisms are descended from a common ancestor (or common ancestral community).

It is indeed very likely that most cells in an ancestral community having engendered the diversity of metabolic functions found in the three Domains possessed more than a single copy of every essential gene as well as numerous paralogous genes.

By favouring Woese's scenario of high rates of gene transfer prior to the emergence of the three domains, Glansdorff et al. can have their cake (or in their case, potato) and eat it too – a totipotent ancestral community of genes but without the burgeoning genome size.

Khoruts says it may be necessary to seek out ancestral microbial communities – the ones all humans hosted before the advent of the antibiotic era – within people in Africa or the Amazon.

Thanks to the drone, the team may have even spotted a great kiva, a type of underground ceremonial structure found in most Ancestral Puebloan communities but, strangely, not yet in Blue J. That's the kind of discovery that can help future teams of archaeologists pinpoint the most promising places to begin their excavations, Casana says.