Sentence examples for ancestral condition from inspiring English sources

This method incorporates morphological data on derived (extant) taxa and reconstructs the ancestral condition from the phylogeny.

To do so, we assume that the outgroup is likely to carry the ancestral condition for any sites that vary within the study group.

As that is the oldest record of a wire spring in mouse traps with one pivoting striker (Mascall 1590), it is probably the ancestral condition.

We expect that all change is for the better and that any derived taxon or condition is not only new but "improved" from the "primitive" (ancestral) condition.

Eleven beautifully preserved skeletons of early birds provide evidence that having four wings—not two was the ancestral condition for early birds.

Studies of fossil flowers and plant genetics have shown that radial symmetry is the ancestral condition, whereas bilateral symmetry has evolved many times independently in various plant families.

Here, we show that the ancestral condition for all mammalian groups is of solitary individuals and that social monogamy is derived almost exclusively from this social system.

Based on this cladistic analysis, Mahakala suggests that the ancestral condition for dromaeosaurids is non-volant.

And as I begin to see a new wave of "progress" come within both communities, I also begin to become frustrated with what is now becoming the "gay-washing" of my ethnic heritage and ancestral condition.

The ancestral condition of the anterior dentition on the lower jaw, based on Eocene primate fossils, suggests that earliest primates had lacked a differentiated toothcomb.

The third suggests that black-and-white plumage evolved once from the blue-and-white ancestral condition, and later the mainland species re-evolved blue plumage.