Sentence examples for ancestral features from inspiring English sources

Later on, there is half a chapter on "exaptation" -- the idea that currently adaptive features of organisms may have originated as nonadaptive ancestral features.

Peramorphic descendants develop "beyond" the ancestor; padomorphic descendants retain juvenile ancestral features.

Unlike dinosaurs, whose ancestral features are preserved in birds, pterosaurs were an evolutionary dead end.

Nakalipithecus from Kenya is nearly ten million years old and thought by its discoverers to represent the ancestral features of the African apes (Kunimatsu et al. 2007).

It was not that the paleontologists suddenly accepted the evidence of the molecular biologists, who had made naïve statements about the presumed common ancestral features and habits of whales and hippos.

Most phylogenetic studies consider the Phyllocarida to be the sister group to the Eumalacostraca, together forming the taxon Malacostraca, so that the brain organization of N. herbstii may possess many ancestral features.

Adaptation may cause either the gain of a new feature, or the loss of an ancestral feature.

This is in principle consistent with a secondary loss of an ancestral feature (Wnt-mediated regulation) in cephalochordates.

This ability to recognize and adhere to damaged or "nonself" tissue is an ancestral feature of blood cells.

There is wide agreement that molting represents an excellent process for chemotherapeutic intervention, given that it is an ancestral feature of the phylum Nematoda and does not occur in vertebrates [32], [33].

Our identification of the PNOC gene in an amphibian gives a relative date for another interesting event, because the presence of a second nociceptin-like peptide in the frog precursor strengthens the hypothesis that this is an ancestral feature that has been lost in amniotes.