Sentence examples for ancient common ancestry from inspiring English sources

The importance of parsing homologous characters into those that denoted unique common ancestry and those that denoted more ancient common ancestry was recognized by several workers in the early half of the twentieth century.

There is nothing wrong with similarity per se, but we must parse out similarity that denotes unique, immediate, common ancestry from similarity that denotes ancient common ancestry from similarity unrelated to common ancestry (i.e., similarity due to convergence).

From mushrooms to mankind, the same system works because it all ultimately descended from ancient common ancestry in the history of life, and because the flexibility of nucleotide order allows for information to be carried that differs from species to species throughout the living world.

Broad distribution, in presence of lateral transfers, is hard to interpret as ancient common ancestry.

It shares common signatures with genomes of the Dekkera– Ogataea group, two other nitrate-assimilating yeasts, although no trace of synteny conservation could be identified with them, suggesting a very ancient common ancestry.

In all likelihood, Subtribe Artemisiinae and Artemisia s. l. originated in Eurasia sharing a relatively ancient common ancestry with Asian members of Leucantheminae and South African members of Subtribe Matricariinae [ 64].

Michael Walzer once wrote that in the absence of a common ancestry or an ancient homeland we become Americans anonymously, our symbols and ceremonies invented rather than inherited from a particular place, "the flag, the Pledge, the Fourth...are, as it were, all we have". The script prepared in advance, the arriving immigrant needs only to learn her lines, meet her marks, and recite the part.

However, it was possible to establish an upper size limit of 28 kb for the putative shared haplotype, suggesting that the common ancestry of our patients is ancient.

In summary, the analysis of gene order indicated that microsporidia share an exclusive common ancestry with the zygomycetes, and it was concluded that microsporidia evolved from ancient sexual fungi (Dyer 2008b; Lee et al. 2008; reviewed in Corradi and Keeling 2009).

Despite the diversity of β-propellers, their blades frequently show sequence similarity indicative of a common ancestry and are thought to be a result of independent amplification of an ancient blade-sized fragment [ 22, 23].

In ancient and medieval times and to a lesser extent today the Greek term was genos, which also indicates a common ancestry.