Sentence examples for ancient cousin from inspiring English sources

At a dance, Moses Wapshot met an ancient cousin of his, Justina Wapshot Molesworth Scaddon, who was the widow of a five-and-ten-cent store millionaire, and lived in an old castle called Clear Haven.

By John Cheever The New Yorker, December 1 , 1956P. 50 At a dance, Moses Wapshot met an ancient cousin of his, Justina Wapshot Molesworth Scaddon, who was the widow of a five-and-ten-cent store millionaire, and lived in an old castle called Clear Haven.

For example, evolutionary biologists disagree about what sort of mutations are most likely to contribute to adaptive evolutionary change (Hoekstra and Coyne 2007), whether Homo habilis is the direct ancestor of modern humans or an ancient cousin (Fig. 3; Spoor et al. 2007), and how important hybridization is in the process of speciation (Mallet 2007)—to name just a few.

(With declining populations, by the way, that species may soon go the way of its ancient cousin -- along with one in four of today's mammals).

Their ancient cousins' dining habits were more like those of killer whales: they ate other whales.

Our ancient cousins would have been at a significant disadvantage if they could not tell when a colleague or stranger was enraged, for instance.

In recent years, researchers have discovered that Neanderthals made tools, buried their dead, used fire and maybe even adorned themselves with feathers, bucking our ancient cousins' reputation as stocky brutes.

Most of the genes in the endosymbionts were transferred to the nuclear genome during evolution, resulting in much smaller current organelle genomes than their ancient cousins [ 2- 4].

At the other end of the scale, mtDNA from our ancient cousins, such as Homo neanderthalensis [ 33]), might provide information as to how microarrays perform at less than 8% divergence.

Like our ancient reptilian cousins, they lay eggs.

This Hebrew phrase is a "close cousin" to the ancient beliefs embraced by Jesus and his followers, Wright said.