Sentence examples for ancient groups from inspiring English sources

The Stanford team compared them with other extremely ancient groups like the Mbuti of Zaire and the Biaka pygmies of Central African Republic and found the divergence between the Hadzabe and the Ju|'hoansi might be the oldest known split in the human family tree.

Because only a few of these ancient groups survived, humans are much less genetically diverse than other primates, even though there are many more of us on the planet.

If this is right, than consciousness may have arisen not independently in arthropods, mollusks and vertebrates, but only once in the common ancestor of these ancient groups, very early in animal evolution.

many paleontologists think that these animals arose 65 million years ago, this new work suggests that the two most ancient groups appeared a little more than 100 million years ago during the breakup of the giant southern continent called Gondwana.

Nor is there any acknowledgement that, in fact, diversification the splitting of lineages is actually key not only to survival of truly ancient groups (not only bacteria and horseshoe crabs, but monkeys as well, which have been around in recognizable form for tens of millions of years), but also to the actual generation of evolutionary novelty as new species split off from old.

Several landmark papers have described the genomes of ancient humans across West Eurasia, demonstrating the presence of large-scale, dynamic population movements over the last 10,000 years, such that ancestry across present-day populations is likely to be a mixture of several ancient groups [1 7].

The Ciconiiformes are generally accepted as being an ancient group.

M. dicki is a member of the most ancient subgroup of this ancient group.

(Spinal Tap notwithstanding, it wasn't the Druids who built Stonehenge but some other, more ancient group).

The cuckoos are an ancient group with uncertain phylogenetic affiliations and no living near relatives.

Uncovering the genomic essentials of this ancient group would be a coup.