Sentence examples for ancient residual from inspiring English sources
It could be that unfavorable climatic conditions forced a fast migration through Arabia without leaving a permanent track, but it is also possible that sample sizes have been insufficient to detect ancient residual lineages in the present day Arab populations.
In its scale and durability only Rome can match China among western empires – though plenty rose and fell, not least Persia, another truly ancient empire whose residual pride we and the Americans constantly fail to appreciate in proper historical context.
That is why they opted for the charade of appointing their chairmen to be chancellors of the duchy of Lancaster - an ancient office of state with residual revenue responsibilities.
Alternatively, paralogy may dominate over even longer time periods, but any residual similarity among ancient, highly divergent proteins has fallen below detection levels.
The geologic history of the Black Sea is not fully known, but it seems to be a residual basin of the ancient Tethys Sea, dating roughly from 250 to 50 million years ago.
In the late 1940s and '50s Runcorn helped establish the field of paleomagnetism i.e., the study of the residual magnetization that is evident in ancient rocks.
The refurbishment of ancient timber structures requires an acquaintance of the residual structural capacity of members in order to design reliable repairing interventions.
We reasoned that even though the ancestral transposon substrates of PGBD5 cannot be predicted due to its very ancient evolutionary origin (∼500 My), preservation of its transposase activity should confer residual ability to mobilize distantly related piggyBac-like transposons.
Clouard et al. (2000) constructed free-air anomaly and residual isostatic anomaly maps to assess the isostatic states associated with ancient magma chambers in some of the islands in French Polynesia, including Tahiti.
Residual landform, also called Relict Landform, landform that was produced as the remains of an ancient landscape, escaping burial or destruction to remain as part of the present landscape.
