Sentence examples for be a transitional form from inspiring English sources

It may be a transitional form of the virus, akin to the fossils paleontologists have found of feathered dinosaurs that couldn't fly.

The new find named Puijila darwini may be a transitional form between land dwellers and fully marine forms.

The unusual peristome in Buxbaumia is now thought to be a transitional form between the nematodontous (cellular teeth) peristome of the Polytrichopsida and the arthrodontous (cell wall teeth) peristome of the Bryopsida.

After Dubois let a number of scientists examine the fossils in a series of conferences held in Europe in the 1890s, they started to agree that Java Man may be a transitional form after all, but most of them thought of it as "an extinct side branch" of the human tree that had indeed descended from apes, but not evolved into humans.

The consensus had been that habilis was a transitional form between Australopithecus and Homo erectus.

It could have been Homo erectus, known to have been in Africa and Asia at the time, or it could have been a transitional form known as archaic Homo sapiens, says archaeologist Robert Ackerman of Washington State University in Pullman.

Despite Dubois' argument, few accepted that Java Man was a transitional form between apes and humans.

Dubois's central claim was that Pithecanthropus was a transitional form between apes and humans, a so-called "missing link".

"It's a transitional form; it's a missing link, if you like," said the study's lead author, Kenneth Rose, a paleontologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dubois' use of the phrase has been widely misinterpreted as a retraction, but it was intended an argument to support his claim that Pithecanthropus was a transitional form.

Only in late 1892, when he determined that the cranium measured about, did Dubois consider that his specimen was a transitional form between apes and humans.