"So you have birds flying before the evolution of the first birdlike dinosaurs.
Before the evolution of universal suffrage, most countries required special qualifications of their voters.
Organization of work may have begun before the evolution of Homo sapiens.
No mammals have ever reached this island to prey on them; it's like the world was before the evolution of mammals; it's a reptile-dominated world".
What we are ultimately searching for are fossils of the hominin ancestor that existed before the evolution of Homo floresiensis at least 700,000 years ago.
However, this would have been primarily before the evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants, the group to which most present-day plants, including those of deserts, belong).
Out of Africa 1 contends that earlier Homo species did in fact migrate from Africa before the evolution of H. sapiens.
Dr. Tocheri and his colleagues said the distinct species emerged from ancestors "that migrated out of Africa before the evolution of the shared, derived wrist morphology that is characteristic of modern humans, Neanderthals and their last common ancestor".
For one thing, there is evidence that australopithecines had been hunting large mammals for at least 600,000 years before the evolution of Homo erectus -- why such a long delay?
Before the evolution of the tiered bullpen, with left-handed specialists, setup men and a closer, teams often relied on top starters to take the ball in relief a few times a season.
"The division of life into its twin sexes occurred before the evolution of multi-cellular animals," he writes, by way of arguing that human beings are bound to care about this division.
