Sentence examples for close common from inspiring English sources

In the 1980s it was discovered that dinosaurs and the Pterosauria, a group containing flying reptiles called pterosaurs, shared some important features of the skull, vertebral column, and limbs that indicated a close common ancestry.

Early on it was recognized that, as a group, dinosaurs appear to be most closely allied to crocodilians, though T.H. Huxley had proposed in the 1860s that dinosaurs and birds must have had a very close common ancestor in the distant past.

In other words, Heteronectes, Amphistium, and living flatfishes all share a close common ancestor.

Regardless, the exaggerated prose about "rewriting textbooks" might have been justified if a group like mouse-shark really was supported as sharing a close common ancestor.

On the other side, the Geodiidaep share a close common ancestor with the newly defined Pachastrellidae.

Meanwhile, the diversified streptaster set (spirasters, metasters, plesiasters) that developed in the Theneidae and Vulnellidaep may have been reduced to amphiasters in the ancestor of Clade A. On one side, the Ancorinidaep share a close common ancestor with the lithistids/Characella/Neamphius.

" 'Sterile' is the closest common term.

A primate skull unearthed outside of Mecca in Saudi Arabia is the closest common ancestor to apes and Old World monkeys, researchers say, and helps date the split.

Within the class Thaliacea the orders Doliolida and Salpida perhaps have a closer common ancestry with each other than with the order Pyrosomida, but this is not clear from the arrangement.

What we want is that a causally sufficient set of variables include all closest common causes.

Then C is a closest common cause of A and B, while F is not.