Sentence examples for closer relatives from inspiring English sources

But Dawkins introduces us to jellyfish only deep in the book, after we've met many closer relatives.

How come dinosaurs, turtles, octopuses, birds and fishes all have beaks but some of their closer relatives don't?

Initial analysis on bones of crocodiles, which some scientists have argued are closer relatives to birds than dinosaurs, is inconclusive, with portions appearing birdlike and others mammal-like.

It is now believed that the Eurypterida is the sister group to the Arachnida, making the sea scorpions closer relatives of the scorpions and spiders than to horseshoe crabs.

If you looked only at that one piece of DNA in comparing humans, chimpanzees and orangutans, you'd falsely conclude that orangutans are closer relatives to humans than are chimpanzees.

Because closer relatives share more genes, animals that provide for their close kin are helping promote the survival and reproduction of their own genes, exactly what natural selection is all about.

The crosses between C. papaya × Vasconcellea quercifolia show some level of fertility and thus proved to be helpful in backcrossing programs, but the percent success is so low that closer relatives of this crop should be explored for crosses that are more resistant and tolerant.

The negative correlation between taxonomic diversity and nestedness ranking indicates that permanence of genera in face of environmental change within this province was higher if resources were shared among more equitably distributed genera (with similar proportions of species) rather than in communities with a higher incidence of closer relatives in one or few genera.

Guess which one is your closer relative?

darlingi genomes (closer relative from subgenus Nyssorynchus).

"They are our closest relatives".