Sentence examples for complex ancestors from inspiring English sources

A major point of my paper is that this group arose by reductive evolution from more complex ancestors, and in so doing lost both morphological and genetic complexity, and was accordingly free to lose bioenergetic complexity too.

Some modern evidence suggests that at least some flatworm species may be secondarily simplified from more complex ancestors.

Trichoplax must have more complex ancestors.

Yet every single one of these 1000 or more species arose by reductive evolution from more complex ancestors.

This suggests that the different lineages of ultrasmall archaea evolved from more complex ancestors by a reductive process.

Are today's simple actinobacterial species primitive, or are they degenerate descendants of morphologically much more complex ancestors?

Jefferson is a complex ancestor whom I inherit, and he's one of great interest to us nationally, so what is personal to me in reckoning with him blurs with our larger national struggle to inherit Jefferson's legacy.

This is an additional argument in favour of the idea of a complex ancestor for all contemporary eukaryotes.

Taken together, these results suggest that NCLDV grow by accretion of cellular genes rather than simplify themselves by genome reduction from a complex ancestor.

This mechanism has been traditionally considered less parsimonious, as it involves a complex ancestor and gene loss events occurring independently at multiple evolutionary lineages.

It is more likely that the dice was loaded in some way, such that reductive evolution from a more complex ancestor is altogether more likely than complexification (ugly word--is there a better one?) of prokaryotic ancestors.