Sentence examples for direct ancestral from inspiring English sources

Maybe Archaeopteryx wasn't on the direct ancestral line to birds, but was part of an early experimentation in how to build a bird-like body".

The scientists said it was too early to know whether the skull represented a species on a direct ancestral line to humans.

The find challenged the conventional view that the specimen's contemporary, A. afarensis, was in the direct ancestral lineage of Homo sapiens.

Once you complete your research you will need to purchase the birth, death and marriage certificates (certified copies) for each generation back to the oldest Native American ancestor you can locate, to prove your direct ancestral line to them.

Bakker prominently features the adventures of a "fur-ball" (mammal), Aegialodon; according to the author, the emphasis was added because the Aegialodon is on the direct ancestral line to humans.

The first scenario assumes that Paleoamerican groups are the direct ancestral populations of Amerindians, and as such t is defined as the number of generations separating early and late American series.

"Shock waves reverberate throughout three generations," said Mr. Saint, who directed "Ancestral Voices" for a four-week run in May at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., where he is the artistic director.

Either of these facts can make it much more difficult for you to establish a direct Native American ancestral connection.

The most parsimonious source for these plastids is direct inheritance from ancestral polykrikoids.

The intercalation theories propose that the planktotrophic larvae are stages intercalated into an ancestral direct development.

Here, we provide direct evidence of ancestral insertion for 40.2% (898/2235) of all annotated INE-1 elements.