Sentence examples for direct ancestry from inspiring English sources

"If you take sediba as a metaphor for evolutionary change, it is a whole lot more powerful than the claim for direct ancestry," Dr. Tattersall said.

Therefore, we might expect to find many unique characteristics (autapomorphies) of fossil species that exclude them from direct ancestry but that also provide keys to reconstructing the common ancestor of later species.

Regardless, australopiths had a rich evolutionary history deserving of study independent of questions about our direct ancestry.

Fig. 2 Phylogenies illustrating the difference between a direct ancestry and b the more typical relationship fossils with transitional features have to modern organisms.

Figure 2 illustrates the difference between direct ancestry (a) and the more typical relationship fossils with transitional features have to their modern counterparts (b).

From both the teeth and skull, A. zeuxis may be the "earliest evidence" for extreme sexual dimorphism in primates "in or near our direct ancestry," says Simons.

Though influenced by the religious myths of Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Egypt, Greek literature has no direct literary ancestry and appears self-originated.

Federal officials objected to a ruling last month by the tribe's highest court that found only people of direct Cherokee ancestry could be members of the tribe and vote in the upcoming election, essentially denying ballots to some 2,800 freedmen descendants.

For example, 58% of herd-episodes in beef herds contained animals with direct dairy ancestry.

Phylogenetic relationships show these two pol-like protein sequences do not have direct shared ancestry, therefore it is an unlikely candidate TE responsible for the relocation of the SDR cassette in all salmonid genomes (fig. 6).

Several geneticists (see for ex de Duve in "Singularities"ref 94) have pointed out that "Eve" was not the only woman to bear children who are ancestors of living people (their nuclear genes are still with us); the concept only illustrates a bottleneck of direct female ancestry passing through one individual.