Researchers have drawn up a "tree of life", just like a family tree, showing the relationships.
Geneticists have previously made estimates of the human-chimp lineage split, chiefly by drawing up a primate family tree, based on the number of DNA differences in a small section of the genome, and then anchoring the tree to some well-attested date in the fossil record, like the split between orangutans and the other primates.
And what he found surprised him.Place your betsTo find out which linguistic features travel together, and might thus be parts of Chomskyan modules, means drawing up a reliable linguistic family tree.
This is about drawing up a plan.
Ancestry is not destiny but there is a sort of power and confidence that comes from being able to trace your lineage and draw up a family tree.
The DNA allowed them to draw up a family tree of the virus that traced its ancestry through time and space.
Agnes de Mille, a charter choreographer in Ballet Theater with Antony Tudor, once drew up a family tree of ballet choreographers who used the classical idiom less for pure dance than to express emotion.
Keim and his colleagues determined the entire DNA sequence of the 24 isolates and compared it with 10 previously published genomes of the cholera bacterium including three from Haitian patients—and drew up a phylogenetic tree showing how the various pathogens are related.
The first is to draw up a decision tree that maps out the likely outcomes of the strategies in question [ 25].
This makes it possible to draw up a human family tree based on the series of mutations that accumulated over time as people emerged from the ancestral human cradle in Africa and spread out across the globe.
He set forth, in popular writings, his own idea that evolution provided a unified explanation for all of nature, and drew up a human ancestral tree to show man's descent from other animals.
