Sentence examples for earlier populations from inspiring English sources

Groups at the ends of short twigs, the ones that split only recently from earlier populations, are younger, in a genealogical sense, than those at the ends of long branches.

In their penetration into Greece toward the beginning of the 2nd millennium bce, the Proto-Greeks found earlier populations established there, about whom Greek tradition gives only vague hints and whose language or languages are unknown.

Turkish schoolchildren are taught that their ancestors were Mongol horsemen, but in fact most Turks you meet boast a Georgian, Macedonian or Kurdish grandparent, and genetic anthropologists are discovering that the contemporary Anatolian gene pool owes less to Turkic invaders than to the earlier populations they conquered.

On the contrary, they remained scattered groups, sometimes coexisting with descendants of earlier populations of the Pleistocene Epoch (roughly 1,800,000 to 10,000 years ago), who in their turn had also learned to make economic use of their environment over an immense span of cultural time.

So in our (story) scenario, selection on individuals' DNA of earlier populations in response to slow environmental change had led to a current population of genes that would not be reproductively compatible with the earlier gene population.

These include tali that approach closely the size of the talus of the small bodied australopithecine "Little Foot" from South Africa (Figure 6), supporting the hypothesis that small body size was the norm in the earlier populations preserved in the cave.

The Dogon attribute them to an earlier population, the Tellem.

An earlier population of hunter gatherers was successively overwhelmed by new arrivals.

Such reductions could be the outcomes from earlier population-level investments such as improved education and living conditions, and better prevention and treatment of vascular and chronic conditions.

It confirms smaller studies showing that overfishing has decimated certain fish species and gives a baseline estimate of earlier population numbers that should aid in conservation.

This result was replicated in a large population-based twin study [7], while earlier population-based studies based on the 1st edition of the ICHD showed a similar tendency [18, 19].