Sentence examples for earlier specimens from inspiring English sources

Written wooden tablets covered with incised signs (called rongo-rongo) placed in boustrophedon (a method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right) were copied from earlier specimens merely for ritual purposes; their proper reading was forgotten, and despite many claims modern attempts at deciphering them have failed.

Of course none of this evidence definitely attributes Oldowan stone tool production to australopiths, but it does put the onus on paleontologists to find earlier specimens of H. habilis, if the species can continue to claim the distinction of first stone tool maker.

Her leopard-skin bikini remains one of the earlier specimens of the fashion.

Of the five earlier specimens, four came from Borneo and one from Zhoushan Island in China, hinting at a wider historical distribution.

Both specimens appear to be from more vigorous plants and to have longer spikelets than the contemporaneous or earlier specimens of O. latifolia collected in the Caribbean area.

Average hybrid indices at re-sampled hybrid zone sites have become significantly more Townsend's-like since the earlier specimens were collected (Figure 2; P = 0.046).

Carmine dye was the same thing that had been found in an earlier specimen: the Santa Claus culture that had been made up as a yearly joke in the hospital, & had been found to contain group-G Salmonella.

An earlier specimen, also recovered from the Lance Formation, was named Agathaumas sylvestris by Edward Drinker Cope in 1872.

Anne D. Williams, the curator of the jigsaw puzzle portion, stressed how much educational lore the early specimens contained.

(The glaze on early specimens is less transparent and is denser).

The find includes several early specimens that may be useful in trying to prove his theory that the dinosaur was more scavenger than hunter.