Sentence examples for earliest relative from inspiring English sources

The genetic makeup of this plant is important because it is understood to be the earliest relative, in evolutionary terms, of all the flowering plants.

Phylogenetically, trypanosomatids branch out relatively early relative to the higher eukaryotes.

Except for corals, jellyfish, bryozoans and other major groups of animals whose earliest relatives appear in the fossil record before or after the Cambrian Explosion.

In addition, the earliest relatives of the brontotheres look much like early horses and tapiroids.

Yeast cells probably don't resemble their earliest relatives much (the briny oceans hardly crawled with Belgian microbrews).

The earliest relatives of the human ZCWPW1/ ZCWPW2 and ZMYND8/11 PWWP domain proteins are shared with the cnidarians and, thus, might reflect specific combinations related to multicellular development.

Why the earlier relative dawdle?

Oddly, only when Australopithecus, an early relative of humans, turns up do the figures display a bit of the awkwardness of old sci-fi films.

One theory is that going through puberty early, relative to other kinds of cognitive development, causes changes in the brain that make it more susceptible to depression.

In fact, some argue the very first computer programmer was a woman: Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage to write code for his analytical engine, an early relative of the computer.

Dr. Gaffney, who had gone to Peking to help select the dinosaurs said that one major find was a lufengosaurus, a twenty-foot-long early relative of the brontosaurus.