Sentence examples for earliest relatives from inspiring English sources

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 reasons why the earliest relatives may have been absent from the fossil record remain unclear but may include the fact that they were small, lacked a hard shell, or they were very rare and restricted to environments where they were unlikely to fossilize.

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.

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.

Stegosaurs lost the armour from the flanks of the body that these early relatives had.

Tyrannosaurs are thought to have migrated to North America from Asia, because early relatives first appear on the latter continent.

The story said that certain changes to human anatomy "enabled our early relatives to throw missiles at incredible speeds".

Earlier, relatives of those who are thought to have perished in the disaster gathered for a service in the parish church.

These included both straight and coiled nautiloids (early relatives of the chambered Nautilus), the ammonoids (extinct members of the same class), and the first squids.