Sentence examples for evolutionary gap from inspiring English sources

Obviously, there is quite an evolutionary gap between vervet monkeys and the Sumerians of 5000 B.C., the first people known to have drawn dragons.

The creature the bone belonged to apparently had developed a capability important toward bridging that evolutionary gap: it could do push-ups.

You cannot mention the museum's dioramas without mentioning its dinosaurs — in this case the archaeopteryx, a bird that bridged the evolutionary gap between dinosaurs that had feathers and latter-day birds.

This has greatly expanded the record of this group in South Africa and filled in a previously perplexing evolutionary gap.

The work "is filling an evolutionary gap," says paleontologist Tom Rich from Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

The skull "fills an important evolutionary gap," says Blaire Van Valkenburgh, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

As Ellis himself recounts, scientists have found a lot of remarkable fossils in recent years, bridging evolutionary gaps that once seemed like giant chasms.

Our findings provide insights into the evolutionary gaps within Euglenozoa and the evolutionary trait of rearrangement of gene fusion in this lineage.

These large evolutionary gaps suggest that known SDIMOs are not representative of the naturally occurring diversity, what makes the group a worthy target for bioprospecting [Holmes & Coleman 2008].

Another question is the presence of evolutionary gaps due to the loss of lineages associated to eukaryotic extinctions.

In this approach, Wolf and Koonin strive to allow for the fewest number of evolutionary gaps that would require a significant leap rather than a small jump.