Sentence examples for evolved from a single ancestor from inspiring English sources

As noted by Rogers (2011), such "[p]hylogenetic pattern is everywhere in nature", and "makes sense only if all living things evolved from a single ancestor" (p. 31).

It also revealed surprises--for instance, that flying squirrels all evolved from a single ancestor and not several, as some had thought.

According to a study published today in Nature Communications, they then tested the evolutionary relationship between the ape and human parasite, discovering that P. vivax originated in Africa and evolved from a single ancestor.

For example, W.F. Bynum's extensive assessment in the journal Nature, February 12 , 2009(www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7231/full/4579921.html), describes this controversial new reconstruction of Charles Darwin's life, namely, that his family's campaign against slavery influenced his belief that all humans evolved from a single ancestor.

The extant East Asian cyprinids evolved from a single ancestor into an array of species [63] from late Miocene to the Pliocene (Figure 4).

This was confirmed by detailed analysis of sequence alignments: in highly conserved regions (e.g. helix B shown in Fig. S6), the small differences identified are consistently maintained among proteins of the same species, suggesting that all copies evolved from a single ancestor polypeptide after species divergence.

But these structures appear to have evolved from a single ancestor a reptile that lived 300 million years ago according to new research.

Although he did not come up with natural selection, he did discuss ideas that his grandson elaborated on sixty years later, such as how life evolved from a single common ancestor, forming "one living filament".

In short, investigations by Baldwin (1999) indicate that not all species included in Eriophyllum in The Jepson Manual evolved from a single, common ancestor (i.e., that Eriophyllum as circumscribed in The Jepson Manual is polyphyletic).

Opinions do and probably always will vary on this subject, but an attempt is being made within the Jepson Flora Project to recognized only groups in which all members have evolved from a single, common ancestor (i.e., to recognize only monophyletic groups), insofar as is practical and to the extent that data bearing on this matter are available.

In parallel, the classical cadherins evolved from a single vertebrate ancestor by gene duplications that led to the evolution of at least four classical cadherins, most likely the ancestors of present day N-, R-, E- and P-cadherins [4], [5].