Sentence examples for historical isolation from inspiring English sources
Like their predecessors, the Chinese are newly wealthy and helpless with foreign languages, a combination complicated by their developing country's historical isolation.
By the turn of the 21st century, Bhutan had moved to embrace democracy as well as to eliminate vestiges of its historical isolation from all angles geographic, political, economic, social, and technological.
The region's economy developed after 1919, when the railway was extended southward from the tin and rubber belt of the Malay Peninsula to Singapore, bringing to an end Johor's historical isolation (by swamps) from the rest of the peninsula.
They found a significant genetic divergence between the ants on the northern and southern mountain ranges, which reflected their historical isolation.
They range from 4532 YBP to 6353 YBP and are based on independent historical isolation and outbreak events over the past 500 years.
Therefore we searched for historical isolation and outbreak events that correlated with the phylogenetic relationships of potyvirus cCP sequences, and could provide longer time scales from which to estimate the date of the radiation.
Observed patterns of genetic variability among marine populations are shaped not only by contemporary levels of gene flow, but also by divergences during historical isolations.
That is, while phylogeographic approaches have much to offer in detecting the existence of historical population isolation, they have had less success in associating this isolation with real geographic features of present or past landscapes.
These phylogeographic studies use patterns of differentiation and similarity to infer locations and disjunctions of past populations, as well as sequences of historical biogeographic isolation events that led to current patterns [16].
The coincidence of the phylogenetic and geographic boundaries provides some confidence that the mtDNA divergence reflects historical spatial isolation.
Duminil [ 79] had proposed that the level of genetic structure in temperate trees and the potential to reflect historical population isolation are determined in part by life history.
