Sentence examples for indirect ancestors from inspiring English sources

These and related musico-dramatic forms may have become indirect ancestors of opera, but the earliest universally accepted direct ancestors of opera appeared in 16th-century Italy.

It is the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets.

For 38% (GO) and 54% (MeSH) the top 10 generated definitions contained an ancestor term, thus DOG4DAG will predict some correct, but indirect, ancestor relationship.

These scattered observations all indicate that the eumetazoan ancestor had indirect development with a planktotrophic larva.

As discussed above (Simplifying Assumptions) and below (Direct vs. Indirect Development), it is possible that the actual mandibulate ancestor had indirect development, with a biphasic (or multi-phase) extension of the germband.

Scientists use these indirect methods to understand the ancestors of groups of organisms because it is all but impossible to say with certainty whether a particular fossil is definitely an ancestor.

It is possible that the eumetazoan common ancestor showed minimally indirect development with a larval stage resembling the primary ciliary larvae of modern marine bilaterians and cnidarians.

2. Ancestor: An ancestor is a direct cause (i.e. parent) or indirect cause (e.g. grandparent) of a particular variable.

First, this would suggest that short stature was not selected for directly in the ancestors of Pygmy groups, but rather arose as an indirect consequence of selection in response to an iodine-deficient diet.

The appearance time of a fossil taxon A. rugatus Reid and Chandler (approximately 33.7 28.8 MYA) [ 82], the most recent common ancestor of Acanthus, was also considered as an indirect calibration.

He also has more indirect links to both Queen Elizabeth II and Lady Jane Grey through other ancestors in his tree," Schurer said.