Sentence examples for lineages from inspiring English sources

Although the bivalve lineages Dr Jablonski studied spread out from the equator in waves, they did not become extinct in the wake of these waves.

This allowed them to follow 431 "lineages" of marine bivalve through the course of geological time.

This means, among other things, that when biologists have calculated how long ago two lineages diverged by assuming change is regular, they may have their dates wrong.Both Dr Jablonski and Dr Pagel, then, have found a degree of resolution between opposing ideas by persistently hacking away at the data.

He did it more or less single-handedly, fired by his love of the language and the culture and aided by a brain that rapidly became an encyclopedia of lineages, sutras, lives of lamas, and the history and ownership of every book he came across.

The vast majority of these lineages appear in the tropics and then spread into the extratropics.

Why does punctuation contribute more to some lineages than to others?

How do lineages spread into the colder climates of higher latitudes?Some of the old questions, though, are still rattling around like skeletons in a cupboard.

If, say, hand shape could not change independently of foot shape, selection could not make back feet suitable for walking while leaving the ape with usable hands.So for Darwin to think that natural selection explains major evolutionary innovations, he had to bet on the amount and kind of variation that typically exists in lineages.

They differentiate themselves by their distinctive cultures and by the personalities and lineages of their leaders.The Democratic Party, for example, in Mr Zulkieflimansyah's scathing but not wholly unfair analysis, is simply "an SBY fan-club".

That makes sampling them harder, even if you bother to look in the first place.The tropics do, indeed, act as cradles of biodiversityBoth of these facts mean it is likely that some lineages which seem to make their first appearance in the extratropical fossil record actually started out near the equator.

The common ancestor had a diffuse neural net, they claimed, and the central nervous system must have developed after the two lineages split.