Sentence examples for main evolutionary line from inspiring English sources

The phylogenetic position of Microraptor, however, suggests that it diverged from the main evolutionary line leading to birds and flight, so the animal's four-winged condition is an unusual, independently evolved state.

The division Bryophyta includes three main evolutionary lines: the mosses (class Bryopsida, or Musci), the liverworts (class Hepatopsida, or Hepaticae), and the hornworts (class Anthocerotopsida, or Anthocerotae).

Well-preserved material of mosses and liverworts appears in the Paleogene and Neogene periods (65.5 million to 2.6 million years ago), and most of the main evolutionary lines are represented.

In the hornworts and mosses, the structure of the sporophyte, especially the sporangium, is important in distinguishing the main evolutionary lines, while gametophytic features provide the details for distinguishing genera and species.

b) present-day eukaryotes derive from an independent evolutionary line.

Similar dynamics were observed in all four independent evolutionary lines.

IMPORTANCE Gene duplication is one of the main evolutionary paths to new protein function.

An evolutionary line can be drawn between that aesthetic and the post-World War II antiseptic shopping mall.

Loss of the parietal foramen is a trait that we see very early in the evolutionary line leading to mammals.

There is another type of line that Mr. Beltran is unhappy to be part of -- the evolutionary line of the nation's port truckers.

Neanderthals split from our evolutionary line some 500,000 years ago.