Sentence examples for massive primate from inspiring English sources

Equally obviously, we have an unbalanced economy with a massive primate city.

Stedman proposes that because of this genetic change, the primates' massive jaw muscles shrank, making possible a threefold expansion of the brain.

We found that the massive structural rearrangements of primate-specific PRDM7 gene greatly contributed to modify gene function.

Most of the enlargement of the primate brain comes from a massive expansion of the cerebral cortex, especially the prefrontal cortex and the parts of the cortex involved in vision.

Massive in humans and very large in primates, their functions remain in dispute.

The massive expansion of the Alu repeats in the primate genome has increased by order of magnitudes the amount of A-to-I editing in their transcriptome.

Although outbreaks are rare, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, and other so-called filoviruses periodically cause massive hemorrhaging in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and other primates.

In primates, the intensity of social life imposes massive cognitive requirements in a way that is probably unique to this order.

Herculano-Houzel says our brains are rather standard primate models, except for the fact that we have a massive number of brain cells compared to other species.

This result actually fits well with the previously described massive duplication and fast evolution of proteins involved in recently evolved BPs in primates and hominidae such as olfactory sensing (Niimura 2009) or immune and inflammatory responses (Eichler 2001; Rodriguez et al. 2012).

It is seductive to interpret age distributional bulges as outcomes of prior episodes of elevated birth rates rather than as simple consequences of recent reductions in element activity, and indeed most studies on primate and rodent LINEs and SINEs both (non-LTR elements), have invoked periods of massive increases in insertion rates to explain the past history of these retrotransposons.