Sentence examples for modern member from inspiring English sources

For example, it is something of an article of faith for molecular evolution studies to consider a modern member of an ancient phylum (the lycopod Selaginella, for example) as representative of the genomic status of its newly-evolved ancestral form.

Authors' response: The idea of a deep ancestor that was more complex than an average modern member of the descendant clade probably is "a bit odd " (or even more than a bit) to many biologists.

Modern members of the euro cannot easily quit it.What would Keynes (and Oprah) do?There are similarities, too.

Libypithecus and Dolichopithecus, both monkeys, were probably ancestral colobines, but neither genus can be placed in a precise ancestral relationship with modern members of this subfamily.

Labour, they think, should instead rely on the support of the new, thoroughly modern members who have flocked to the party since he took over.Yet others, including many modernisers, are not so sure.

Thus, Darwin saw that modern members of a group (the armadillos and sloths belong to what was then called the Edentata) of allied forms can replace extinct species.

That's one theory biologists are putting forward to explain a striking number of genetic differences between modern members of this group and their 6000-year-old 6000-year-old 6000-year-olden recovered from ancestorst Antarctic nesting site.

Salamanders split off from the other amphibians during the mid- to late Permian, and initially were similar to modern members of the Cryptobranchoidea.

Some Triassic mygalomorphs appear to be members of the family Hexathelidae, whose modern members include the notorious Sydney funnel-web spider, and their spinnerets appear adapted for building funnel-shaped webs to catch jumping insects.

Stephanocoenia may represent another distinctive Atlantic clade, whose modern members consist of only one genus, but the Pacific astrocoeniid genus Palauastrea must be analyzed to confirm this.

Second, two types of PARP-like proteins were present in the LCEA; one likely functioned in DNA repair and genomic maintenance and resembled modern members of Clade 1.