Sentence examples for more derived from inspiring English sources

The abdominal muscles show increasing degrees of differentiation in the fully metamorphosed, more derived taxa.

In other words, we now have something that is much more like a more derived feather than ever seen before and in a lineage very well separated from the theropods.

Each group, or clade, must include an ancestor and all of its descendents, each of which shares one or more derived (new) traits.

More time in orbit can mean more derived revenue from each satellite.

Some isolated teeth and jaws look more primitive while others look more derived.

Lucy had an "incredible amalgam of more primitive and more derived features that had not been seen before," says Johanson.

Several experiments were conducted to characterize the nature of thyroidal rhythmicity in a more derived perciform teleost, the red drum.

Direct sperm transfer in the form of copulation bypasses the risk of environmental damage in many more derived forms (Selden and Edwards 1990).

The clade Neoceratopsia includes all ceratopsians more derived than psittacosaurids.

The teeth of Patagosaurus are reminiscent of more derived sauropods.

It is a fossil that shows the development of character states from the basal to the more derived.