Sentence examples for more derived than from inspiring English sources

Our results recover Timurlengia as more derived than Xiongguanlong and as the sister species of a new taxon from the Iren Dabasu Formation.

Trees depicting this new taxon as a position more derived than Jingshanosaurus but basal to Anchisaurus, or between Yunnanosaurus and Jingshanosaurus, both require 3 extra steps.

Placing Xingxiulong to a more basal location as a member of Massospondylidae implies 5 extra steps, placing Xingxiulong more basal to Yunnanosaurus but more derived than Massospondylidae implies 6 extra steps, and forcing it to a position more derived than Anchisaurus but basal to Aardonyx requires 8 extra steps.

I'd be willing to bet that within a year, one or two similarly thorough and well supported analyses will find Aurornis not to be a bird, or to be a bird but more derived than Archaeopteryx, rather than currently being considered basal to it.

Its jaws and teeth are generally considered to be more derived than those of A. afarensis but less so than the robust australopiths (e.g., Rak 1983; Lockwood and Tobias 2002).

The clade Neoceratopsia includes all ceratopsians more derived than psittacosaurids.

The loss of these genes from teleosts supports the idea that teleosts represent a more derived group than do other gnathostomes.

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.

Neanderthal features favour a distinction between western and eastern Neanderthals, with the western populations presenting more derived features than the eastern groups [13], [14].

This method is more rigorously derived than the original modified rate approach.

Evidence that type 2 diabetes- or obesity-associated risk alleles were more often derived than ancestral would be consistent with positive selection.