Sentence examples for more distant common from inspiring English sources

All of these species share a more distant common ancestor, G.

Likewise, the reader is not descended from a cousin, but they share a more distant common ancestor, namely their grandparent.

Also depicted are two of your cousins, each of whom is equally related to you and to your sibling and with whom you share a more distant common ancestor (your grandparent).

It is also possible that vertebrates and jellyfishes inherited their similar opsins and photoreceptors from an even more distant common ancestor, though it has been argued that the intriguing similarities between them reflect independent recruitment of the same genes (i.e., parallel evolution) rather than homology (Kozmik et al. 2008a).

They conclude that the world's only two snap-trapping plants really are sibling species, whereas the sundew is no closer than a cousin, sharing a more distant common ancestor, the group reports in the September issue of the American Journal of Botany.

It is very likely that the highly derived occlusal pattern of G. aegyptius, G. hylaeus, and G. lavocati is derived from a more distant common ancestor that resembled Gaudeamus aslius.

Marriages between third-degree and more distant relatives are common in many parts of the world.

The most common sites of tumor involvement were thus adjacent to the nasopharynx and the least common were more distant to the nasopharynx.

As currently designed, at least, BEAGLE appears optimized to detect rather long autozygous segments arising from a recent common ancestor, but has not been designed to detect the more ambiguous autozygous signals from distant common ancestors.

An improved model has applications beyond the sun, Thomas adds: "Sunspots are proving grounds to test our theories of interactions between gas flows and magnetic fields, which are common in more distant astrophysical objects that we can't resolve".

It is likely that null alleles will be more common in more distant species, especially when using primer sets that are less conserved (between chicken and zebra finch).