Sentence examples for more primitive or from inspiring English sources
assessing relationships between species with many intervening nodes; understanding that extant species are not more primitive or advanced than other extant species; realizing that relative branching order does not necessarily represent the chronological sequence in which clades appear; and.
Reinach observes that, while the division of numbers into two sorts, the ordinal and the cardinal, is generally accepted, it is widely debated which kind of number is more primitive or basic.
The term "basal lineage" is sometimes used to describe the branch leading to the outgroup, but this is not recommended as it is often incorrectly taken to imply that it has undergone less change and is therefore more "primitive" or "ancestral" than the other lineages (Fig. 15; see also Crisp and Cook 2005).
Nothing is more primitive or democratic than collective bargaining.
These humanlike aspects are contrasted in the postcrania with a more primitive or australopith-like trunk, shoulder, pelvis and proximal femur.
Although this process has been termed dedifferentiation, it is a misnomer and does not imply reversion to a more primitive or multipotent state.
The gauchos were housed in more primitive huts or lean-tos.
Most high performance machine tool systems still rely on the more primitive PID or PDF controllers in conjunction with complicated friction and temperature compensation algorithms.
Thus, it is necessary to check whether any feature cited as representing the transition was really present in more primitive members, or whether Eusthenopteron has developed it in parallel with tetrapods.
Some aspects of brain structure are common to almost the entire range of animal species; others distinguish "advanced" brains from more primitive ones, or distinguish vertebrates from invertebrates.
Sea snakes were at first regarded as a unified and separate family, the Hydrophiidae, that later came to comprise two subfamilies: the Hydrophiinae, or true/aquatic sea snakes (now 16 genera with 57 species), and the more primitive Laticaudinae, or sea kraits (one genus, Laticauda, with five species).
