Sentence examples for more recent ancestors from inspiring English sources

True, its ancestors branched off from our own some 180 million years ago, before our more recent ancestors evolved placentas and live births.

The most remote ancestors, the founders of the chiefly lineage, are the most important gods; more recent ancestors and those of related but collateral lines have a lesser status.

Ancient human forebears such as Homo erectus which first appeared in the fossil record around 1.8m years ago and more recent ancestors, such Homo heidelbergensis, may soon come within range of the genome sequencers, offering all sorts of insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.

Some scientists go so far as to suggest that an omega-3 acid was responsible for the existence of nervous systems in the first place, and that access to large quantities of the stuff was what permitted the evolution of big brains in mankind's more recent ancestors.2.2

Humans are part of the rare exceptions, since our more recent ancestors left the trees some 60 million years after Purgatorius' lifetime".

If researchers determine that H. erectus had higher levels of sexual dimorphism than modern humans, then this will imply that they experienced higher male male competition for mates than our more recent ancestors.

Mason's version has a more recent ancestor: "Black Orpheus," the 1959 bossa nova film that set the Orpheus myth in the favelas above Rio de Janeiro.

Another more recent ancestor, Ercole, revived Venetian glassblowing in the early 20th century, using the malleability of glass to transform it into myriad new forms, from mosaic patterns to sculptures and delicate vessels as ephemeral as air.

However, choosing species A, which is a more recent ancestor and is of intermediate complexity, allows an informative assessment of the direction of changes among its descendants.

Also, like in the genealogical trees, entities (species in this evolutionary tree and people in genealogical trees) that share a more recent ancestor will have more characteristics in common between them than with other entities.

Hypothesizing that the common ancestor of mammals and Dimetrodon possessed a sail requires two evolutionary changes: one change to the sailed condition and a second change to the non-sailed condition in a more recent ancestor of mammals.