Sentence examples for more recent common from inspiring English sources

This is consistent with a more recent common ancestor between these lineages and could indicate that selfing evolved more recently in this lineage.

He posits that populations that are genetically more similar probably share a more recent common ancestor than those that are genetically more distant.

"In fact, golden jackals from different localities in Africa share a more recent common ancestry with gray wolves", said Dr Koepfli.

The distribution of bone among the ingroup and outgroup taxa indicates that the five ingroup taxa share more recent common ancestry with the tuna than with the shark.

relatedness -- Two clades are more closely related when they share a more recent common ancestor between them than they do with any other clade.

This can be explained by the fact that whales share a more recent common ancestry with humans (Figure 4) than they do with sharks.

It means that these groups share a more recent common ancestor with each other than with any other group in the tree and therefore are more closely related.

The Californian study yielded some surprising conclusions, including that Britons share more recent common ancestors with people in Ireland than with others in Britain.

Molecular genetic studies suggest that hagfish and lampreys share a more recent common ancestor with each other than either group do with the rest of the vertebrates: the cyclostomes are a monophyletic group.

It is not clear whether "protosuchians" form a natural group or not — that is, whether they share a more recent common ancestor with each other than with living crocs — but the various protosuchians are the most primitive crocodyliforms.

The fact that all the ingroup and outgroup taxa share a vertebral column indicates that they share more recent common ancestry with each other than any one taxon does with a non-vertebrate animal.