Sentence examples for morphological disparity from inspiring English sources
The first is that morphological disparity should scale positively with functional complexity among different radiations.
Basically, the researchers looked at dinosaur extinction based on "morphological disparity," the variability of body structure.
Variation exists in multiple directions to allow for such morphological disparity, but it does not exist in every direction.
Axial diameter, leaf size, and multiple-character-based morphological disparity (mean pairwise dissimilarity) show stepwise evolutionary increase through the Devonian in parallel with the rise of taxonomic diversity.
The distinctive body configuration reinforces the remarkable appendage specialization associated with feeding and locomotion and overall morphological disparity in lobopodians during the Cambrian explosion.
The discovery of D. acrovatum further enriches the composition of the Posongchong flora and demonstrates great morphological disparity of the Early Devonian vascular plants.
The researchers calculated morphological disparity for seven major dinosaur groups using wide-ranging characteristics of the intricate skeletal structure of nearly 150 different species.
Therefore, reconciling the extreme morphological disparity but close genetic similarity between maize and teosinte became an important objective for understanding maize evolution.
This activity forces the students to think about the longevity of species (length of branches), number of branches, and the relationship between diversity and morphological disparity (width of tree) as they relate to the formation of their hypothetical high and low volatility clades.
A study in 2012 found that changes in "morphological disparity"—the amount of physical difference between dinosaurs may have indicated a pre-meteor decline.
Gould's interpretation of the Cambrian Burgess Shale fossils in his book Wonderful Life emphasized the striking morphological disparity (or "weirdness") of the Burgess Shale fauna, and the role of chance in determining which members of this fauna survived and flourished.
