Sentence examples for morphologies of organisms from inspiring English sources

Here paleontology comes into its own, as fossils capture morphologies of organisms that belonged to the common stem group of living sister taxa but which have since been lost through extinction (for terminology, see Figure 1).

For a detailed consideration of these cases and the role of natural selection in shaping morphologies of organisms over long time spans, there is no better general treatment than the classic book of Simpson (1971).

The evidence for speciation formerly was found in the fossil record by tracing successive changes in the morphology of organisms.

His Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866; "General Morphology of Organisms") presented many of his evolutionary ideas, but the scientific community was little interested.

She plans to use her extra time to write a book about the principles of structure — the rules that determine the morphology of organisms.

Note the rod morphology of organisms coating actively oxidizing pyrite grains.

In particular, if the morphology of organisms in a population is well suited to their environment, then any deviations from this could lead to lower fitness.

However, convergence does not only concern the morphology of organisms.

Predation pressure is another potentially selective force affecting the morphology of organisms.

The microscopic morphology of organisms from patients receiving antimicrobial drugs may be highly atypical, may be filamentous, or may appear similar to that of yeasts (28 ).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03398.002 It has long been proposed that the morphology of organisms could reflect both evolutionary design principles and underlying physical laws (Thompson, 1942).