Sentence examples for most recent ancestors from inspiring English sources

Alan Garner's most recent ancestors were metalworkers.

Squeeze a baseball or pen between your thumb and the tips of your fingers: You are using what researchers call a precision grip, a highly evolved adaptation thought to be unique to modern humans and our most recent ancestors.

Thus, studies of avian cones may provide clues to the organization of the cone system of ancestral species including the most recent ancestors of birds, the theropod dinosaurs.

Tracing the evolution of DNA uptake on each of the four trees showed that 28 of 35 strains took up different amounts of DNA than were predicted for their most recent ancestors.

Due to the likely scenario of multiple independent entries (from neighbouring countries) caution should be taken in the interpretation, as these most recent ancestors is not necessarily the ancestor of Nigerian isolates alone nor a reflection of how early the subtypes has been in the country.

Given the average substitution rate for grasses (5.9×10−9 substitutions per synonymous site per year) [26] [28] under the assumption of the neutral constant substitution process, the divergence at synonymous sites in the evolutionary time of 2×14 million years would be 16.5% between the rice genes and the hypothetical homologs in the grass branches from the most recent ancestors of the rice genus.

A comparison of the mt genome architecture in plant-parasitic nematodes and phylogenetic analyses support that Pratylenchus is the most recent ancestor of root-knot nematodes.

However, the most recent ancestor common to both birds and mammals was not endothermic, which means that endothermy is homoplasious when these groups are compared with each other.

Under its current definition Crocodylia is restricted to only the most recent ancestor of today's modern-day crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, and gharials).

Its most recent ancestor was likely Procyon rexroadensis, a large Blancan raccoon from the Rexroad Formation characterized by its narrow back teeth and large lower jaw.

The putative phylogenetic distribution of this character suggests that the most recent ancestor of Oxyrrhis and dinokaryotes also possessed body scales.