The nearest relation of the two Phedina martins is the banded martin, Riparia cincta, which appears not to be closely related to the other members of its current genus and resembles Brazza's martin in its nesting habits and calls.
Interestingly the nearest relation to Stygiocaris in both our mitochondrial and nuclear data is the subterranean genus Typhlatya, whose centre of diversity is the Caribbean/North Atlantic/Mediterranean [40].
Our nearest relations among the primates, particularly chimps, have a "supra threshold": they love sweets and will practically die to get them — and this, the theory goes, is one of the things that make them forage over extremely large territories, outside the forest.
His first order was the execution of over 80 of his nearest relations to secure his place as emperor.
In October 1928, after the death of the Tsar's mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, the 12 nearest relations of the Tsar met at Marie's funeral and signed a declaration that denounced Anderson as an impostor.
Swaminarayan restricted widows "to live always under the control of male members of their family and prohibited them from receiving instruction in any science from any man excepting their nearest relations".
"The father of those children was a near relation of the Jeffersons," Parton wrote, "who need not be named".
But, in Lowry, one suspects, he also sensed an uncomfortably near relation, one who also struggled with an unfinishable novel, "October Ferry to Gabriola".
Only the post-breakup anthem "Best Thing I Never Had," a near relation to "Irreplaceable," finds her ceding a loss, and even then she obviously maintains the upper hand.
The occasion was one of such exceptional festivity and importance that it would be rash to judge from the first flush of success that this work will ever equal Bohème and Tosca in popularity, or compare favourably with its slightly nearer relation, Madam Butterfly.
The Cop-out, a near relation to the Letdown, is essentially a failed Closer: it involves not following through on the promise of the premise — on the most recent season of the modern-day "Sherlock," for instance, the death and resurrection of Sherlock was left teasingly unexplained, or multiply explained, in a way that delighted the makers' ingenuity more than the viewers' desire for an end.
