Sentence examples for our ancestral selves from inspiring English sources

Like pilots training on flight simulators, or gamers evading robots on computer screens, our ancestral selves used dreams to rehearse ways of avoiding danger.

Deep as the snow lies, it is virtually a diversion to us and winter only a pale, warm shadow of its ancestral self.

For example, in Tribolium, patterning of its dorsoventral axis is controlled by homologous genes that are also used in Drosophila, but rather than relying on maternal information, Dorsal and Dpp are part of two coordinated ancestral self-organized systems in the beetle embryo [32].

Because self-crosses of [ Dp + Df], but not [ T + N], heterokaryons can undergo RIP, the extent to which a translocated segment is altered would depend on the number of adjacent 1 vs. alternate segregations in "ancestral self-crosses".

It has been proposed previously that contemporary protein-spliced nuclear tRNA introns are descended from an ancestral self-splicing group I-type intron that catalyzed the ancestral ligation [ 49] (as depicted in Figure 1, the ancestral tRNA intron may have derived from a 3′ extension of one of the precursor hairpins by a transcriptional runoff error).

As discussed above, a plausible scenario for the origin of tRNA is the duplication and subsequent ligation of an RNA hairpin approximately half the length of modern tRNA (or alternatively the ligation of two very similar hairpins) [ 41, 3], with ligation possibly catalyzed by an ancestral self-cleaving intron [ 49] (see Figure 1).

"This is our ancestral land.

We cram into our ancestral sickroom.

"We will not leave our ancestral land.

My mother died in Barbados, our ancestral home.

"They're coming to our lands and disturbing our ancestral way of life," he said.