Sentence examples for our close ancestors from inspiring English sources

By studying our close ancestors -- the primates -- a pair of Scottish researchers found that frequency of deception is directly proportional to the size of the neocortex -- in other words, the bigger the brain, the more frequent the use of deception.

-Norman Doidge, 2007 [ 47] It has been concluded that millions of years of drastic fluctuations in food availability would have exposed our close ancestors to periods of unavoidable hunger and starvation [ 64, 112].

After a nice review of the evolution of life up to our closest ancestors, the great apes, DeSalle and Tattersall are ready to tell us the human evolution story (Chapter 6).

Then, a million years later, our ability to cook food gave rise to Homo erectus, our closest ancestor, who developed a digestive system 20percentt smaller and a brain 20percentt larger than his predecessors.

Then, a million years later, our ability to cook food gave rise to Homo Erectus, our closest ancestor, who developed a digestive system 20percentt smaller and a brain 20percentt larger than their predecessors.

The design as a whole incorporates elements of both refracting and reflecting superposition optics (as well as some of the features of apposition eyes) and seems to have been an intermediate in the evolution of eyes in some animals whose close ancestors use other optical principles.

Close ancestors of the Chrysogenum complex were excluded from the four species groups as expected.

Problems tended to arise for animals with no close ancestors genotyped (i.e. "Other"), especially for Pig99.

The DOF (DNA binding with One Finger) TF family has been associated with vital processes exclusive to higher plants and to their close ancestors (algae, mosses and ferns).

Rigorous phylogenomic analyses identified 84 genes – mostly encoding metabolic proteins – that have been acquired by diplomonads or their relatively close ancestors via lateral gene transfer (LGT).

(0.8 MYA) using a different data set including close ancestors of the Chrysogenum complex and additional type isolates, such as P. rubens (NRRL-792).