Where it is more familiar, a comparison with present-day conditions, especially, for example, in Asiatic Turkey, is highly instructive.
Go back only 10 million years, still a tiny fraction of the history of life on Earth, and any comparison with present-day distributions becomes impossible, since most of the species themselves would no longer be the same". So under what pretense does an arbitrarily picked "single frame from a very long movie" chosen for the East Bay hills trump the others?
Many of the committee staff members said regardless of any comparisons to present-day politics, the reunion was still significant to them.
To make comparisons of present-day extinction rates conservative, assume that the normal rate is just one extinction per million species per year.
Instead, it's a much more subtle and psychologically focused read that prefers to look askance at 20th-century Chinese history, and offers wry comparisons with present-day China.
Since this inferred practice occurred in the realm of agrarian cultures, it is more feasible to make comparisons with present-day cannibalism, where the meaning is generally the acquisition of the powers and other qualities of the victim.
Even when morphological evidences of cells or colonies of microorganisms are absent, the biogenicity of these structures is based on a variety of evidences including morphologic comparisons with present-day analogues, type of mineral replacement, and geological context.
Our quantitative comparisons of present-day applications of glyphosate-based herbicides and current amphibian responses to climate change illustrate that preterm reproductive behaviour is advantageous both in early and late breeding amphibians.
The mid-Holocene stream channel was less sinuous and had a higher width depth ratio and a higher meander amplitude in comparison with the present-day channel.
Comparison of the present-day bathymetric setting of both former and contemporary glaciated margins reveals no clear link to the effect of neither ice sheet or sediment load.
There is a popular tendency to think of primitive animals (in a phylogenetic or descent sense) as lacking "elaboration"; i.e., that the animals of earlier geological periods had simpler displays or perhaps lacked crests or pheromones or elaborate communal displays in comparison with their present-day counterparts.
