Sentence examples for present-day relatives from inspiring English sources
The lampreys, present-day relatives of these early fish, have eyes that are very similar to those of other fish, leading to the conclusion that very little has happened to the aquatic form of the vertebrate eye for about 400 million years.
These proteins have persisted since at least 360 million years, assuming that the morphological concordance between a fossil lamprey from the Devonian period [ 28] and its present-day relatives is reflected on the molecular level.
The present-day relative humidity was incorporated in the models because no evidence of confounding by this variable was shown in air pollution epidemiology [ 35].
In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the present-day methane relative humidity is maintained entirely by lakes that cover a small part of the surface area of Titan.
The Neandertal genome sequences allow us to identify features unique to present-day humans relative to other, now extinct, hominins.
We used three approaches that target mtDNA, Y chromosomal DNA, and nuclear DNA, respectively, to gauge the ratio of present-day human relative to Neandertal DNA in the data produced.
The shape of these projections is very similar to those for present-day non-Africans relative to the refYRI panel (Yang et al. 2014).
Although statistical variation arising from uncertainty about the present-day heat wave relative risk was certainly a factor, most of the variability in mortality projections could be attributed to the choice of climate models and SRES scenarios.
The overall present-day heat wave relative risk of mortality was estimated from the observed data to be a 7.8%9595% CI, 6.1 9.5) increase in daily mortality during heat waves compared with otherwise similar non heat wave periods.
"Connecting those men who suffered and gave their lives there with their present day relatives is probably the most meaningful part".
Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago.
