Sentence examples for same common ancestor from inspiring English sources

In general, if carefully chosen, morphological features can indeed be an indicator of organisms having the same common ancestor.

All the species in a genus, for example, will belong to branches descending from the same common ancestor.

For he also suggested that if evolution is a fact then – whether or not natural selection is the principal mechanism – all creatures might trace their ancestry back until they find that they derived from the same common ancestor.

Modelling work by Korbonits's team, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that both Byrne and today's patients inherited their genetic variant from the same common ancestor and that this mutation is some 1,500 years old.

Oakley and Ellis zoomed in on a specific kind of fork in the tree of life: On one branch is a group that uses bioluminescence for courtship; on the other, a nonglowing "sister group" descended from the same common ancestor.

He matched with two men, same last name, who didn't know each other, but who had figured out their same common ancestor who lived in the 1600's.

A majority of the students at the Canadian Islamic schools disagreed that a significant body of data supported evolution and that all life came from the same common ancestors.

An example of the first type of explanation is: "They share the same recent common ancestor and are on the same branch of the diagram" (weaker background, Fig. 1).

All species descended from ancestor X are equally related to kangaroos, with which they all share the same last common ancestor, W. To demonstrate this, b illustrates the same tree with different patterns for each branch, which are then spliced together in c to reveal the identical total distance from the common ancestor W to all of the terminal nodes.

We speculate that the representative of Grosmannia and Ophiostoma may have diverged from the same common heterothallic ancestor as Neurospora.

Most of the clusters comprise paralogs derived from the same recent common ancestor.