Sentence examples for shared common ancestors from inspiring English sources

So what does this pick'n'mix of reptile, bird and mammal characteristics tell us about the very first mammals, our shared common ancestors?

In the 1990s, however, several studies have suggested that prosauropods may be a distinct group that shared common ancestors with sauropods earlier in the Triassic.

Still, if we shared common ancestors, we would likely share some genetic material — depending on which segments were randomly passed down to us by parents and foreparents.

In spite of this, most subjects did not think that all groups shared common ancestors.

Our results show that, although many students in our sample could give a satisfactory definition of common ancestry, the overwhelming majority failed to apply their definitions correctly when assessing the likelihood that the pairs of organisms shared common ancestors.

More recently, phylogenetic taxonomy has become a common system of classification in vertebrate paleontology whereby groups are defined by shared common ancestors.

Taxa categorized together, for instance, species in the same phylum, have diverged less from a shared common ancestor than taxa categorized in different higher-level groups.

Therefore it is not surprising to find a shared common ancestor of the Guinea-Bissau CRF02_AG epidemic in Cameroon.

Results indicate that the assumption of a last shared common ancestor outside the continent better explains the observed morphological differences between early and late American groups.

This length constraint implies that for detected IBD segments, the shared common ancestor will be a recent ancestor.

The dating of the last shared common ancestor of the j and t haplotypes was calculated as described previously (53).