Sentence examples for species dates from inspiring English sources

The modern process of describing bird species dates from the work of the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.

More than 41,000 spider species are known with about 400 500 added each year, but for some well-known groups, such as the giant golden orbweavers, Nephila, the last valid described species dates from the 19th century.

The 51-kb inversion shared by most papilionoid species dates back approximately 56 mya (Lavin et al. 2005).

The adaptive radiation of some Cupressaceae species dates from the Oligocene (23 33 Ma), but the first fossil record of C. japonica dates from 55 to 65 Ma (Yang et al. 2012).

The registry recorded the name of family chief of infested houses, dates of reception of reports, village names, vector bug species, dates of response, and the name of responder for each report.

An older period of lineage diversification, corresponding to the T MRCA of recognized morphological species, dates to ~700,000-1,000,000 years B.P., well within the Middle Pleistocene epoch.

The University of Edinburgh researchers examined records of migrating bird species dating back almost 300 years.

Some paleontologists claim that Cotyledion tylodes, a species dating to the Cambrian Period (542 million to 488 million years ago), may be an early entoproct.

Fossils attributable to cheetahlike species dating from two to three million years ago have been found in North America in what is now Texas, Nevada, and Wyoming.

Modern species date chiefly from the Pleistocene Epoch (beginning about 2.6 million years ago), and many facts concerning the distribution and differentiation of northern subspecies and species are explainable in terms of isolation during the periods of Pleistocene glaciation.

The sketch appears in Darwin's first notebook on transmutation of species dating from 1837.