Sentence examples for split into three species from inspiring English sources
Marine biologists at the University of Utah examined these louse genes and determined their hosts split into three species 5 6 million years ago, and these species were all equally abundant before whaling began in the 11th century.
Specifically, the geographical distribution of mtDNA clades in Bolitoglossa is approximately coincident with those identified for the terrestrial leaf litter frog Pristimantis " ockendeni" [ 5] (now split into three species [ 37]) and Engystomops frogs [ 38].
Accordingly, the langurs of the Indian subcontinent should be split into three species groups, with one occurring solely on Sri Lanka, one in Southern India and a third one in Northern India, whereas the Gondavari river seems to be barrier between the latter two.
Perhaps eventually we'll split into two species.
In the past, physically distinct but closely related forms have either been "lumped" into one species, with each form classified as a subspecies, or "split" into two species.
Man and mouse are cousins, each descended from a small mammal that split into two species toward the end of the dinosaur era.
They concluded that humans and Neanderthals, our closest relatives, split into two species around the time fire was harnessed - between 465,000 and 569,000 years ago, with the most likely estimate being 516,000 years ago.
They are so diverse, they have almost split into two species.
Recently, strains belonging to Bradyrhizobium japonicum have been split into two species, B. japonicum and B. diazoefficiens.
But about 5 million years ago, in one species of cicada (pictured), one bacterial partner split into two species, researchers report in the current issue of Cell.
If the report's conclusions are accepted by the African Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN), the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) may be split into two species: L. africana, for those living on the savanna, and L. cyclotis, for those in the forest.
