Sentence examples for than ancestors from inspiring English sources

For the first time in the history of Chinese family life, the child rather than ancestors or parents is regarded as the centre of the family, says Yan Yunxiang of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The term was invariably used to describe living species that: persist over a long geologic time interval; were thought to be extinct and rediscovered; are morphologically or physiologically similar across living and fossil species; have "primitive" traits; have a smaller geographic range than ancestors or have a lower diversity today than relatives in the past (Schopf 1984).

Reminding students that living species are cousins rather than ancestors will help counter the misconception of evolution as linear rather than branching.

Some researchers have long argued that Adapiformes might be primitive relatives of anthropoids--the higher primates including monkeys, apes, and humans--rather than ancestors of lorises and lemurs.

All the trees in this article have one or more vertices, they are rooted and have maximum degree 3. A tree T induces a partial order on its nodes, where descendants are lower than ancestors.

Although it cannot be excluded that such viruses are derivative rather than ancestors of geminiviruses, our analysis show that geminivirus ancestors could have evolved their CP in marine environments before their adaptation as pathogens of land plants, and therefore their origin could be explained without having recourse to unlikely and poorly parsimonious scenarios.

HAWKING: It's clearly possible for something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Are we really any better than our ancestors?

The defective offspring reproduce slower than their ancestors.

Much more than our ancestors could ever have imagined, and much, much less.

We can do more damage in a decade than our ancestors could inflict in centuries.