Sentence examples for than extant from inspiring English sources

By looking for extinct rather than extant life, it could sample all of Martian geologic history.

CTL is more expensive than extant technologies when producing the same bundle of output.

Interestingly, ANC sequences diverged and were not significantly better than extant sequences in minimizing genetic distances at later stages of infection and disease, likely due to the development of a substantially asymmetric phylogeny.

Acquisition of local knowledge and participation of farmers in participatory varietal selection (PVS) and participatory plant breeding (PPB) enabled rapid identification and development of germplasm adapted to the farming system with significantly higher yield than extant varieties.

The latter result (crustacean paraphyly) arises from the use of methodologies that are more philosophically sound, that is, implied character weights rather than equal weights (see Methods for justification of implied weights), and more comprehensive taxon sampling, that is, including extinct and extant taxa rather than extant alone.

The authors conducted a pilot trial of a new dissonance-based group eating disorder treatment designed to be a cost-effective front-line transdiagnostic treatment that could be more widely disseminated than extant individual or family treatments that are more expensive and difficult to deliver.

The teleosts, or the ray-finned fish, are a diverse group that comprises most living species of fish, including more than 20,000 extant species covering more than 40 orders [ 14].

There are more than 30 extant Greek manuscripts and others in Coptic, Syriac, and Armenian.

The results showed that the newly-designed set was judged to be more internally dissimilar, and easier to learn, than the extant set.

The popularity of Rudolf's writings can be gauged by the fact that there are more than 80 extant manuscripts and manuscript fragments of the Weltchronik alone.

The Architectural Record observed that the building "had as its prototype rather a log-house than any extant construction of masonry".