And: I would like to be extant in another version.
If it weren't for the First Folio, there would be no extant copies of "The Tempest," "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth," "Twelfth Night" "As You Like It" or "The Winter's Tale".
Archaeobotanical studies confirm that some of those plants were available and used by humans in the past while others would have been extant at least in forest refugia, even during glacial periods.
This conclusion, dependent on the inclusion of fossil stem snakes in our analysis, would be unexpected if only extant snakes were considered, given the sister-position of highly derived scolecophidians to all other extant crown snakes.
Ancestral phenotypes would be estimated from the extant taxa and the phylogeny.
We identified three alternate conceptions during our interviews: that newly derived traits would be more widespread in extant species than would be ancestral traits, that evolution proceeds solely by anagenesis, and that lineages must become more complex over time.
We estimated phylogenies when: (1) a sister relationship of interest had not been inferred with support in a published analysis and/or additional DNA sequence data had subsequently become available; (2) phylogenies and extant diversity were deemed sufficient (we would be able to allocate all extant species diversity among terminal nodes) for ML diversification rate model fitting.
The phylogenetic affinities of the fossil shorebirds in relation to their extant relatives have not yet been fully established, hence have implicitly assumed that fossil representatives of extant groups would be resolved amongst their living relatives.
"If Neanderthals and other types of human were still extant, there would be much less of a jump between orangutans and Homo sapiens," he says.
Adorno appeals to the experience that thought which "does not decapitate itself" flows into the idea of a world where "not only extant suffering would be abolished but also suffering that is irrevocably past would be revoked" (403).
To cover all Enterobacteriaceae species with a maximum of 5% divergence, only 53 ancestral sequences are required, while it would be necessary to tile 69 extant sequences.
