Sentences with phrase «early ancestors of»

There are no written records to support this theory prior to the 9th century but ancient artifacts such as handmade pottery dating back to 300BC have been seen to feature the image of dogs that could be early ancestors of the Chihuahua breed.

Other early ancestors of the Boykin are reported to be the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, English Springer Spaniel, Cocker Spaniel and the American Water Spaniel.

The early ancestors of modern birds had scales.

New evidence has just turned up early ancestors of humans in Africa mated with Neandertals about 110,000 years ago.

The findings have suggested that the early ancestors of humans came from Asia.

Across the Mediterranean Sea (upper left and center) is Europe; far below Egypt is East Africa and sites where remains of early ancestors of humans have been unearthed.

The results, published today (7 May) in the journal Current Biology, identify a key point in the evolutionary transition from soft to hard bodies in early ancestors of arthropods, the group that contains modern insects, crustaceans and spiders.

C. kunmingensis belongs to a group of animals called fuxianhuiids, and was an early ancestor of modern arthropods — the diverse group that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans.

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

Piecing together the planetesimals, the earliest ancestors of the asteroids, hasn't been easy because eons of collisions have broken them apart.

It also suggests that the earliest ancestor of butterflies and moths flew during the day, not at night, as previously thought.

Did the earliest ancestors of swimming mammals fumble as they took to the water?

The earliest ancestors of golden retrievers were chosen for their yellow coat and patient personality, but these desired traits came with an unfortunate side effect: a genetic predisposition to cancer, which ends up claiming the life of up to 63 percent of these dogs, according to one study.

In a new report in Nature Communications, researchers conclude that this Neandertal, as well as others whose mtDNA was previously sequenced, inherited their mitochondrial genomes from mating with an early ancestor of Homo sapiens.

ONE of the first mammals to use echolocation may not have been a bat or a whale, but an early ancestor of horses.

Sixty million years ago, a lemurlike animal — an early ancestor of humans and monkeys — contracted an infection.

These Ardipithecus fossils were the earliest ancestor of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage of the primate family tree, neither ape - like nor chimp - like, yet not human either.

This points out that the earlier ancestors of Europeans may have possessed more of this Neanderthal DNA and that the substantial disappearance may be attributed to the the Neanderthal DNA's harmful effects to present - day Europeans.

The Dromornis murrayi, a 551 - pound flightless bird, now emerges as the earliest ancestor of the Dromornis giant birds.

The dinosaur Archaeopteryx is widely regarded as one of the earliest ancestors of modern birds, but the question of whether or not it could actively fly has been debated for decades.

You may recognize some of these computer - generated critters from the margins of Rowling's earlier novels, such as the niffler, a duck - billed rodent with a mischievous taste for anything shiny, or the bowtruckle, a shy, twig - like tree dweller that might be an early ancestor of Groot's.

Odd, as the long coat was the early ancestor of the short coat.

This early ancestor of the Labrador Retriever breed was admired for its hunting and retrieving ability as well as its excellent swimming skills.

Although the specific herding breeds used are unknown, some breed experts believe that at least one of the breeds had upright, pricked ears and may have been an early ancestor of the Belgian sheepdog breeds.

Here, the earliest ancestors of the Labrador Retrievers started out.

During this period, a higher than normal levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to hotter planet, and in response fossil evidence of shows that an early ancestor of the horse, Sifrhippus, shrunk to the size of a house cat.

Not exact matches

With the recent discovery of anatomically modern humans evolving 100,000 years earlier than previously estimated, it's not out of the question that our ancestors did a lot of moving about.

It was a way to explain incomprehensible forces of nature to our early ancestors, which evolution had given a surplus of imagination from oversized brains, without the discipline to use that brain power wisely.

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

Trav, all the dna within your own body proves that all of your earliest ancestors came from South East Africa... I'm so sorry.

No one has power to alter these heavenly lights, for they serve to display the greatness of their Creator, and as our eyes see them now, so saw them our earliest ancestors, and so shall see them our latest posterity.26

If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call human did in fact embody this structure of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly high levels of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds of thousands of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence than does any now existing nonhuman member of the simian family.

Theoretically a Purana is supposed to deal with five subjects: (1) the creation; (2) re-creation, the periodical destruction and renewal of the worlds; (3) the genealogy of the gods and the ancient Rishis; (4) the great time periods, each of which has a primal ancestor or Manu; and (5) the history of the early dynasties which trace their origin to the sun or the moon.

Of her earliest faith we can not safely say more than that it was inherited and uncritically accepted from ancestors who had come, by the ways that have shaped the mind of primitive man, to a relatively high polytheisOf her earliest faith we can not safely say more than that it was inherited and uncritically accepted from ancestors who had come, by the ways that have shaped the mind of primitive man, to a relatively high polytheisof primitive man, to a relatively high polytheism.

Indeed, a very early remnant of the witnessing tradition posited a striking contrast, as we have had occasion to notice before in Chapter Two: «The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree» (Acts 5:30, emphasis mine).

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.

Science can not deal effectively with the appreciation of beauty, the enjoyment of personal relationships, judgments of value as to good and bad; its leaders nowadays are modest in their claims, unlike their ancestors in the last century and the early days of this one.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

Probably kept our early ancestors alive to be jumpy and always on guard for some cave bear suddenly springing from out of nowhere, but times have changed somewhat.

I began to feel that the Mass gave me a living connection with my ancestors in England and Scotland before the Reformation and with other ancestors thousands of years earlier than that, in the woods and in the caves on the mudflats of Europe.

Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now - rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests

Paleo experts took note of our modern - day behavior and thought, if obesity and disease rates are rising as quickly as processed foods are flying off shelves, maybe we should go back to our roots and eat like our early ancestors did?

Some sources even claim this is one of the early ancestors for Naga - series chile peppers.

The so - called Paleo Diet has been around for some years, but has grown to achieve almost cult status, particularly in the United States, since its revival in the early 2000s, exploiting rising interest in returning to the eating habits of our ancestors, perceived to be simpler and more natural.

Narvaez refers to the Evolved Developmental Niche (EDN) as the early «nest» that humans inherit from their ancestors, which matches up with the maturation schedule of the child, emphasizing 6 components:

Unresolved traumatic history in parents or ancestors, such as early abuse, loss of a parent, traumatic birth, or being given up for adoption

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

The man from Kostenki shared close ancestry with hunter - gatherers in Europe — as well as with the early farmers, suggesting that his ancestors interbred with members of the same Middle Eastern population who later turned into farmers and came to Europe themselves.

He has discovered the world's oldest - known bee and mushroom, the earliest evidence of flowering plant sex and, most recently, a fossilized ancestor of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.