Sentences with phrase «ancestral forms of»

It goes back 415 to 420 million years and preserves the ancestral forms of a lot of the insects that are alive today,» he said.

The fact that we find Eunotosaurus at the base of the Karoo succession strongly suggest that there are more ancestral forms of tortoises still to be discovered in the Karoo,» Rubidge added.

But the ancestral forms of this disease used different insect vectors and different malarial strains, and may literally have helped shape animal survival and evolution on Earth, according to George Poinar, Jr., a researcher in the College of Science at Oregon State University.

After extensive DNA testing, archaeozoologists and genetic specialists agreed with Louise that these animals were indeed Caspian horses, the ancestral form of the Arabian horse.

Not exact matches

In contrast, populations that have undergone dramatic size reductions or rapid expansions in the past and populations formed by the mixture of previously separate ancestral groups can have unusually high levels of linkage disequilibrium (Nordborg and Tavare 2002).

The opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey 2001 presents a vision of the Fall of Man that features an ancestral form that clearly predates modern man.

The most malignant cells represent the most ancestral forms, a sort of reversal of the evolutionary arrow of time.

It is well known that the various forms of process thought are agreed in denying the existence of an enduring self which maintains absolute identity through change.1 Process thought — regardless of whether time is taken to be Continuous or discreet, or whether one holds to an A series or B series view of time — is committed to some form of ancestral chain model of the self wherein the self is a series of interrelated actual occasions in which earlier occasions are prehended by later members of the chain to form a serial nexus.

Also, he seems to have believed in a form of ancestral memory, through which we gain some of the memories from our ancestors.

These are CT scan images of the skull roof (front bone in pink, parietal in green) and brain (in blue) of, top to bottom, a chicken, the birdlike dinosaur Zanabazar, the primitive dinosaur Herrerasaurus, and Proterosuchus, an ancestral form that diverged before the bird / crocodile split.

Other researchers may simply have dismissed mutants that revert to an ancestral form as the product of contamination, Leyser says.

How has the ancestral scaly skin given rise to the very different morphologies of scales, feathers and hairs, as well as the astonishing variety of forms that these appendages can take?

This means the weedy forms can draw on both ancestral genes and crop genes as they respond to the selection pressures of modern agriculture.

The special attributes of the ancestral versions of these enzyme superfamlies, and the self - reinforcing feedback system they would have formed with the first genes and proteins, would have kick - started early biology and driven the first life forms toward greater diversity and complexity, the researchers said.

This confirms that these two species of African apes are still highly similar to each other genetically, even though their populations split apart in Africa about 1 million years ago, perhaps after the Congo River formed and divided an ancestral population into two groups.

That study proposed that paternal care was present in these dinosaurs and this form of care was the ancestral condition for birds.

It is also possible that some functions of W01A8.1 protein forms may be related to a proposed ancestral protein acting differently than mammalian perilipins as was suggested by Beller et al. (2010).

The study reveals the evolution of bread wheat from ancestral strains through to its current domesticated form.

Studies of Chinese populations show that 97.4 % of their genetic make - up is from ancestral modern humans from Africa, with the rest coming from extinct forms such as Neanderthals and Denisovans5.

Peter Andrews discusses the Middle Pleistocene specimens from Java and China, and earlier Pleistocene forms ER 3733 and 3883 from Africa, and the later European and African forms such as Arago, Heidelberg and Broken Hill (Rhodesian Man).79 He claims the African specimens may represent different species or a separate lineage from Asian forms giving rise to separate populations of H. sapiens in the later Pleistocene - that is, Solo Man from Java may be directly ancestral to the controversial Kow Swamp and Cossack erectus / sapiens populations in Australia about 6,000 - 13,000 years ago.

Comparisons of selected and ancestral parasites have been made after three different forms of immune manipulation: (i) down - regulation of immunity by removal of the spleen prior to infection, (ii) up - regulation of immunity by transfer of immune serum at the beginning of infection, and (iii) up - regulation of immunity by infection, sometimes with subcurative drug treatment in order to establish a chronic infection.

For Richard, it was likely the Vitamin D. Both of these critical, fat soluble vitamins in their natural forms are plentifully available in traditional foods revered by healthy, ancestral cultures.

And then there's one other thing I should mention, I was talking about the best time of day to have a glass of wine or a cocktail, we shouldn't underplay the fact that from an ancestral standpoint, we see pretty significant use of a lot of these bitters and digestives often in the form of cocktails consumed prior to a meal to enhance the first phase insulin response or digestive enzyme production.

A whole food, nutrient dense diet provides the nourishment we need in order to express the strongest and healthiest version of ourselves... Food and ancestral living forms the basis of our health.

We are a company and a mission: our goal is to make clean, simple products with as much of these nutrient - dense fats as we can in a great tasting and convenient form while spreading the word that ancestral fats are a critically important part of a balanced diet.»

This line of descent may be especially accurate for collards, since the ancestral wild cabbages in Europe were loose leafed and didn't form a head, much like present - day collards and kale.

She is a big believer in ancestral nutrition and lifestyle as the first forms of defense against aging.

(3) Starches would have been readily available to ancestral human populations in the form of tubers, as well as in seeds and some fruits and nuts;

The movie also watches the Knights, primarily scientist Sophia Rikkin (Cotillard), as they watch Callum participate in a trippy form of ancestral time travel, where he plugs into a giant metal arm and experiences the memories of Aguilar.

Because of the way things have evolved in the past year or so, I've found myself gathering a lot of information, and forming a lot of opinions, in two key areas: firstly, life purpose and career design (the original subjects of my coaching practice and this blog) and latterly, real food, cooking and ancestral health (as a result of my own dietary experimentations and my work with clients — and as one of the original contributors to the Paleo Diet News website).

All the benefits of a raw ancestral diet in a highly - palatable, freeze - dried form that's fast and easy to serve.

The same ancestral autosomal recessive mutation for the progressive rod cone degeneration (prcd) form of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) is found in the American Cocker Spaniel, American Eskimo Dog, Australian Cattle Dog, Australian Shepherd, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Chinese Crested Dog, English Cocker Spaniel, Entelbucher Mountain Dog, Finnish Lapphund, Golden Retriever, Kuvasz, Labrador Retriever, Lapponian Herder, Norwegian Elkhound, Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retriever, Poodle, Portuguese Water Dog, Silky Terrier, Spanish Water Dog, Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog Swedish Lapphund, and Yorkshire Terrier.3 This list continues to grow as more breeds are discovered with the same defective gene.

This indelible record of both the ancestral native inhabitants and subsequent settlers is revisited in as much as any other form by following along the myriad trails running throughout the canyon's length, vestiges of a time when travel by foot was the safest and often most expedient way to access its remote interior and when our interaction with the world around us often came one step at a time.

Also showcased is their ancestral home, the Inhuman city of Attilan, which is one of 18 different iconic Marvel locations featured in the game, all ripped from time and space to form the expansive Open Hub World of Chronopolis.

There, the family learned to adapt a form of sacral painting that they once did on sand, rocks, and their bodies to canvas, and Tjapaltjarri became a star when his sensational canvases — abstract to Western eyes, but actually relating ancestral myths — made their way into dOCUMENTA in 2012.

Deep time, in the interpretation of Zucco, is an ancestral and enigmatic space in an unfathomable past in which forces capable of generating transitional and archetypal forms perpetually act, creating the symbols of an age that anticipates human presence.

Forming a heart of the eight - venue exhibition, the Taimiao, a historical temple located just outside Beijing's Forbidden City, and its Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum will for the first time host contemporary art by a foreign nation.

The invention of new sculptural forms to please ancestral spirits gives vitality to this spectacle - a testament to the remarkable capacity of the young people to respond to the preoccupations of the present.

The evidence does not establish that at sovereignty, WDCB laws and customs provided for an ancestral group of the Wongatha Claim group to possess group rights and interests in the Wongatha Claim area, or for individuals to be able to form themselves into a group possessing such rights and interests.

Salvage multipane window frames with old - fashioned forms to use as fab foundations for staging sentimental exhibits of ancestral portraits, family photos, botanical prints, or souvenir postcards.