Sentences with phrase «ancestral group»

The disease is highly variable in the way it may present, and also in its outcome among individuals and across different ancestral groups.
«There was a single ancestral group of organisms, and some split off to become fungi and some split off to become animals.»
«It doesn't mean that most Native American languages are related to each other, it just means that the populations that speak those languages descend from a single ancestral group,» says Reich.
Studies of genetic markers that are distinctive to ancestral groups show that typical African Americans have 20 percent European blood, although that figure can go as high as 80 percent in some people who call themselves black.
This «Jesus» couldn't even be bothered to convince his own ethnic / religious / ancestral group of his godhood, which should have been easy - peasy at the time.
Did they all descend from the same founding population, or could he tease apart DNA passed down from different ancestral groups?
Forty - one per cent of Canadians, meanwhile, lay claim to more than a single ancestral group, the most frequent being English, Scottish, French or Irish.
A zoologist can, to be sure, identify the body parts in the ancestral groups that gave rise to new organs and functions in the derived classes.
The study also suggests butterflies are the ancestral group to the tens of thousands of moth species on the planet, and the Hedylidae family, commonly known as American butterfly - moths, were dismissed as moths and found to be true butterflies.
Their surprising finding was that present - day Europeans trace their ancestry back to three and not just two ancestral groups: The first is indigenous hunter - gatherers; the second is Near Eastern farmers that migrated to Europe around 7,500 years ago; and a novel third is a more mysterious population that spanned North Eurasia and genetically connects Europeans and Native Americans.
«Nearly all Europeans have ancestry from all three ancestral groups,» says Iosif Lazaridis from Harvard Medical School.
The groups that evolved into bonobos, chimps, and humans all retained slightly different subsets of this ancestral population's diverse gene pool — and those differences now offer clues today to the size and range of diversity in that ancestral group.
Humans vary genetically to in how much they and their ancestral group are adapted to digest starch.
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.
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