Sentences with phrase «ancient ancestor»

The English Bulldog that we know today shares very little in common with its ancient ancestor, the Bulldog, which was a taller dog that looked more like a Mastiff.

The Urus, also called the Aurochs, is an ancient ancestor of the modern day cow, which went extinct in 1627.

In that sense, Craigslist is the ancient ancestor of every dating service we have today.

Its ancient ancestor, Avena sterilis, was native to the Fertile Crescent in the Near East, but domesticated oats do best in cool, moist climates like regions of Europe and the United States.

One of these organisms was the ancient ancestor of green algae.

Known as the Razanandrongobe sakalavae, or «Razana» for short, the animal is believed to be an ancient ancestor of crocodiles.

Although the bacteria shared common features (most live inside animals and many cause disease), the pattern of species carrying and lacking the gene suggested that the gene had been shuffled horizontally in the family tree, between distantly related species, not passed down from an ancient ancestor.

Surprisingly, the team also found 66 genes analogous to ones regulated by beneficial bacteria in the mouse intestine — suggesting that some host - bacterial interactions derive from an ancient ancestor of both mice and fish.

The gene responsible for the new strain's salt tolerance, taken from an ancient ancestor of modern wheat, may help other crops.

Strausfeld's and Wolff's analysis revealed a ground pattern organization that is common to mushroom bodies in all of the investigated species, suggesting its inheritance from an ancient ancestor, possibly 600 million years in the past.

«Ancient ancestor of humans with tiny brain discovered: Homo naledi raises intriguing questions about our evolutionary past.»

Scientists hoped he would reveal who first settled the Americas, while Native American tribes claimed he was an ancient ancestor whose remains should be respected and reburied.

Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles» most unusual shell came to be.

So the orangutan chromosome setup looks the most like the ancient ancestor revealed by Kim's team, with eight ancient chromosomes intact.

Spelt is an ancient ancestor of modern wheat that makes a dense, crisp - crusted bread.

Apparently he thought of it as coming in with «Adam's fall,» the transgression of an ancient ancestor fastening sin upon his descendants; but he also thought of it as related to the activities of demons, about the existence of which neither Paul nor his contemporaries had any doubt.

There is some controversy surrounding the scientific rationale of eating like our ancient ancestors — i.e., animal proteins and plants, the kinds of foods and that would be amassed by a hunter - gatherer society.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

In these and many other ways, we can feel our co-humanity with our ancient ancestors.

Our ancient ancestors just referred to them as «gods,» and for all intents and purposes, they were indeed.

Psuedogenes are remnants of genes that once served a purpose in our genome that they no longer fulfil, because of mutations that have rendered the genes nonfunctional, i.e., they no longer lead to the production of proteins (long chains of amino acids) that once contributed to specific characteristics in ancient ancestors.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Probiotics, especially the soil - based ones (the kind we'd be exposed to if we worked outside, got our hands dirty, and generally lived a human existence closer to that of our ancient ancestors), really seem to mesh well with resistant starch.

Considering this, it's important to remember that dates are actually seasonal — they weren't around all year around in every corner shop for our ancient ancestors and even more recently were more to just a Christmas treat.

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Our ancient ancestors grew up in a world of stress and scarcity.

Also, commenting on Paleo diet, I'm not sure just what it is, except that it's a diet of what some people think that our ancient ancestors ate ten thousand or more years ago.

How can we know what was available to our ancient ancestors, especially plant foods, as they might have had plants that no longer exist, and we might have plants that they did not have.

Sweet foods were a rare delicacy for our ancient ancestors.

You dismiss the wisdom and knowledge of our ancient ancestors and use faulty anologies.

Our ancient ancestors all breastfed their babies and toddler, so a new mother was always surrounded by a whole tribe of experienced, knowledgable and supportive women.

Clawed forelimbs allow northern seals to eat like their ancient ancestors.

Did our ancient ancestors build to please the ears as well as the eyes?

Caves in Europe and Russia housed the soil that researchers used to find genetic traces to our ancient ancestors.

Using information from fossils, and the DNA of living species, we were able to further determine that at around 24 million years old, Palaeopotorous is not just primitive, but likely represents the most distant forerunner of all known kangaroos, rat - kangaroos and their more ancient ancestors,» said Dr den Boer.

They stem from the idea that evolution makes minuscule changes over millions of years, so we haven't had enough time to adapt to the modern industrial world — and that we would be healthier and happier if we lived more like our ancient ancestors.

«He argues that the same neural circuits that drove our ancient ancestors to find food have morphed into human brains that push us to relentlessly seek information.

«When people think about our ancient ancestors, they either tend to have a view that our ancestors must have been primitive, less culturally diverse, or they take the view that our ancestors were probably extraordinarily culturally impressive,» says Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study.

Their ancient ancestors, however, had limbs of various shapes.

Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome — the set of genetic instructions for an organism, researchers report November 20 in Science Advances.

Decades ago paleoanthropologists argued about whether our ancient ancestors evolved large brains and then walked erect or became bipedal before they were brainy.

Think of it this way: our ancient ancestors had to forage in the savanna for food and water, but there was no telling where they would find these resources.

Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome, the set of genetic instructions for an organism, researchers report November 20 in Science Advances.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

But where did these microbes come from: our ancient ancestors, or our environment?

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

From millimeter - scale dots in surface waters to relative giants in the depths, larvaceans have jellyfish - translucent bodies but a cordlike structure (called a notochord) reminiscent of very ancient ancestors of vertebrates.

Now there's a powerful new approach for illuminating the world before the dawn of written history — reading the actual genetic code of our ancient ancestors.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

Silbury Hill is a shrine filled with rocks that, for Stone Age Britons, probably represented the spirits of ancient ancestors.