Sentences with phrase «ancient group»

Genetic studies suggest that liverworts — humble, stumpy plants related to mosses, which now commonly grow on damp soils — are the most ancient group of plants alive today.

Marine sponges are the most ancient group of multicellular animalsliving on Earth.

Studies of the haplotype distribution of both mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes will become increasingly extensive and finely detailed, enabling us to plot the movements of ancient groups with greater precision.

That's according to a new study that documented 3,931 types of bacteria and Archaea (an even more ancient group of organisms) in sub-glacial Lake Whillans.

many paleontologists think that these animals arose 65 million years ago, this new work suggests that the two most ancient groups appeared a little more than 100 million years ago during the breakup of the giant southern continent called Gondwana.

Modern sociology of religion outfits ancient groups with the same features as modem religious organizations (e.g., Rodney Stark's The Rise of Christianity, 1996).

Definitely one of my most beloved ancient group of bad asses is the vikings.

«I would look closely at the possibility that several, maybe many, ancient groups existed in Africa, some as different as H. naledi, but some [early] forms of humans like Jebel Irhoud as well,» Hawks says.

But in 2010, researchers discovered a finger bone from a previously unknown ancient group of pre-human folk.

Denisovans interbred with that other ancient group, the Neandertals, he notes.

Each different ancient group — or haplogroup — tells a different story of creation, migration, struggle and ultimately survival.

The greyhounds belong to a very ancient group of dogs.

If that's the case, Odontochelys may have descended from a more ancient group of armored terrestrial turtles.

Ancient groups of hunter - gatherers followed these grazing animals from North Africa into Arabia as climate fluctuations periodically turned deserts into grasslands with lakes and rivers, Petraglia proposes.

A shrub from the most ancient group of flowering plants alive today steals and hoards genes from other species on a staggering scale.

I'm not convinced that just because another ancient group of people believed it was a «hard dome» that necessarily we have to force that belief on the Hebrews.

The Order Testudines includes both living and extinct species, the earliest turtles being known from the early Triassic Period, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups, and a much more ancient group than the lizards and snakes.

The book roughly follows a chronological path, starting with such treasures as the world's oldest pot plant — a cycad from an ancient group that outlived the dinosaurs and has been housed at Kew since 1775.

«This skull comes from an ancient group of apes that existed in Africa for over 10 million years and was close to the evolutionary origin of living apes and humans,» says Nengo, of Stony Brook University in New York and De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif..

Ancient DNA offers clues to the Canaanites» fate An analysis of five Canaanites» genetic instruction manuals not only revealed the ancient group's roots, but also identified descendants — modern Lebanese people (SN Online: 7/27/17).

Bacteria are an ancient group that date back about 3.6 billion years, almost as old as the planet itself.

Lungfish are members of an ancient group of lobe - finned fishes (Class Dipnoi), having a continuous fossil record originating in the Devonian period around 400 million years ago.

They belong to an ancient group of creatures known as archaea, but they seem to share some features with more complex life - forms, including us.

The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea, an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.

This frog genus is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and represents an ancient group of frogs that diversified on the Indian landmass approximately 70 - 80 million years ago.

Air breathing was crucial for the success of vertebrate land animals and appeared in an ancient group known as sarcopterygiian fish, which evolved into amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Indian night frogs are an ancient group of frogs, which diversified approximately 70 - 80 million years ago.

Until now, many researchers had thought that the Botai culture, an ancient group of hunters and herders that relied on horses for food and possibly transport in what today is northern Kazakhstan, first harnessed horses 5500 years ago.

In an article in Nature, researchers from the California Polytechnic State University say that their specimen was one of an ancient group of conifer - feeding beetles.

Arachnids are an ancient group with murky origins, Garwood told Live Science.

«It is clearly great that [genetic] data has become available» from these ancient groups, says Marie - France Deguilloux, a paleogeneticist from the University of Bordeaux in France, who adds that having such DNA sequences is «crucial» to tracing the spread of farming to Europe.

Hagfishes are an ancient group of bottom - dwelling creatures that have remained relatively unchanged for more than 300 million years.

Researchers from Boston College, US, have revealed the global spread of an ancient group of retroviruses that affected about 28 of 50 modern mammals» ancestors some 15 to 30 million years ago.

His team's studies of the Y chromosome — the male sex chromosome — trace about half of modern Chinese men back to three ancient groups.

Because only a few of these ancient groups survived, humans are much less genetically diverse than other primates, even though there are many more of us on the planet.

Maybe there was a border or boundary between the two ancient groups.

Its small but important genetic tweak almost certainly came from an ancient group of pre-human relatives, scientists now report.

Free membership to one of the Today, Jews in Azerbaijan mainly consist of three distinct groups: Mountain Jews, the most sizable and most ancient group; Ashkenazi Jews, who settled in

Never mind that her skin is now infected with the Aether, a weapon of mass destruction from an ancient group called the Dark Elves (who speak perfect English no less).

The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; t...

The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; their children, their weapons and their pets.

Wilson's latest reveals the existence of an ancient group of mechanical beings who have lived among humans for millennia.

In all likelihood many breeds, if the records were available, could track a continuous lineage of thousand of years and yet didn't end up the in the «ancient group» in our paper.

The Ancient group did not include the Pharaoh Hound, Ibizan Hound or some other breeds that we believe have been around for thousands of years.

You take up the mantle of Death, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse whose job it is to maintain balance at the behest of the Charred Council, an ancient group of beings.

Two years later, the developers followed up with Rise of the Tomb Raider, introducing the infamous Trinity organization, an ancient group that wants to control the world.