Sentences with phrase «ancient lineages of»

The ancient lineage of man's best friend is kind of a tangled mess.

«It's exciting evidence for a previously unrecognised species within the ancient lineage of Amazon river dolphins,» says Scott Baker of Oregon State University in Newport.

Mimi, it turns out, belongs to its own distinct and extremely ancient lineage of large DNA viruses.

In the ancient lineage of paleognath birds (such as tinamous, ostriches and kiwis) the intermedium comes closer to the anklebone, producing a dinosaur - like pattern.

This illustration in a fish with a proven ancient lineage of a highly evolved system controlling variations in heart rate suggests that its evolution was necessarily linked to the advent of air breathing over primitive vertebrate lungs rather than the much later appearance of mammals.

Another unexpected result was that honeybees seem to be derived from an ancient lineage of cavity - nesting bees that arrived from Asia around 300,000 years ago and rapidly spread across Europe and Africa.

This newly discovered species of otter, Siamogale melilutra, belongs to an ancient lineage of extinct otters that was previously known only from isolated teeth recovered from Thailand.

One of the most famous «living fossils» and one of only a few venomous mammals, the Hispaniolan Solenodon is one of the last representatives of an ancient lineage of shrew like mammals that lived with dinosaurs from 76 million years ago.

This ancient lineage of humans went extinct about 40,000 years ago, about the same time modern humans expanded across the world.

With its roots in Turkestan, the Kangal comes from an ancient lineage of mastiffs, guarding livestock such as sheep against large predators.

Both of these fine breeds come from an ancient lineage of herding dogs in Turkey, and though they may share several similarities, they are also recognized as separate breeds.

Not exact matches

But ever since the time of Jesus, it would be quite impossible to establish the legal or biological lineage of any pretender to David's throne, as all the ancient genealogical records were destroyed soon after that.

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

By homologizing these deities (i.e., the lineage ideology of ancient Japan) with the ancestor worship of the common people, the government thought to create a feeling of national unity and dedication.

As researchers recently sequenced the genomes of more than a dozen ancient members of our species, Homo sapiens, in Europe and Asia in rapid succession, they added a third genetic component: a «ghost» lineage of nomads who blew into northeast Europe from the steppes of western Asia 4000 to 5000 years ago.

«It shows that the relationship between ticks and birds is an ancient one: It was present in the ancestors of both lineages.»

However, new research led by the University of Bristol has identified the cause of this «flip - flop» effect, and in doing so, has revealed sponges are the most ancient lineage.

«We found a single variant that shows how three ancient lineages came together about 48,000 years ago, plus or minus only a couple of hundred years.

Scientists examined mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mothers to offspring, to trace maternal lineages of ancient and modern dogs and wolves.

Indeed, our analysis shows it to be a member of the most ancient cichlid lineage that contributed to the so - called East African Radiation, a spectacular burst of diversification that has given rise to a huge variety of species,» Reichenbacher explains.

«The finding of an ancient lineage that is present in Europeans and Near Easterners but not elsewhere in Eurasia was a major surprise of our study.

Overall, comparing Vadasaurus's features with those of earlier and later pleurosaurs may provide scientists with insights about how evolution might have progressed among other, totally separate lineages of ancient creatures that also undertook the land - to - sea transition, including ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas worldwide during large portions of the dinosaur era.

«In the same way that the genome sequence of the platypus — a survivor of an ancient lineage — can help us study the evolution of all mammals, the genome sequence of Amborella can help us learn about the evolution of all flowers,» said Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo.

Importantly, none of the ancient horses analyzed in the study were inbred, which suggests that Scythian breeders succeeded in maintaining natural herd structures and did not perform selection through a limited number of valuable lineages.

The discovery of several new species of ancient origin can provide useful insights into the evolution of endemic frog lineages in the Western Ghats, which is a leading amphibian hotspot.

Walking upright is one of the defining features of the human lineage, and as feet are the only structure that make contact with the ground in bipeds, they can tell us a lot about our ancient relatives» way of moving.

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

Now a genetic study of modern - day cohanim has provided the first scientific evidence supporting the oral tradition of an ancient priestly lineage.

The researchers also estimated ancient Denisovan population sizes by using methods to estimate the age of various gene lineages and the amount of difference between the chromosomes the girl inherited from her mother and father.

Or at least, their lineage did, according to Spanish paleoanthropologists who analyzed 17 ancient skulls from a deep bone pit in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain.

So she and postdoc Joseph Lachance, along with a multinational team, sequenced the DNA of three hunter - gatherer groups living in Africa today: the Hadza and Sandawe from Tanzania and the Pygmies from Cameroon, some of the most ancient lineages in the world.

However, while most fish in the sea have bones, one ancient lineage — sharks, skates and rays — possess skeletons made entirely of cartilage.

Putting together the genetic data on the ancient and modern samples, namely those already present in the literature and those analysed in this study, researchers have now proposed the following scenario to explain the Iceman's genetic history: Ötzi's paternal lineage, G2a, is part of an ancient genetic substrate that arrived in Europe from the Near East with the migrations of the first Neolithic peoples some 8,000 years ago.

The Ganges river dolphin is not only the only member of its genus, but of its family, Plantanistidae, representing an ancient lineage in the order Cetartiodactyla.

Together with other international partners, Yakimov's team has already identified more than ten new lineages of bacteria and archaea (these are ancient bacteria - like organisms), which they have named the Mediterranean Sea Brine Lake Divisions.

We show the utility of this framework by focusing on a clade in the montane angiosperm genus Heuchera, noteworthy in that it experienced ancient introgression from circumboreally distributed species of Mitella, lineages now ~ 1300 km disjunct.

If both developmental processes evolved from an ancient primitive spermatogenesis prototype, one would predict the presence of at least some common male gametogenesis - specific regulators in both lineages.

Therefore, the second protein is likely a more divergent duplicate of the ancient Boule gene, specific to the Cnidarian lineage.

A closest neighbour analysis in the phylogeny showed that Indian populations have an affinity towards Southern European populations and that the time of divergence from these populations substantially predated the Indo - European migration into India, probably reflecting ancient shared ancestry rather than the Indo - European migration, which had little effect on Indian male lineages.

Our results suggest that two distinct systems underlie quantity discrimination in both humans and fish, implying that the building blocks of uniquely human mathematical abilities may be evolutionarily ancient, dating back to before the divergence of bony fish and tetrapod lineages.

We also observed 48 % South - Asian - specific mitochondrial lineages among the ancient samples, which might have resulted from the assimilation of local females during the initial settlement.

With rising interest in wellness comes responsibility to preserve the traditions and knowledge our teachers and our teachers» teachers shared with us — many of them come from ancient lineages that deserve reverence and proper acknowledgment, even if they are mysterious or unknown to you.

These teachers each play a profound role in the dissemination of dharma from its ancient roots, and the perpetuation of modern day parampara, the acceleration of lineage and teachings passed down from teacher to student over time.

In the ancient wisdom traditions, this an important practice to connect with your source of inspiration, continuousness support and blessings from the lineage masters.

It is unfortunate that students who have not yet matured in their own practice have changed the method and have cut out the essence of an ancient lineage to accommodate their own limitations.

The Orthodox faith is the ancient faith of the earliest Christians and the Orthodox Church traces her lineage back to the Apostles themselves.

Whitmarsh traces a lineage of unbelievers among the ancient Greeks that includes the historian Thucydides, the philosopher Democritus, and the poet Diagoras of Melos.

1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe.

A dog of ancient lineage, the Irish water spaniel can be traced back to the days when spaniels were divided into land and water varieties.

The Norwegian Elkhound is indeed one of the more ancient breeds that can trace its lineage back to the days of the Vikings.