Sentences with phrase «ancient relatives of»

As small omnivores and herbivores, Captorhinus and its relatives had to scrounge for food while avoiding being preyed upon by large meat - eating amphibians and ancient relatives of mammals.

The site contains abundant fossils, diverse assemblages of Triassic animals including relatives of crocodylians, giant - headed amphibians and ancient relatives of modern mammals called cynodonts.

Savor the whole grain goodness of spelt, an ancient relative of durum wheat that originated in the Near East over 8,000 years ago.

Kamut Kamut is a trademark name for a species of wheat that is an ancient relative of durum wheat.

GREAT APE In Disney's new The Jungle Book, King Louie is a Gigantopithecus, an ancient relative of orangutans.

THE odd leg bones and prominent brow ridges of a fossil hominid found in Belgium in 1830 clearly belong to an ancient relative of Homo sapiens.

The fossil find, an ancient relative of today's bleeding hearts, poses a new puzzle in the study of plant evolution: did Earth's dominant group of flowering plants evolve along with its distinctive pollen?

Don McCulloch of the federal police in South Australia reports that the 1 - tonne chunk of quartzite — an impression of an ancient relative of jellyfish — has been traced to a museum near Tokyo.

According to a new study, the ancient relative of modern - day otters may have been a dominant predator.

An ancient relative of wheat, spelt originated in the Middle East and gained widespread popularity in Europe as far back as 750 - 15 B.C..

Kamut ® is also an ancient relative of modern wheat, durum wheat to be exact.

Khorasan wheat is a thousand years old grain that is believed to be the ancient relative of modern durum wheat.

Not exact matches

The ancients imaged the universe in terms of four directions or quarters horizontally, laid out relative to the society doing the mapping, with the center of the world located in the holy city and / or capital of each nation in turn.

We thus find the typical ancient picture of a domed canopy over the sky, supported by pillars, with a flat earth below floating on a watery abyss, with sun, moon and stars moving in the heavens relative to the earth, and with the world axis intersecting the sacred center of one's nation.

While in the physical world differences have a history and a relationality as ancient and as wide as the cosmos, in the intellect they are considered intheir specificity - their «formal» specificity - relative to the intellectual «matter» or «context» of the genus.

The sculpture of Ancient Greece, often of Olympian deities, was admired but the exuberance of much Hindu art was puzzling and Pöhlmann writes that «what is annoying about many images of the gods is their kitsch», although he adds that kitsch is a very relative term.

Sensing the «newness» of Pope Benedict's approach (which is, in fact, an ancient one) and aware of the historic magnitude and importance of his visit, an unthinkable thing happened among my English relatives - they were inspired!

Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern culture knows that the familial structure we see represented in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives living together in clans, with women working long hours «outside of the home» in the fields, tending sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..

Finally, Tillich's greatest weakness was his relative inability to discern in classic religious symbols the fresh complexity of meaning that he found (with ease, insight and fluidity) in symbols from ancient Greek and modern secular culture.

The Song of Moses or Miriam (15: 1 - 18) has usually been taken as a later expansion of the original, very ancient two lines attributed to Miriam in 15: 21, although some have more conservatively maintained the originality and antiquity of the long poem.11 In any case, we affirm its relative antiquity, subject of course to modification (for example, to accommodate the reference to the tenth - century temple in Jerusalem, vv.

Gramsci does not mention that in the Discourses Machiavelli expresses an admiration for the religion of the ancient Romans, a truly «civil religion» relative to which he found Christianity largely impotent politically.

Fire cider is a modern relative of the ancient four thieves vinegar, a legendary herb and vinegar infusion believed to protect against the plague.

This ancient grain is a relative to today's modern wheat, is a good source of dietary fiber, and adds a nuttiness and richness to baked goods when used as a substitute for wheat flour.

Hmm interesting — while I appreciate you leaving your comment, I'm not sure I understand your logic of why being ancient would cause gluten to react differently — from what I know about khorasan it is only a relative of wheat and * may * be suitable to * some * with a wheat allergy.

That's how large scientists believe the brain of a newly discovered species of an ancient human relative was...

How accurate are today's clocks relative to the first clocks of ancient times?

More than 100 species of chaetognaths are alive today, but evidence of their ancient relatives is spotty.

Hook structures stand out in the baby's ribs — probably the remnants of arms from an ancient squid relative.

Named Eophyllium messelensis, the insect looks almost identical to its modern relatives, indicating the group is ancient, was once widespread, and has hardly changed in millions of years.

DNA retrieved from a child's worn - down fossil tooth shows the ancient Asian roots of extinct Neandertal relatives called Denisovans, researchers say.

He then estimated the average temperature of a modern versus an ancient subducting slab, relative to the temperature of the surrounding mantle.

The finding adds further evidence that ancient dinos shared many of the same behaviors as their modern bird relatives.

Some ancient echinoids, ophiuroids, and asteroids had slipped the bottleneck and coexisted with the ancestors of modern - day sea urchins, brittle stars, sand dollars, and relatives, for many millions of years.

But «Itchy» was no reptile: The animal, known from two partial skulls and described in July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, was actually an ancient mammal relative.

Samples of ancient carbon deposits from this era show a marked increase in concentrations of carbon - 12 relative to its heavier isotope carbon - 13, indicating a lot of lighter carbon might have been suddenly released at the time.

Believed to be roughly the size of a dachshund, Ichibengops lived around 255 million years ago, and was a member of Therocephalia, a group of ancient mammal relatives that survived the largest mass extinction in history (the Permian - Triassic extinction).

Angielczyk, whose work focuses on ancient mammal relatives, explained the importance of finding new species like Ichibengops.

Many of the species Darwin discovered in the fossils were previously unknown to science, including several giant ground sloths, compact car — sized relatives of armadillos called glyptodonts (SN Online: 2/22/16) and ancient kin of horses and elephants.

Also present in the ancient swamp forests of central Mongolia were a variety of extinct plants thought to be early conifers, but that have no clear living relatives.

ANCIENT NETWORKERS DNA from four Stone Age people — including the two shown here as they looked when excavated, top, and at the time of death, bottom — suggests that hunter - gatherers have long formed groups with few close relatives.

This was apparent in the increasing levels of inbreeding found amongst domesticates, but also through an enhanced accumulation of deleterious mutations in their genomes relative to the ancient wild horses.

A team of researchers, led by the University of Edinburgh (UK) and including Swarthmore College Associate Professor of Statistics Steve C. Wang, examined the evolutionary links between ancient birds and their closest dinosaur relatives.

Vreeland is now comparing the genes of the ancient bug with those of two contemporary relatives: Bacillus marismortui, from the Dead Sea, and Virgibacillus pantothenticus.

Researchers are finally getting to know one of our most mysterious ancient relatives, thanks to DNA from a 110,000 - year - old tooth.

«Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba: Reconstruction of the ancient, dinosaur - era relative of today's Ginkgo biloba plant.»

Yet two ancient anklebones from Pakistan indicate that whales are descended from artiodactyls, a group of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes modern sheep, cows, pigs, and camels — along with hippos, which appear to be whales» closest living relatives.

Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.

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.

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.

Dinosaurs arrived hot on the tails of their more ancient relatives, reptiles called dinosauromorphs, a new study shows.