Sentences with phrase «ancient tree branches»

Its shape is reminiscent of gnarled, ancient tree branches.

Not exact matches

By William Agnew Patton In the midst of this cooly district there is an open space, an acre or two in extent, densely shaded by a very ancient, and far - spreading banyan - tree, under the branches of which the cooly people hold their market.

This discovery supports the idea that the platypus represents an ancient branch on the mammalian tree.

The San hunter - gatherer populations of southern Africa often have lightly pigmented skin, and belong to one of the most ancient branches of the Homo sapiens family tree.

A 2014 review noted five proposals for designating the most ancient stretch of supergroup branches, the bit that goes lowest on the new tree.

Focusing on the most evolutionarily unique and ancient species could allow us to save more branches of the tree of life, at the lowest cost and effort.

Nevertheless, the Ancient Beringians now have a branch on the family tree showing the origins of all Native American populations.

Given the European tree with Cornwall as British population branch, we map ancient samples onto this tree.

We then added the ancient individual as a separate seventh population to the European tree and evaluated the likelihood for this external branch to merge anywhere on the tree.

Back in the wild and wacky 19th century, some scientists held a notion called recapitulation theory, which claimed embryonic development followed the branches of an organism's ancient evolutionary tree, from, say, fish to lizard to dog to human.

It was from parts of this branch that ancient people had shaped the first seafaring craft, and it was from its sprouts that came all trees fit for building ships.

Constructed from weathered sections of dead trees that have been brought down from the mountains of Southern China and bolted together in the form of a whole, healthy tree with spreading branches, Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably ltree with spreading branches, Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably lTree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably lost.