Sentences with phrase «branches on the tree of»

Every species is a branch on the tree of life.

How is is branch on the tree of evolution not get pruned?

I have heard from several and know that you have found your branches on the tree of nutrition knowledge and you are growing.

«Global biodiversity catastrophes are not about death but about the pruning of evolutionary branches on the tree of life at a rate much higher than the sprouting of new shoots,» added co-author Ivo Duijnstee, an adjunct assistant professor of integrative biology.

Newly described little scaly bits could push back the fossil record of the moth - and - butterfly branch on the tree of life by some 70 million years.

«This is a major new division in the family tree of exoplanets, somewhat analogous to the discovery that mammals and lizards are separate branches on the tree of life,» Fulton said.

The find means the branch on the tree of life that contains modern birds is now surrounded by animals with four wings, says Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, which suggests the four - wing condition may have been an important step in the origin of birds.

This understanding offers insights into how cancers develop and also has implications for efforts to use DNA to date branches on the tree of life.

Why two types of single - celled organism that form the deepest branch on the tree of life — bacteria and archaea — have completely different cell membranes

Scientists once thought that every type of organism occupied a distinct branch on the tree of life; new species evolved as their genomes slowly mutated or recombined through sex.

«The green plants are one of the most diverse branches on the tree of life, with a half million species that range in size from planktonic unicells to redwood trees.

Their work, which is reductive and sparse, represents a few branches on the tree of monochromatic painting after Ryman.

Courtesy of the DOE Joint Genome Institute, here is a photo tour of what life is like for these scientists as they travel the world, a trip which resulted in 29 new branches on the tree of life.

Not exact matches

Like Miles Davis and other «superboss» artists, Prince prided himself on being the foundation of a talent tree, and watching his branches find their own paths.

In the upper world, mind, thought, and ideas make their appearance as fruit on the topmost branches of an evolutionary tree.

We like to sit there in the near - dark and watch them, swooping down to the forest floor, returning to rest on the branches of the trees with their prizes.

But on a tree which has had to struggle against inner accidents of its own development and external accidents of climate, the broken branches, the torn leaves, and the dried or sickly or wilted blossoms have their place: they reveal to us the greater or lesser difficulties encountered by the tree itself in its growth.

If, on the tree of life, the mammals form a dominant branch, indeed the dominant branch, then the primates (that is, the cerebro - mammals) are its leading shoot, and the anthropoids are the bud in which the shoot ends.

That branch on the evolution tree of mans soul gets cut off when it is not fit for the kingdom it is evolving towards.

It's like a branch on a tree, there's still the rest of the tree, it's not like it just disappears.

His reflections on these issues culminate in chapter 11, where the theme of Israel's apistia arises once again in Paul's metaphor about the olive branches broken off the tree: «They were broken off because of their apistia, but you [gentiles] stand only through pistas... But even these, if they do not persist in apistia, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.»

Sounds like you only base your criticism on one religious / philosophical branch of the tree of knowledge.

In other words, what phase of its «phyletic» development may we consider Mankind to have attained at the present time, in comparison with the other branches surrounding us on the tree of life?

Another branch on the new monastic family tree is the Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco.

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

Sethe's tree is carved upon her back, «the decorative work of an ironsmith too passionate for display,» and Paul D «rubbed his cheek on her back and learned that way her sorrow, the roots of it, its wide trunk and intricate branches,... and he would tolerate no peace until he had touched every ridge and leaf of it with his mouth.»

Settled heavily on another branch of the family tree was Amy Lowell, and on still another branch perched A. Laurence Lowell, sometime president of Harvard.

He used the analogy of white oak trees, which hold on to their leaves through the winter and shed the vestige of their former life only when spring arrives and new life flows through the branches.

April 14, 2012 at 11:00 am Just on the accounts of humanisms» history trees are ladled with the religious being ever so fearful of God's impending wrath should they investigate things does in no way or shape or formula make today's closeted christians alikened to their pruned branches being thown upon the dung heaps!

In the front yard I know female cardinals set on branches of leafed - out cherry tree, their chirps kick and twirl.

There are even buds forming on some of the neighbourhood trees and shrubs, and I know that it won't be long before the bare branches of the cherry trees lining our street are alive with blossoms.

They are abundant in the Mediterranean and in Bulgaria, and growing up, I loved how I could find a mulberry tree on a random street, and all I had to do was stand up on my tippy toes, and grab a handful of fruit, from the low - hanging, berry - laden tree branches.

Water droplets hang on the branches of my bare cherry tree.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

The sound of cardinals settling, curious, on the branches of our persimmon tree.

a couple of years ago, I climbed up into my tree with plastic, tape and soil — to make 4 layerings on several branches, None of them took — today I learned this (from California Rare Fruit Growers Org):

Natty Hagood is a ski instructor in Jackson Hole, Wyo. who not only supplied this terrifying photo to the Idaho State Journal, but gave the best quotes of all time from anyone impaled on a tree branch.

One second you're skiing down one of the world's most beautiful slopes, the next your face is impaled on a tree branch.

After watching Covey play the six - game jayvee season, including a game in which Covey completed 47 of 77 passes for 520 yards, Edwards sensed that the latest branch on the Cougars» Gifford Nielsen - Marc Wilson - Jim McMahon - Steve Young - Robbie Bosco family quarterback tree had shown itself.

There are creeks to cross on the backs of downed tree branches, my water gets light, and I am feeling the altitude.

Into shallow dishes we put green paint for the trees and holding J's hand I helped him make a hand print on the card blank with his palm as the base of the tree and his fingers as the branches.

Talk about the sparrow lookin» like a toy Pickin'through the branches of a tree; Talk about the girl, talk about the boy Countin» all the ripples on the sea.

When we were chopping trees down in the back garden we had a pile of branches for a couple of weeks and Ozzy used to love playing with his dinosaurus on it pretending it was «Dino - World»!

My son was born in winter, and now spring was just beginning to blossom — little buds waving on the branches of the tree outside our window.

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Nectarines may sometimes be found growing on the branches of a peach tree and vice versa — and, in recipes, they're completely interchangeable!

Draw the basic outline of a tree trunk and branches on a large piece of paper.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that this is where you get roses and take digital photos of the new branch on your family tree.

Most of the damage from Sandy and Tropical Storm Irene last year involved trees or branches falling on wires.

Marine scientist Kevin McAllister, founder and president of water quality advocacy group Defend H20, called the number of plastic bags stuck in tree branches and scattered on local beaches «omnipresent.»