Sentences with phrase «closest kin»

An overarching factor behind the interspecies tragedy at Gorilla World is how we have uncritically accepted the raising and displaying of gorillas, among our closest kin, behind glass or moats or fences in the first place.

Now, Nintendo is asking those same gamers to instead team up with their closest kin — to show they can take on the rest of the country.

People will hide money and jewelry from their closest kin.

At root, we define ourselves with reference to our families and closest kin and work outward from there.

But it's just the opposite for the young daughters: Their closest kin are in the immediate pod.

The process of revising textbooks — and reminding old - guard researchers of the change — takes time, which is why you may still see hominid referring to humans and our closest kin.

So McGovern settled for a canned concentrate of muscat grapes, considered to be the closest kin genetically to wild Eurasian grapes.

In previous work, Gagné had argued that J2126 belonged with a different group of stars, but he says that the new observations have convinced him that TYC 9486 is its closest kin.

Although chimps and humans are indeed closest kin, 15 % of the human genome more closely matches the gorilla's.

Calvapilosa wasn't the oldest creature in its primitive lineage, the researchers note, but it is the best known because fossils of its closest kin have been extremely fragmentary.

But how does our closest kin in the animal kingdom handle social unrest?

We can now differentiate religious humanism from the variety of Christian theism that is its closest kin.

Boaz, who turns out to be close kin to Naomi's deceased husband, is kind to Ruth and she gleans there for the whole harvest.

Close kin and a similar shape to the ever popular Fatali Pepper.

Fathers bring home extra calories — including meat, honey, and plant foods — and their contributions may be crucial if the mother lacks the help of other close kin (Marlowe 2005).

Jupiter's two biggest moons — apparently close kin — are in fact quite different inside.

Because many species of small - bodied theropods unearthed since the 1990s had been feathered, many researchers suggested that larger species of tyrannosaurs and their close kin could have feathers, as well, he notes.

Because Neandertals are much closer kin to us than are chimpanzees, which diverged from the human lineage 5 to 7 million years ago, matching Neandertal DNA against our own has the potential to reveal genetic changes that help define who we are.

Changing social norms, rather than rising mobility, may have led people to shun close kin as marriage partners, they hypothesize.

A new study found that female baboons that had the most stable relationships with other females weren't always the highest up in the dominance hierarchy or the ones with close kin around — but they were the nicest.

A study of house finches has demonstrated that in just 30 years, finches newly settled in Montana and Alabama begin to act quite different from each other, despite being close kin.

Evoked by a new analysis of a fossil tooth of the long - extinct animal, called Diprotodon, the scenario would be the only known seasonal mass migration among marsupials and their close kin.

So you cooperate with close kin because it helps get some of your shared genetic heritage into future generations.

According to a new analysis of a fossil tooth of the long - extinct animal, called Diprotodon, the scenario would be the only known seasonal mass migration among marsupials and their close kin.

It's actually been probably afflicting human beings and their close kin for [a] half million years.

And while 1983's Christine, based on Stephen King's contemporaneous novel, was closer kin to and may even have been inspired by The Car, it was a character study of an awkward teenager making friends with an angry Plymouth Fury that wondered which partner was really the evil one.

It's also close kin to what Ronald Reagan and Bill Bennett proposed for Title I back in the late 1980's.)

On paper, the GTS edges closer to the former, but behind the wheel it seems closer kin to the latter's rabid, high - revving, tremendously engaging nature.

Today serendipity is regarded as close kin to creativity — the mysterious means by which new ideas enter the world.

Hunting, because it provided necessary food for the hunter and his close kin, was more an enjoyable form of work than recreation.

If the dog or its close kin are bred, avoid mates who have PHPV / PTVL or have a family history of it.

Some suggest this is an example of interspecies altruism, with the humpbacks coming to the aid of their not - so - close kin.

In fact, its Warcraft III cartoon - like look makes it closer kin to the animated version of the books produced in the 70s than the Peter Jackson films.

I've rescued every immediate and not - so - immediate member of my family, and uncovered treasure after treasure after treasure from maps these close kin disclosed to my possession in gratitude for their freedom.

Some enemy AI uses the same spear / lance / halberd smash from Souls, while others are the brawlers» kind, making it easily one of the closest kins to the Souls franchise.

Not exact matches

The custom recounted in the performance of levirate marriage in Ruth 4:8 (by which the brother or the next closest male kin takes the wife of the deceased relative) is, we should judge, considerably earlier than Deuteronomy.

The UPPAbaby 2015 Vista Stroller with Seat Liner (Lindsey Wheat) grows to oblige your new expansion right from conception with their more seasoned kin close behind.

Some of these arthropods (whose closest living kin include insects, spiders, and crabs) were fierce hunters that grew to the size of an adult human, whereas some — such as those without claws or tail spines — likely filtered the water for prey or scavenged the sea floor for food.

The team also compared Ötzi's DNA with that of 1300 Europeans, 125 North Africans and 20 people from the Arab peninsula to establish that his closest living kin are found on Sardinia and Corsica.

This analysis showed that while Tibetan brown bears share a close common ancestry with their North American and Eurasian kin, Himalayan brown bears belong to a distinct evolutionary lineage that diverged early on from all other brown bears.

Pedrono's team has identified a very close relative of the extinct giant tortoises, and they plan to transplant a few hundred of them to Madagascar to help fill the ecological gaps left by their extinct kin.

For an alien world, this gas planet seems almost like kin; it's closer than any other known exoplanet.

They also do well in populations of close relatives, since helping kin helps the same genes reach the next generation.

She points to genetic analyses completed last year of the extracted pulpy material that indicated T. rex's closest known modern - day kin is the chicken.

Prairie dogs have an intricate social system composed of one male and several close - kin females and their offspring.

These findings highlight the potential long - term negative consequences of acute social disruption in cognitively advanced species that live in close - knit kin - based societies, and alter our perspective on the health and functioning of populations that have been subjected to anthropogenic disturbance.

[7] Prairie dogs with kin close by called more often than those that did not have kin nearby.

At the close of World War I, shell - shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no identity and no next of kin, he has nowhere else to go.

Cutting into each other's answers, fielding each other's questions, and trading favorite Onion headlines, they seem close as kin — a product, perhaps, of spending a few weeks firing bon mots for the director of Kicking And Screaming.

While Last Vegas has been sold as a geriatric spin on The Hangover, in truth, it's closer in kin to The World's End.