Sentences with phrase «early animal evolution»

The finding may force us to reconsider our understanding of early animal evolution.
«If oxygen levels were 3 % and they rose past that 10 % threshold, that would have had a huge influence on early animal evolution,» he says.
In the new study, Professor Pisani and colleagues used cutting edge statistical techniques (Posterior Predictive Analyses) to test whether the evolutionary models routinely used in phylogenetics can adequately describe the genomic datasets used to study early animal evolution.
«She strategically picked an organism to gain insight into early animal evolution and systematically studied it,» said Dianne Newman, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who studies how bacteria coevolve with their environment.
«By placing Xenoturbella properly in the tree of life we can better understand early animal evolution
A new study by an team of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal phylum — and restores the classical view of early animal evolution, which recent molecular analyses had challenged.
«Mysterious new seafloor species sheds light on early animal evolution: A new species of the enigmatic marine worm Xenoturbella, dredged from the seafloor of the western Pacific, contributes to understanding of the early evolution of the Bilateria.»
Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.
«Oxygen levels were key to early animal evolution, strongest evidence now shows.»
My research addresses the chemical development of the early oceans and atmosphere, the environmental context of early animal evolution, and the geologic factors that regulate sedimentary basins.
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