Sentences with phrase «early branches of the tree»

Intriguingly, the initiating driver mutation of leukemogenesis occurred before the earliest branching of trees.

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One of the first branches off of the air - raid tree — he played receiver for air raid father Hal Mumme and godfather Mike Leach at Iowa Wesleyan in the early - 1990s — Holgorsen came to Stillwater from Houston, tasked with marrying air - raid principles to a Pat Jones core.

«In the Cretaceous amber we examine, the ants and termites represent the earliest branches of each evolutionary tree, and the species are wildly different from what their modern relatives look like today,» said co-author Phillip Barden, a recent graduate of the comparative biology doctoral program at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University.

Near the bottom of this succession of rocks is Ardipithecus — not a chimpanzee, and not a human — but from the earliest portion of our branch of the hominid family tree.

But Abbott, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since a 1984 accident, when a tree branch fell on him while he was out for a run, tweeted a message of support to Springer early last Friday.

Contrary to earlier studies, the analyses divided orb weavers, the many spider species that make the classic spiral webs and cobwebs, into two groupings and put them on very different branches of the tree.

Darwinius and Notharctus, on the other hand, are adapiform primates that are early relatives of living lemurs, the most distant branch of the primate family tree with respect to humans and other anthropoids.

Members of an earlier arachnid branch, called the Uraraneida, known from 385 - million - year - old fossils, were also spiderlike in appearance, Garwood said, but had a long, tail - like structure called the flagellum that disappeared before I. brasieri branched off the family tree.

Like the bizarre, beaver - tailed creature, which represents the earliest branch of mammals, the large shrub with off - white flowers sits on the lowest branch of the flowering plants» family tree.

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

But they have been unable to sort out the lowest, or earliest, branches of the plant family tree.

My guides at this early hour of the morning, ornithologists Chris Filardi and Paul Sweet of the American Museum of Natural History, are frozen in reverence by the sight of what they assure me is a male American redstart, fanning its tail as it hops from branch to branch at the very top of a tree.

Studies show that the San carry some of the most divergent (oldest) Y - chromosome haplogroups, specific sub-groups of A and B, the two earliest branches on the human Y - chromosome tree, suggesting they may be descendents of a population ancestral to all modern humans.

The team found two teeth belonging to rat - like animals that date back 145 million years, meaning they're among the earliest creatures on our particular branch of the tree of life to have been discovered.

His intentions are signposted so early on, in fact, that we're braced for the mask to slip before he's even formally introduced as the urbane, enigmatic branch of the Stoker family tree.

In the earlier stages of NSA surveillance, Stone offers a disturbing visual map of how the cellphone calls and emails of single person of interest branch off to this massive tree of millions of people — all of them being looked at because of someone they never met.

I blame it on seeing, as a teenager, reproductions of Piet Mondrian's tree paintings from the early 1910s: ever - thickening patterns of branches that flattened space, an evolution from figuration to some sort of Platonic essence of tree.

Alex Katz had done something similar in the early 1950s in paintings in which he worked the branches of bare winter trees into black crisscrossing networks.

German - born Tillmans, who has worked and exhibited in London in recent years, has smashed the boundary between commercial photography and art: much of his early work was for fashion magazines, including a famous image of four of his friends sitting in the branches of a tree, not wearing any clothes at all.

Incorporating natural materials such as beeswax and tree branches, both works are important early examples of Merz's life - long dedication to using humble materials from everyday life.

In earlier paintings, singular tree forms were crudely represented according to the principles of «bad: painting; while in recent schematic paintings on aluminum panels, trunks and branches form silhouettes that suggest the digital marks of art and design software, but are meticulously rendered by hand in oil paint.

The KidsMatter Learn Many Ways symbol of a tree with branches and strong roots reminds us of a young child's brain, how important the early years are in laying strong roots or foundations, and how the experiences a child has create the rich branching connections that build effective ways of lifelong learning.