Like lampreys, they are considered to be «living fossils» similar to
the early relatives of vertebrates that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
Early relatives of the sauropods, the Late Triassic plateosaurs or prosauropods, may have occasionally stood on their hind legs.
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.
Early relatives of dinosaurs called dinosauromorphs (two creatures shown at right) as well as early cousins of mammals (at left) lived in what is now South America about 235 million years ago.
They also present evidence for similar differences between the sexes in Australopithecines (
early relatives of humans), suggesting that women long ago evolved such scaffolding to compensate for walking upright while supporting their swelling wombs.
So it's possible that
these early relatives of modern mammals evolved in cooler, upland areas and that the dinosaurs were in the hotter, lowland areas.
The original version of The March of Progress, drawn for a popular science book in 1965, lined up all
the early relatives of humans known at the time in chronological order.
Some 125 million years ago, a chicken - size Sinosauropteryx,
an early relative of T. rex, scampered through northeastern China.
The jewel was an exquisitely preserved skull of
an early relative of giraffes, Samotherium.
WHALE IN TRANSITION The skull of Mystacodon, a 36 - million - year - old whale found in Peru, is
an early relative of today's baleen whales.
Artist's reconstruction of Timurlengia euotica,
an early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex whose keen hearing probably made it an effective predator.
Newly described fossils (including a lower jaw, inset) suggest that Janjucetus,
an early relative of modern whales that strain tiny crustaceans from large volumes of seawater, used suction feeding instead to grab indi
* Correction, 5 May, 3:57 p.m.: An earlier version of this story stated that mosasaurs were living 130 million years ago at the time of
the earliest relatives of modern birds.
A newly discovered dinosaur, Lythronax, was
an early relative of T. rex and had big sharp teeth and binocular vision.
A newly discovered
early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was a fearsome predator in what's now southern Utah about 80 million years ago, according to a study.
The ancient dolphin is
an early relative of modern dolphins and porpoises.
Not exact matches
Early on, these scarce assets are typically available at lower
relative costs because the sellers / leasers don't initially appreciate future demand or the scarcity
of their offerings.
Are you worried about the future
of new drug creation, given the
relative lack
of early - stage pharma investing?
But that all changed
earlier this month when Florida public health officials reported a handful
of cases originating from mosquito bites in the
relative small, one - square - mile neighborhood
of Wynwood just north
of downtown Miami.
Macau authorities are tracking down almost HK$ 48 million worth
of cash chips stolen from Wynn casino
earlier this week, following the arrest
of a debt - ridden croupier and his elderly
relative in connection with the crime.
According to an ethics disclosure made public Friday, Ivanka Trump received at least $ 12.6 million since
early 2016, either directly or through her trust (which is held by
relatives of her husband, White House senior advisor Jared Kushner).
The form
of investment is dependent on the company's
relative maturity with seed stage investments typically structured as convertible notes while
early stage companies issue preferred equity in exchange for investor funds.
Although the banking sector has been lacking
relative strength to the S&P 500, $ KBE is staging a bit
of a comeback after living below its 10 - week MA from late August to
early October.
The bill's passage also potentially complicates Treasury issuance
relative to the debt ceiling, as lower tax receipts under the new tax plan could cause Treasury to run out
of extraordinary measures
earlier than originally thought.
For me the main information coming out
of CPI inflation data is that consumer demand
relative to total production continues to be too weak to drive up prices, something confirmed
earlier this week by the August trade numbers, which failed to suggest strong growth in domestic demand.
Except for a period in the
early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding
of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely
of trade finance, exploded
relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.
The price
of crude at Houston
earlier this week tumbled to a record discount
of more than $ 4 / bbl
relative to Brent, the international benchmark.
Continuing into the
early afternoon, the panel moved through several tangential topics, all
of which seemed to be laying a foundational understanding for how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might emerge
relative to other possibilities, including government - issued cryptocurrencies, e-money, and digital fiat currency (DFC).
Note that after hitting a fresh high in
early May
of 2006, the performance
of our stocks -
relative to the S&P 500 - trailed off modestly.
But if you again look at the performance graphs I referenced
earlier, you'll see that all
of our Funds have endured periods, sometimes for several years, when they have either lost money or lost ground
relative to their benchmarks.
It is only popular because it boosts some prices
relative to other prices, thus temporarily benefiting some parts
of the economy at the expense
of other parts, and because the
early users
of the new money get to do the bulk
of their spending / investing before prices rise.
There were several possible catalysts suggested for this spike in concerns about a favorable outcome
of the debt ceiling negotiation, which has to be concluded ahead
of the Treasury's X Date, now expected as
early as October 1: some cited Steven Mnuchin's interview on CNBC, in which the Treasury Secretary said that the additional spending needed to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey may reduce the amount
of time Congress has to increase the federal debt limit; another possibility was month - end liquidity needs and
relative positioning across the curve.
This change in
relative wages and the relatively modest adjustment in overall wages have been helped by the combination
of well - anchored inflation expectations and a more flexible labour market, particularly in comparison to
earlier terms
of trade booms.
The following monthly chart shows that
relative to a broad basket
of commodities *, gold commenced a very long - term bull market (47 years and counting) in the
early - 1970s.
There has been considerably less adjustment
of interest rates in the current episode, however,
relative to
earlier commodity price booms; for example, the energy boom in the late 1970s /
early 1980s, which was smaller than the current resource boom.
Paul sought to establish a new fundraising paradigm — one that rewarded risk - tolerant investors willing to make a wager before knowing who else they would be investing alongside — by offering different terms to different investors and increasing the
relative attractiveness
of investing
early.
Correlations, which remained elevated throughout the fall, with all
of the majors hitting new lows in a concerted fashion, are now breaking down slightly and some coins are showing
early signs
of relative strength.
Earlier in the day, three other twentysomethings were reportedly beheaded after ISIS members heard rumors that one
of their
relatives had met with a Kurdish leader.
just like a velociraptor was an
early form
of a bird, we know this by looking at its dna (which we now have), they had feathers and their closest genetic
relative alive today is an ostrich.
Early cosmologies also pictured the cosmos
relative to the human observer, as we continue to do when we speak
of sending a rocket «upward» into space or refer to Australians as living «down under.»
Some
of my
earliest memories are
of gatherings at my grandparents small apartment in Milwaukee where my
relatives would crowd around the dining - room table and talk passionately about Israel.
Our story
of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book
of Ruth, indicates that in
early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male
relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality
of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal
of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration
of plot, and the skillful employment
of suspense.
Coming out means remembering my other
relatives and
early friends, in the hope that they can trust, and celebrate, the parts we have played in the shaping
of one another's values.
A more realistic portrayal
of the future
of Humanity 4.5 would star the
relative few who are going to use the enormous wealth accumulated by the globalist bourgeois empire to fund their own Promethean futures, self - cast in the role
of «
early adopters» whose job is to keep the cutting edge
of progress sharp.
On the other hand, there is in the history
of science more continuity than one would expect from Feyerabend or from Kuhn's
earlier work, in which truth is entirely
relative to a succession
of self - contained language systems dominated by diverse paradigms.
As suggested
earlier, many
of these changes occur in the
relative near term and thus may have serious repercussions on religious and other institutions.
The post was actually about a
relative newcomer to the scripture tweeting game: Chris Juby
of the UK, who started his project (@biblesummary)
earlier this month.
I suggest that we have to reconsider the
relative importance we give to the
earlier works
of Whitehead (the so called pre-systematic works), to the more technical «trilogy» (SR, RM, PR) and to the post-systematic works (such as AI and MT).
To some extent, this attitude
of denial has come about because
of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number
of deaths at an
early age; the development
of specialized professions for the care
of the dying and the dead; the emergence
of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most
of us live at some distance from aging and dying
relatives, including parents; the growth
of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.
In sharp contrast to
earlier tribal and feudal patterns, the bourgeois family made possible the freedom
of a man and woman to choose each other, to live with their children in
relative independence from wider kinship groups, and to form a bond in which obligation is reinforced by affection.