Sentences with phrase «evolutionary dead end»

As ancestors, they were shown as extremely modern looking; as evolutionary dead ends, they became stooped, beetle - browed cretins.

The other group is thought to have represented late «archaic» humans (Neanderthals), a supposed evolutionary dead end (Journal of Human Evolution, vol 25, p 393).

«Being unable to combine beneficial mutations from different individuals and unable to purge progressive accumulation of deleterious mutations, they are expected to represent evolutionary dead ends.»

«I'm extremely bullish on the future» of blockchains, he says, «but I view Bitcoin as a Neanderthal, an evolutionary dead end.»

«They are an evolutionary dead end,» explains biologist Tobias Pamminger of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany.

Although Equus survived in Eurasia after the last ice age, eventually leading to domestic horses, the stilt - legged Haringtonhippus was an evolutionary dead end.

Reconstructions of these evolutionary dead ends reveal exotic, palmlike plants called Noeggerathiales (a-d), their leaves interspersed with spinier foliage.

Romanian fossil was the great - great - great - grandson of a Neandertal — but an evolutionary dead end.

«We are not looking at an evolutionary dead end.

Given how often plants today undergo genome doubling and tripling, relatively few living species have multiple sets of DNA buried in their genomes, suggesting that such doubles often tend to be evolutionary dead ends.

The finding suggests that, far from being an evolutionary dead end, homosexual behavior can enhance a male's ability to pass on his genes by attracting females that wouldn't be interested in him otherwise.

«We don't know if the dogs that evolved [early] in Europe were an evolutionary dead end,» Frantz says, «but we can safely say that their genetic legacy has mostly been erased from today's dogs.»

They were long thought to have been an evolutionary dead end.

For these spiders, passivity represents an «evolutionary dead end» because it comes with quick payoffs but dooms the lineage over time, Pruitt says.

Yet he cautions that the «conclusions of the paper are overstated» because the study does not prove that prehistoric lice were actually infesting the direct ancestors of today's bird and mammal species rather than other animals that may have led to evolutionary dead ends.

While introgressive hybridization is thought to be common among plants, the finding suggests that hybridization in mammals may not be the evolutionary dead end biologists once commonly thought.

Lots of species have been proposed as «evolutionary dead ends» (though whether they actually are is another question).

Biologists once thought that hybridization between species was rare and an evolutionary dead end.

FFX feels in many ways like an evolutionary dead end for the series now, with its unique battle system and fixed camera angles in a 3D world.

[21] The LT5 however wasn't an evolutionary dead end.

The conversation around games seems to have turned inward, become repetitive, dull and effectively landed in an evolutionary dead end.

To that end, I'm going to be playing some Mega Man ZX Advent, which may prove to be the evolutionary dead end of the Mega Man series.

It's possible that augmented reality is the future and VR kits like Rift and Vive are an evolutionary dead end, but if so, we just don't know yet.

«The Blockstream fork of bitcoin diverges so radically from the ideas presented in the Bitcoin white paper, that it is an evolutionary dead end.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a bit of an evolutionary dead end.