Sentences with phrase «fits into its family tree»

Not exact matches

The hard work began when paleontologists tried to fit it into the dinosaur family tree.

«The family tree is even more bushy than that, but people are still trying to fit things into pre-existing categories.»

The find also adds to the tantalizing clues about how these moose - sized, presumably shaggy progenitors fit into the camel family tree — a lineage that today boasts only two species of true camels but includes plenty of South American relatives such as llamas, alpacas, guanacos, and vicuñas.

Interested in how her study subjects fit into the elephant family tree, she collected samples from savannah and forest elephants in both West and central Africa.

The tree doesn't fit into a living genus of this family, however; the closest analogue, according to Hill, appears to be fossils of trees that lived 90 to 50 million years ago, in the Cretaceous and Tertiary Periods.

But the new - found fossils» traits do not neatly fit A. sediba into the hominin family tree, which includes only humans and our ancestors and extinct cousins.

A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution finds that Homo floresiensis, a teensy little hominin species first discovered only a little more than a decade ago in a cave on the indonesian island of Flores, probably doesn't fit into the human family tree the way we thought.