Sentences with phrase «from pygmy»

Forevolution is a real - time strategy game from Pygmy Studios in Osaka, Japan.

Everything from pygmy seahorses to 6 meter mantas.

Coral Garden has weird and wonderful creatures from pygmy seahorses to giant cuttlefish, banded seasnakes, all kinds of nudibranchs and colourful reef fish.

This group includes 11 species ranging in length from the pygmy right whale at 21 feet (6.4 m) to the largest whale, the blue whale at 100 feet (30.5 m).

The week began with a visit from some pygmy goats and tiny bantam chicks, which the Year -LSB-...]

The week began with a visit from some pygmy goats and tiny bantam chicks, which the Year 7 students were invited to hold and ask questions about.

What phenomenon enabled the demographic growth of Bantu farmers in Africa and led to their genetic differentiation from the Pygmy hunter - gatherer communities?

This farming people would then have gradually differentiated genetically from the pygmy hunter - gatherers communities living in forests.

Every head turned from the pygmy chimps to us, while I waited for the tour guide to announce, «And to the left, we have the nursing human toddler...»

Not exact matches

She limits her practice to lizards, ferrets, birds, turtles and assorted creatures, ranging from Chinese water dragons and Chinese pygmy hamsters to chinchillas and kinkajous.

So, all surviving humans (Pygmies, Aussies, Polynesians, Inuits, Persians, Koreans, et al.) are from the same «tree.»

In the 50's I played in the PeeWee league (one step up from «pygmy» league --- not kidding, that's what it was called); BUT we played better than Braves in the 3rd inning.

Diana and Dave run Pygmy Cloud from their east London studio.

Read about the Aka Pygmies from Central Africa (the international stars of paternal involvement), South Korea's national» Dads Club», the work done with rival Latino gangs in the «third world» streets of Los Angeles — while not forgetting the «best of British».

This fantastic collection of videos is so diverse that you can go from learning about pygmy seahorses to exploring the Indian railroad to exploring outer space.

It names as «Best Dads in the World» the Aka Pygmies, a hunter - gatherer tribe from northern Congo, in central Africa.

Origins and Genetic Diversity of Pygmy Hunter - Gatherers from Western Central Africa Current Biology, 19 (4), 312 - 318

In no short measure, these newcomers — predominantly young and willing to work — helped to propel the United States from geopolitical pygmy in the late 1700s to great power status by at least 1898.

With over 250 species inhabiting our planet, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know and more.

Turkalo stayed on, continuing her research aided by a staff of local pygmies and financial support from the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups.

Some suggested Flo was a diseased modern human, related to pygmies but suffering from a condition like microcephaly, which causes the brain and head to be pathologically small.

These include such sensational cases as the 1938 finding of a living coelacanth, a fish that was presumed to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs; the 1966 discovery of Australia's mountain pygmy possum, previously known only from bones found in a cave; and the 1951 rediscovery of the cahow, or Bermuda petrel, then thought to have been extinct since the 1620s.

At around 1 metre tall she is far shorter even than modern Pygmies, who range from 1.3 to 1.4 metres, and roughly the same size as the relatively primitive hominid Australopithecus.

Statistical analyses aimed at reconstructing how much an adult Archicebus would have weighed in life show that it was slightly smaller than the smallest living primates, which are pygmy mouse lemurs from Madagascar.

For example, the researchers found that pygmy populations from central Africa cluster genetically with eastern and southern African speakers of languages that rely heavily on clicking of the tongue.

In the study, geneticist Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues scanned the entire genomes of about 70 individuals from three pygmy groups in Cameroon, and another 60 from three neighboring Bantu groups (tall, thin, farming tribes with whom pygmies have intermarried for generations).

So she and postdoc Joseph Lachance, along with a multinational team, sequenced the DNA of three hunter - gatherer groups living in Africa today: the Hadza and Sandawe from Tanzania and the Pygmies from Cameroon, some of the most ancient lineages in the world.

Western Pygmies I love population genetics for its ability to peer back into human history through the medium of DNA's ATCGs.One of the stars of this discipline is Sarah Tishkoff, a standout in African genetics, someone who will readily haul a centrifuge into the bush in Cameroon.Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania is lead author on a paper published online July 26 in Cell that details whole - genome sequencing of five individuals each from three extant hunter - gatherer groups — the Pygmies of Cameroon as well as the Hadza and the Sandawe of Tanzania.

Final Decision (if proposed): Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, Alabama pearlshell, Choctaw bean, fuzzy pigtoe, narrow pigtoe, round ebonyshell, San Bernardino springsnail, southern kidneyshell, southern sandshell, tapered pigtoe, Three Forks springsnail, and 23 species from Oahu, Hawaii.

Listing Proposal: California golden trout, Lake Sammamish kokanee salmon, black - footed albatross, cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, western gull - billed tern, dusky tree vole, Alabama pearlshell, Choctaw bean, coquí llanero, fuzzy pigtoe, Mohave ground squirrel, Mojave fringe - toed lizard, narrow pigtoe, Oklahoma grass pink, Ozark chinquapin, round ebonyshell, San Bernardino springsnail, southern kidneyshell, southern sandshell, tapered pigtoe, Tehachapi slender salamander, Three Forks springsnail, 23 species from Oahu.

Final Decision (if proposed): Mexican gray wolf, Miami blue butterfly, Gunnison sage grouse, Jemez Mountain salamander, Austin blind salamander, Georgetown salamander, spring pygmy sunfish, streaked horned lark, Florida semaphore cactus, Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle, Aboriginal prickly - apple, Acuna cactus, Brush prairie pocket gopher, Cape Sable thoroughwort, Diamond darter, Diamond Y spring snail, Diminutive amphipod, Fickeisen plains, Florida bonneted bat, Fluted kidneyshell, Gierisch mallow, Gonzales springsnail, grotto sculpin, Jollyville Plateau salamander, Lemmon's fleabane, lesser prairie chicken, Mardon skipper butterfly, Mt. Charleston blue butterfly, Neosho mucket, Olympia pocket gopher, Olympic pocket gopher, Phantom Lake cave snail, Phantom springsnail, rabbitsfoot, rayed bean, Roy Prairie pocket gopher, Salado salamander, sheepnose mussel, Shelton pocket gopher, slabside pearlymussel, snuffbox, spectaclecase pearly mussel, Tacoma pocket gopher, Taylor's checkerspot butterfly, Tenino pocket gopher, Umtanum desert buckwheat, Wekiu bug, White Bluffs bladderpod, Yelm pocket gopher, and 21 species from the Big Island (Hawaii) and 29 species from Maui (Hawaii).

To reconstruct modern human evolutionary history and identify loci that have shaped hunter - gatherer adaptation, we sequenced the whole genomes of five individuals in each of three different hunter - gatherer populations at > 60 × coverage: Pygmies from Cameroon and Khoesan - speaking Hadza and Sandawe from Tanzania.

No one would say that pygmies in the Congo are an incompatible species separate from Europeans solely due to their microbiome.

This was long before modern human's diaspora from Africa and even long before the evolutionary diversification of Pygmies in Central Africa and before the emergence of the hunters and gatherers of East Africa.

Eurasian Pygmy Owls are expressive birds - When excited, one will cock its tail, flicking it from side to side.

A little - seen 2005 movie directed by Régis Wargnier, Man to Man stars Joseph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas and Hugh Bonneville as 19th century anthropologists who kidnap a couple of pygmies from Africa and take them back to Scotland for research, initially believing them to be the missing link.

There's also a extensive still gallery, featuring myriad publicity shots of the film's characters; production stills, with shots of Darkness from the U.S. version's early scenes and material from the U.S. - used Pygmy scenes; and continuity Polaroids -LRB-!).

Although the Aetas» short stature, dark skin and curly hair has caused them to be compared to African pygmies, scholars believe they migrated, not from Africa, but from the Asian mainland about 30,000 years ago (possibly across the land bridge that is thought to have existed at the time), and developed their phenotypic traits in situ.

Pocket God, the popular iOS game in which users plot the lives and demise of mischievous pygmies, developed from game status to comic status in a relatively short time to become the first iOS game to have its own comic series.

Making his way in an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy rights advocate, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers.

Fight Club (1996) created a mythology from the inner lives of alienated Gen X-ers, and Pygmy (2009) daringly tweaked fears of terrorism and school shootings, heedless of our jangled nerves.

The story, which unfolds in a series of dispatches from a 13 - year - old agent dubbed «Pygmy,» leaps enthusiastically over the line of good taste but lands squarely on its feet.

But the pygmies of Pocket God aren't the only characters going from app to comics.

In Borneo, there's an impressive eco-tourism industry where you can climb Mt. Kinabalu, view pygmy elephants in the wild, and watch the human - like proboscis monkeys swinging from vines in the jungle as you head down the river in a small boat.

The retirement enclaves of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia offer not only well - appointed villas with modern kitchens and private swimming pools — some are only a short drive away from wild pygmy elephants, monkeys swinging in the trees, and the world's most spectacular beaches.

In 7 - Footers In A Sea Of Pygmies: Why Concentrating On Just The Averages Obscures True Market Insights, Lonnie and Jacob from Farnam Street Investments have a great post on the current lack of dispersion in stock valuations.

Together with the San Diego Humane Society and its volunteer team, Animal Rescue Reserves, the Department of Animal Services was instrumental in transporting 850 evacuated horses to the Del Mar Fairgrounds and rescuing various animals from the fire, including two pygmy goats, nine rabbits, a parrot, chicken and pig.

Two of the premier objects in the park's museum collection are the original third - order Fresnel lens from the Anacapa lighthouse and the nearly - complete pygmy mammoth skeleton from Santa Rosa Island.

[2] Fossils of pygmy mammoths from this Late Pleistocene period 13,000 years ago have been found on the other three northern islands and it is reasonable to assume pygmy mammoths were also present on Anacapa.

We can see everything from sharks, pelagics, mantas and dolphins to pygmy seahorses, blue ringed octopus and frogfish but the most impressive with komodo diving is the amount of fish on the dive sights and the massive amount of healthy corals