Sentences with phrase «from ancestors»

Now a team of scientists have shown that it is in fact a fossil from an ancestor of all present - day land animals.

There is a reason behind this odd (and adorable) behaviour of theirs, and as it turns out, it is a trait inherited from their ancestors!

Cats evolved from ancestors that lived in the desert, which means that they don't have a high thirst drive.

Your cat is not all that different from its ancestor, the jungle cat.

This is a carry - over from their ancestors who would hide pain to avoid becoming prey in the wild.

The source of motivation that drives me comes from my ancestors.

A new species is separated from its ancestor species by multiple generations of small changes, not a single generation.

The theory goes that our systems haven't evolved that much from our ancestors so we should return to a simpler, less processed way of eating for improved health.

But that's more than modern wheat is removed from its ancestors.

Also, he seems to have believed in a form of ancestral memory, through which we gain some of the memories from our ancestors.

If humans inherited morality from our ancestors, though, what are we to make of religion?

With relatively few individuals, the species may have been more vulnerable to extinction from climate change or competition from our ancestors, the researchers say.

And it's due in part to an ancient genetic gift from their ancestors.

The book provides valuable lessons from our ancestors: eat traditional whole, nutrient dense foods including animals, plants and natural fats to heal and restore.

You charge alive far abroad from your ancestors and friends.

As a result of evolution theory, we have transmitted attributes from our ancestors.

An experienced breeder may be able to tell a great deal about a puppy from its ancestors and years of experience!

Dogs, being predators, come programmed to guard resources that are crucial to their survival as part of their behavioral inheritance from their ancestor, the wolf.

Many scientists agree that dogs don't require any carbohydrates at all, as their entire digestive system has evolved from ancestors that never sought out carbohydrates.

Using traditional techniques inherited from her ancestors, she crafts the lovely design by hand from sterling silver.

After all, «We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.»

In captivity, birds» diets and energy requirements are different from their ancestors in the wild.

That would mean it is descended from the ancestor of all primates, but is not itself the ancestor.

Liz's Food From Our Ancestors series are real treasures.

Somewhere along the line, the ancestor of dinosaurs diverged from the ancestor of crocodiles, a momentous split in the evolution of vertebrates that ultimately set the stage for the age of dinos.

In contrast, the two Neanderthals from European caves that were sequenced for this study — one from Croatia, another from Spain — both lack DNA derived from ancestors of modern humans.

Once the ancestors of humans split from the ancestor of bonobos and chimps more than 4 million years ago, the common ancestor of bonobos and chimps retained this diversity until their population completely split into two groups 1 million years ago.

And when the researchers plotted the mutation events on the primate family tree, it became even more obvious that the molecular grim reaper had been winnowing genes from our ancestors with particular zeal: Olfactory genes have been rendered useless about four times faster in the branch leading to humans compared to other primates.

The first genotypes able to perform complex functions differed from their non-performing parents by only one or two mutations, but differed from the ancestor by many mutations that were also crucial to the new functions.

If you wear clothing made from hemp — or from wool shed by carefree Andean llamas and gathered between 9 and 5 by indigenous folk in native garb who have dental coverage, get regular breaks, and harvest Earth's bounty using customs learned from their ancestors — you might be an eco-chump.

So when the lovely Liz Della Croce asked if I would want to take a peek at the newest edition to her Food From Our Ancestors series: The Ultimate Syrian Sunday Dinner I jumped at the chance.

It may sound like a lot of positive to have to put out there... But that's because we have a lot of negativity already hard - wired into our brain, thanks to the negativity bias we get from our ancestors who depended on it to, you know, not get eaten by lions and stuff.

New fossil dates show beasts arose from their ancestors in half the time researchers previously thought

Man, a species endowed with mind, or consciousness, or self - awareness — call this unique property by whatever name you choose — arose from ancestors not endowed with this property.

If, for example, a hunter - gatherer only ever allows the fastest male dogs to breed with the fastest female dogs, after many years of such selective breeding the resultant dogs would differ so much in body shape, leg length and, perhaps, lung capacity from their ancestor as to be considered a separate breed.

As it turns out, the mourning doves and other American doves represent a unique group of columbiformes (pigeons and doves), which came from Asia separately from the ancestors of the passenger pigeon and band - tailed pigeon.

There are thousands of people in Canada with legitimate claims of compensation for land that was taken away from their ancestors.

As silly as it may seem, many of the bizarre behaviors we see in our dogs are hard - wired leftovers from their ancestors of thousands of years ago, before they were domesticated.

They get specific about what ethnic group you come from, as opposed to just what country... I think it was his way of saying, «As an African - American, I know you're disconnected from your ancestors and your culture and your traditions,» Here's my way of welcoming you back.»»

His life is disrupted one day when the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) turns up at his door practically demanding he go on an adventure with him and a band of proud and eccentric dwarves who are on a quest to take back the land, and their treasure, once taken from their ancestors by the fearful dragon Smaug.

The Oaxacans have some of the strongest and oldest culture in the world, still speaking dialects that originated from their ancestors hundreds and hundreds of years prior to the arrival of the Spaniards.

Nevertheless, the eukaryotic stem on the phylogenetic tree of life spawns many branches before one gets to the split that separates the ancestors of plants from the ancestors of animals, which seems to have happened more than a billion years ago.

While it had long been known that the group originated from Asia, the variation in their genetic blueprint indicated they must have been isolated from their ancestors for an extended period of time before spreading throughout the Americas.

The finding fits with earlier studies that have found that although living Asians and Europeans have inherited 1 % to 3 % of their DNA from their ancestors» interbreeding with Neandertals, they are missing chunks of Neandertal DNA on their Y chromosomes.

It revealed that non-African people inherited almost 2 percent of Neanderthal genomes, while the Denisovan genome content in individuals of Melanesian ancestry is within 2 to 3 percent from ancestors.