Sentences with phrase «highest branch of the tree»

The three figures are coming together in the shape of a tree, which represents growth, whilst the tallest figure reaches upwards, towards a star, which is above and beyond the highest branch of the tree.

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«Global biodiversity catastrophes are not about death but about the pruning of evolutionary branches on the tree of life at a rate much higher than the sprouting of new shoots,» added co-author Ivo Duijnstee, an adjunct assistant professor of integrative biology.

When it comes to languages, the Pama - Nyungan tree «gives us the first and only hypothesis of the higher - level branching of the Pama - Nyungan family,» says Harold Koch, a historical linguist at ANU who was not involved in the Nature study, although he was Bowern's undergraduate adviser.

Imagine you're a red - footed booby napping on a not - quite - high - enough branch of a tree.

These snakes slither up trees before launching themselves from branches high in the canopy, undulating their bodies from side to side as they glide elegantly — at speeds of about 10 metres per second — to their destination.

(A) Average BS across all branches of species trees from varying input data as in Fig. 2, ordered left to right from lowest to highest values.

Although this analysis is limited to specific taxa, it suggests higher ILS near the deepest branches of Afroaves involving the owl, consistent with the branch length, gene tree, and indel findings.

The branch lengths of the high - variance exon tree showed a strong positive correlation with GC content and a negative correlation with the average body mass of species, seen at a much lesser magnitude in the low - variance exon tree (Fig. 6, A to D).

The percentage of gene tree conflict was successively higher for the shorter and deeper branches of the TENT (Fig. 3A), particularly those with < 100 % BS (e.g., branches R, U, and Z in Fig. 3, A and C).

According to Loy, Ötzi's long, lightweight arrows indicate that he was a specialist hunter of ibex, long - horned goats that live high above the tree line; such arrows would not have worked well in the forest, where they would readily have become tangled in the branches of trees.

Most creatures need a good sense of balance — especially tree - dwellers that swing among high branches.

Many of the deepest branches in Woese's tree, those that join nearest to the three - way junction of the kingdoms, turned out to belong to organisms that live at high temperatures, as in the fuming springs in Yellowstone Park or the volcanic vents that gash the ocean floor.

Mud's charisma lies in the wide eyes of his beholders, a couple of 14 - year - olds who come upon him hiding out from the law and other pursuers on a little island in the Mississippi River; his literal hideout is an abandoned boat nestled high in the branches of a tree, where it was deposited by a flood.

It involved rolling off a thick tree branch high above the ground and hanging on for dear life, though there was no risk of falling because she was safely harnessed to the branch.

There is no need to document each and every hazard that exists, but you should think about the likelihood and effects of, ice, snow, excessive water and high winds, and the effect of these, e.g. tree and branch falls, excessive leaf fall in walkways and damage to buildings.

I attended high school up in the mountains, and the father of one of my classmates drove over a tree branch while collecting wood in his pickup.

I'd listen to the wood - pigeon's wings whack through the middle branches of an ivy - clad beech tree and the starlings on the wires overhead, and the seagulls and swifts much higher still.

The untended woods behind the apple trees were already being absorbed by night; the childish disk of the sun was settling into the highest of the branches where it created the illusion that the treetops were burning up — furiously but silently.

Both were too intent upon their work to glance out from this high vantage at their panoramic view of the soft spring day: the shy sunlight; the irregular outlines of the two nearby parks, lying serene within the smoke and stone of the city; the new leaves upon the trees, making their innocent green way into life, on branches still so skinny that they quivered like the legs of a foal.

The ruins themselves are fun for an hour or two of exploring; Seeing what plants and animals you can spot, like these stingless bees or this dramatic tree growing out of the ruins with a bird high up in it's branches.

Zipping between high beams and tree branches in this game is a blast, from the rush of speed you feel as Spencer dips into the arc of his swing, to the way he floats in midair just long enough for you to line up your next shot.

You'll use the touchscreen to interact with Luigi's sleeping face to control some of these special sequences (e.g. pulling on his moustache to stretch the branches of palm trees to launch Mario to higher ground).

A lone figure walking beside an indigo swimming pool; a boat passing before the entrance of a cave as a great black bird swoops by; a girl dressed in white, clambering high in the branches of a vast tree on a starlit night: these are some of the strange and poetic recent subjects of the painter Peter Doig, the subject of a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer.

Wearing a fraying navy blazer and his signature sky - blue - tinted glasses, Schnabel, 66, stepped into the neoclassical colonnade for a side view of Rodin's «Thinker» in relation to his own 17 - foot - high plaster sculptures «Helen of Troy» and «Balzac,» which has a tough - to - position tree branch sprouting from its head.

Made in collaboration with USF Graphicstudio, Vertigo is comprised of layers of precision - cut, highly polished metal, woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer - not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch.

Featured among the large - scale works is Vertigo (sotto en su) from 2007, comprised of layers of precision - cut, highly polished metal woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer, not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch.

found himself in a walled garden on the top of a high mountain, and in the middle of it a tree with great birds on the branches, and fruit out of which, if you held a fruit to your ear, came the sound of fighting, 2012, Video projection with sound, 36 min

The recurring framing of the tree's upper portion, with neither the main trunk nor the end of the highest branches visible, may be (practically speaking) impossible from a human point of view, but it is also, as I see it, absolutely integral to the artist's intentions.

In this way, he combines the realms of craft and high art, contrasts soft materials with rough tree branches, and ultimately examines the structure of painting — color and composition — through sculptural form.

The projection slides around the various branches of the tree — it is a little more static than high - end PPT, without the ability to embed applications, video and sound.

Do you still honour the tradition of having a tree, but can't stand the hassle of bringing a forest indoors and slaving away for hours on a stepladder reaching those high branches?

It should be at least 10 inches high, but not too much higher than the bottom branches of the tree.

This idea from Country Living instructs you to first find an arrangement of pumpkins that works for your particular shelf — the lower shelves can have bigger single pumpkins to represent the tree trunk, while the higher shelves can have two or more pumpkins as the illustrated tree branches out.