Sentences with phrase «immediate ancestor»

In opening his museum in 1921, Phillips sought to establish a collection that included these «immediate ancestors of the modern art movement» — a tactic that was followed by the founders of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, inaugurated in 1929.

A new study credits the advent of simple stone tools to slice meat and pound root vegetables, which could have dramatically reduced the time and force needed to chew, thus allowing our more immediate ancestors to evolve the physical features required for speech.

Even if we grant that a clone, reared in different circumstances than its immediate ancestor, might turn out to be quite a different person in some respects, the point of that person's existence would be grounded in our will and desire.

Joseph's immediate ancestors were mechanics — builders, carpenters, masons, and smiths.

Our immediate ancestors perhaps remembered them instead as elves, dwarves, giants, goblins, and even (maybe) mermen.

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What Prothero is mad at is that his immediate ancestors where Roman Catholics in Boston and when Prothero realized that novenas and holy water and beeswax candle were a hoax he got made at God.

But let me caution him against any conception of novelty that is based on ignorance of what our immediate ancestors have been up to.

This passage admits of both monogenetic and polygenetic interpretations, since it is unclear whether the «humanoid population» is to be regarded as the first humans, or the immediate ancestors of the first humans.

To understand how influential such views have been, one need only to read the «Pharisees» article in the classic Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, which describes Pharisaism as «the immediate ancestor of rabbinical (or normative) Judaism, the largely arid religion of the Jews after the fall of Jerusalem.»

Unlike their immediate ancestors, who invaded India, and who were too busy consolidating their empire to pay much attention to cuisine, Akbar and Shehjehan recruited the best chefs in northern India, and encouraged them to create dishes that carried the influence of the ingredients of central Asia and India.

Although some researchers once thought they were our immediate ancestors in Europe, most now agree that Neandertals and modern humans most likely shared a common ancestor within the last 500,000 years, possibly in Africa.

afarensis had forelimbs that were ape - like, including long, curved fingers used to forage daily in the arboreal canopy, and that its immediate ancestors must have knuckle - walked.

For more than a decade, many researchers have assumed that teleosts» dizzying array of body types evolved because their immediate ancestor somehow duplicated its entire genome, leaving whole sets of genes free to take on other functions.

Although scientists generally agree that eukaryotes can trace their ancestry to a merger between archaea and bacteria, there's been considerable disagreement about what the first eukaryote and its immediate ancestors must have looked like.

Instead, they were tweaks in the activity of existing genes that we shared with our immediate ancestors.

Short and small - brained, even compared with classic Homo erectus, the Dmanisi people or their immediate ancestors emerged from Africa and migrated thousands of kilometers into Asia.

Very recently, scientists have been able to detect pigment - containing granules, called melanosomes, in some very early bird fossils, as well as in their immediate ancestors, the dinosaurs.

The Atapuerca team suggests that the bones be reclassified as a new, still unnamed species that was the immediate ancestor of Neandertals, but not modern humans.

The study contributes to a long - running academic debate about why other hominins, including our immediate ancestors, had gigantic brow ridges while anatomically modern humans evolved flatter foreheads.

One American palaeoanthropologist thinks the answer lies in the stay - at - home tendencies of our immediate ancestors who were beginning to exercise brain over brawn.

Mammals and their immediate ancestors from the Jurassic period (201 - 145 million years ago) developed new characteristics — such as better hearing and teeth capable of precise chewing.

In this model, modern humans evolved in Africa, but their immediate ancestor originated in the Middle East.

We propose that conversion of the large browridges of our immediate ancestors to a more vertical frontal bone in modern humans allowed highly mobile eyebrows to display subtle affiliative emotions.

The ACD's immediate ancestor was the Hall's heeler, a dog developed from a cross of the dingo and the smooth - coated Scottish collie.

The immediate ancestors of the APBT were Irish and English pit fighting dogs imported to the States in the mid-19th century.

Most authorities agree that the English Toy Spaniel or its immediate ancestors (probably the Japanese Chin and the Pekingese) came to Europe from Japan in the early part of the 16th century, when exotic lapdogs were extremely popular gifts among royalty.

A specific reference would be Piet Mondrian, whose Composition in Brown and Gray (1913 - 14) or Composition in Line (Black and White)(1916 - 17) derived from a geometric reduction of landscape would seem to be immediate ancestors.