Sentences with phrase «larger animal kingdom»

Not exact matches

This is because large chunks of our genome perform similar functions across the animal kingdom.

The beauty of being human is that, unlike much of the rest of the animal kingdom, we are endowed with opposable thumbs, large brains, and the ability to purchase on credit.

8:1 Ratio of the length of a barnacle's penis to the rest of its body, making it proportionally the largest phallus in the animal kingdom.

As far as absolute brain size goes, humans don't have the largest brains in the animal kingdom; that privilege goes to whales.

Whittaker crowned his tree of life with three kingdoms of primarily multicellular eukaryotes sorted in large part by nutritional style: plants (capturing light energy), fungi (absorbing nutrients by contact) and animals (ingesting their food).

For more than a century, scientists have debated the family tree of the arthropods, the largest and most diverse division of the animal kingdom.

They cite dozens of examples throughout the animal kingdom of where parasites are driving behavior of large mammals with the obvious theory being that you and I are probably being driven by parasites right now and we don't know it.

Whether it is a display of courage to impress a potential mate in the animal kingdom, or seeking to become stronger and larger than the average man, there is little doubt that much male behaviour is governed at a primal level by the evolutionary drive to impress females to increase the potential for mating opportunities and thereby perpetuate your genes.

In members of the animal kingdom, fish, reptiles, and non-human primates express and infer power through expansive postures, large body size, or the perception of large body size.

Insects, without question, make up the largest group of creatures in the animal kingdom.

He paints large, and he packs as much on a gallery wall as it will hold, as if to blow the entire animal kingdom to kingdom come.