Sentences with phrase «modern descendants»

The phrase "modern descendants" refers to the living individuals or groups who are directly related to someone or something from the past. They carry the bloodline or heritage of those who came before them. Full definition
This relative lack of modern diversity stands out in stark contrast to that of their close relatives, the dinosaurs, whose modern descendants, the birds, have about 10,000 species around today!
The basic political premise of techno - politics is that the classic question regarding competing claims to rule has been decisively answered: instead of Plato's philosopher king we get its emasculated modern descendant, the rational bureaucrat.
Dr David Poznik, from Stanford University, California, first author on the paper, said: «We identified more than 60,000 positions where one DNA letter was replaced by another in a man with modern descendants, and we discovered thousands of more complex DNA variants.
By contrast, saber - toothed cats (Smilodon fatalis), a species without close modern descendants, are thought to have ambushed large prey using powerful back and forelimb muscles to pull down and position the animals for killing bites.
Another excerpt from some recent work: The basic political premise of techno - politics is that the classic question regarding competing claims to rule has been decisively answered: instead of Plato's philosopher king we get its emasculated modern descendant, the rational bureaucrat.
Experts thought these beasts laid eggs, much like their modern descendants.
Fossils of primitive birds and eggs from the Mesozoic era place them midway between their dinosaur ancestors and their modern descendants, with eggs between those of pre-avian dinosaurs and modern birds in term of size and shape.
The Mongolian leader left a strong footprint in the Y chromosomes of his modern descendants, but he was not the only one
The mitochondrial DNA of the Goyet and Russian dogs belongs to a maternal lineage that didn't leave any modern descendants, researchers reported in Science in 2013.
This specimen provides the first evidence that early sharks evolved a complex, predatory jaw - and - tooth structure like that of their modern descendants.
Heckenberger discovered the Xingu settlements when the chief of the Kuikuro — the modern descendants of the Xingu basin people — showed him the remains of one of the towns.
If I simply took the basic ingredients (or their modern descendants, anyway), threw them into a jar, and let them rot for a while, wouldn't that be authentic enough?
Most ancient fossils display a suite of «primitive» features, consistent with their early evolution and allowing them to be distinguished from their modern descendants.
Despite their early critical role in the evolution of life on Earth, the cladoxylopsids do not have any modern descendants.
In a report appearing in the February issue of Geology, James W. Hagadorn of the California Institute of Technology and colleagues conclude that the fossilized jellyfish, which are similar in size to their modern descendants but much bigger than previously uncovered specimens from the same time, were some of the largest and most important predators during the Cambrian period.
Now their modern descendants, the cobweb spiders, dangle sticky threads below, wait until insects walk by and get snagged, and reel their unlucky victims in.
The modern descendant of this rare dog breed is much larger and stronger than the original and resembles the American Pit Bull Terrier.

Phrases with «modern descendants»

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