Sentences with phrase «nearest animal relative»
This incongruous and oddly poignant coupling of ape, man's nearest animal relative, and fish, his primordial ancestor, expresses both opposition and symbiosis, and both a beginning and an end.
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Animals that at any other time of year might stay away from each other, or even prey on one another, will live in relative peace and safety near the water hole.
By comparing ancient and modern DNA from a domesticated animal as well as its nearest wild relatives, researchers can identify when specific genetic mutations associated with domestication arose.
Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
«They were consuming a much broader range of animals than our nearest living relatives do today.»
Take appropriate care with near relatives of affected animals and cease breeding them if they frequently produce the disease.
Dogs are den animals, since their nearest wild relatives — wolves — live in small, dark, enclosed spaces dug into the ground.
The principal dataset we use is the temporal variation of the oxygen isotope ratio (δ18O relative to δ16O; figure 1a right - hand scale) in the shells of deep - ocean - dwelling microscopic shelled animals (foraminifera) in a near - global compilation of ocean sediment cores [4].
-- Many species of both plants and animals existed several hundred kilometers north of where their nearest relatives exist today.
Musk's relative silence about Neuralink — and Mark Zuckerberg's near - silence about Facebook's brain - computer interface project, for that matter — may have something to do with the fact that an important part of developing neural implants is testing them on animals.