Courtesy of the DOE Joint Genome Institute, here is a photo tour of what life is like for these scientists as they travel the world, a trip which resulted in 29
new branches on the tree of life.
Not just
a new branch on the tree, but a new tree itself.
Not exact matches
Another
branch on the
new monastic family
tree is the Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco.
He used the analogy of white oak
trees, which hold
on to their leaves through the winter and shed the vestige of their former life only when spring arrives and
new life flows through the
branches.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that this is where you get roses and take digital photos of the
new branch on your family
tree.
«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.
«This is a major
new division in the family
tree of exoplanets, somewhat analogous to the discovery that mammals and lizards are separate
branches on the
tree of life,» Fulton said.
As an arbuscule is formed,
new plant and fungal membrane must be generated, like the bark
on the extending
branches of a growing
tree.
In fact, he awaits a
new, technologically driven stage of evolution that will qualify cyborgs for a
branch on the human family
tree.
The triceratops» cousin is not only a
new species; it's a whole
new branch on the dinosaur family
tree.
Researchers have thus created a
new branch on the animal family
tree to represent this novel class, which they are calling Micrognathia.
The
new definition is the equivalent of pointing to the tips of two twigs
on the
tree of life, tracing the
branches back to where they meet, and describing the taxonomic group as everything in between.
It took more than two years to strip the stone from the whale skull, and when he did, «there before me was what looked like an entirely
new branch on the evolutionary
tree of whales.»
Scientists once thought that every type of organism occupied a distinct
branch on the
tree of life;
new species evolved as their genomes slowly mutated or recombined through sex.
A 2014 review noted five proposals for designating the most ancient stretch of supergroup
branches, the bit that goes lowest
on the
new tree.
«Rather than growing a
new branch on the [genetic]
tree, you have two
branches growing together,» he said.
Based
on this
new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human
branch of the
tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.
Finding a
new species of platypus was a surprise: Previously, researchers thought that the creatures had a single
branch on their family
tree, with no more than one distinct species alive at any time.
A statistician dove deep into human DNA and may have uncovered a possible
new branch on the old family
tree.
These newly identified organisms might have a big impact
on our understanding of the deeper
branches of the
tree of life giving us
new hints about the emergence of the eukaryotic cell.
New buds appear on branches, new rings form in the forest trees, and the divine energy of creation is heralded by each crocus, blue jay & bree
New buds appear
on branches,
new rings form in the forest trees, and the divine energy of creation is heralded by each crocus, blue jay & bree
new rings form in the forest
trees, and the divine energy of creation is heralded by each crocus, blue jay & breeze.
The arrival of a
new branch in this family
tree spurns memories of the lost matriarch of this clan, Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), but it also sends Jonah off
on his own unique path.
Preface It was one of those days in May when the
trees of
New York no longer carried the promise of green buds
on its
branches, but the beginning of summer leaves instead.
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.
Constructed from weathered sections of dead
trees that have been brought down from the mountains of Southern China and bolted together in the form of a whole, healthy
tree with spreading branches, Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably l
tree with spreading
branches,
Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably l
Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment
on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something
new and vital from what is irrevocably lost.
In his installation The Department of Marine Animal Identification of the City of
New York, the artist recreated a biologist's office, including a cabinet full of labeled jars, a desk, and even a lab coat hanging
on a door, and in The Library for the Birds of Antwerp, the artist exhibits a leafless
tree, its
branches containing African Finches, bird cages, traps, and other objects.
New works
on view in LIGHTENING consist of a series of biomorphic alabaster sculptures with incandescent light bulbs inserted, and sculptures made of
tree branches that are composed with the precision of a master wood - worker.
For example, in the book that accompanied her painting Aqueous Flesh (2009), Pundyk reveals that her reference for the human figure was clipped from a newspaper,
tree branches from a photo taken out of her family - in - law's
New York apartment, facial features from a candid photo of a friend
on vacation in Paris, and an abstracted version of two women sourced from an image in a waiting room magazine.
In addition to small, deft, loosely painted pictures of birds
on tree branches and wires and a landscape with Goldilocks and the Three Bears in the distance, Mr. Dawson's ninth
New York solo features three big paintings made with a generous, brushy touch
on toothy canvas and depicting scenes from the story of Jonah and the Whale....
Her exhibition in Napoli will present sculptures and drawings related to poetry, also
on view will be the large - scale sculpture «Revelation of a
Tree», which casts branches as moving antennas, the new energy point of the t
Tree», which casts
branches as moving antennas, the
new energy point of the
treetree.
While
trees and animals are a recurrent theme in the artist's oeuvre, the works depicting birds
on branches represent a
new departure in terms of movement and composition, with the latter expanding to fill, and even exceed, the picture plane.
So left wing bias is the
new right wing conservatism and the old right wing conservatism is now up in a
tree somewhere swinging in the
branches throwing bananas and screeching «left wing bias» at ordinary sensible civilised normal people
on the ground with sufficient intelligence to work it out for themselves.
Sitting
on a Loowatt loo feels no different to sitting
on my toilet at home in
New York City — except when I look up there's no roof, just a man standing in a mango
tree, shaking the
branches to release the fruit.
I love that pretty much each day
new flowers are blooming and more
branches are blossoming
on the
trees.
A kaleidoscope of coloured lights constantly illuminate the garden, each dramatic hue picking out something
new for your eye to catch: lichen - covered
trees, their
branches casting violent shadows
on the brick roof and walls; vast recumbent forms — are they bodies?