Sentences with phrase «of our common ancestors include»

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I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

Ancient American dogs, including the Koster and Stilwell II animals, shared a common genetic ancestor, cell biologist Kelsey Witt Dillon of the University of California, Merced reported April 13 at the SAA meeting.

This evidence indicates that LB1 is not a modern human with an undiagnosed pathology or growth defect; rather, it represents a species descended from a hominin ancestor that branched off before the origin of the clade that includes modern humans, Neandertals, and their last common ancestor.

An analysis of DNA from 37 living orangutans, including two Tapanuli animals, indicated that Tapanuli and Sumatran orangutans diverged from a common ancestor around 3.4 million years ago.

By analyzing the genomes of 28 bears — polar bears, including a roughly 120,000 - year - old specimen from Norway's Svalbard archipelago, as well as modern brown bears and black bears — the scientists in effect read back in time to a common ancestor at least four million years ago.

The results suggest that the last common ancestor of all modern birds — in other words, the species at the base of the evolutionary family tree that includes all living bird species — lived in West Gondwana, a landmass that included what are now fragments of South America and large portions of Antarctica, about 95 million years ago.

A 13 million - year - old skull from Kenya, described in August in Nature, hints at what a common ancestor of all living apes (including humans) looked like.

The last common ancestor of sharks and bony fishes probably didn't have gill arches arranged like those in modern sharks — which, in turn, suggests that the oldest known species of bony fishes can likely provide more information about the earliest jawed vertebrates (a group that today includes humans) than early chondrichthyans can, the researchers contend.

Because both new branches include carnivores and herbivores, Baron's team concludes that the common ancestor of all dinosaurs may have been omnivorous.

We also included the domestic donkey as an outgroup, which represents a sister lineage of modern horses and shares a most common recent ancestor with horses 4.0 — 4.5 Mya ago (9).

In the first model (Fig. 3B), the population including our ancient horses and their descendants first separated from common ancestors of domesticated horses and Przewalski's horses, and later admixed with the population ancestral to domesticated horses after it diverged from the Przewalski's horse population.

First, DEC results suggest that the most recent common ancestor of Simiiformes occupied a geographic range that included Asia and the New World, and that the ancestral range of this taxon was sundered in conjunction with the cladogenic separation of catarrhines and platyrrhines.

Though the exact origins of the breed are unknown, the Barbet is thought to be the common ancestor of many modern water dogs including the Poodle, the Portuguese Water Dog and the American Water Spaniel.

«Dogs» is a comprehensive, vivid account of the origin and evolution of canids — including wolves, foxes, coyotes, and wild dogs — from their common ancestors more than 40 million years ago.