Sentences with phrase «older evolutionary origins»

Now, a new study on lizards suggests that sleep states once thought to occur only in mammals and birds have much older evolutionary origins.

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The vast enlargement of the physical cosmos, the evolutionary origin of man, materialistic theories which endeavor to explain him, brutality of social life involving low conceptions of him, the innumerable masses of men such that old cynicisms gain new force,

The new study's lead author, Barbara Wallner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, paired these old, yet meticulously kept data with modern DNA sequencing techniques to investigate the origins of today's horse breeds.

A student named John Ostrom picked up where Brown left off, renaming the specimen and rejuvenating the century - old debate about the evolutionary origin of birds.

Steve: What exactly does somebody who is studying origins of life do that a regular old evolutionary biologist does not do when they are doing their research?

That older males and females may provide reproductive benefits to others may be intuitively obvious, but these are not necessary to explain the evolutionary origin of menopause.

January 4, 2017 280 million - year - old fossil reveals origins of chimaeroid fishes High - definition CT scans of the fossilized skull of a 280 million - year - old fish reveal the origin of chimaeras, a group of cartilaginous fish related to sharks, and allow scientists to firmly anchor them in evolutionary history.

As a 22 - year - old single woman I'm pretty much living in the thickest part of the modern hookup culture — perfecting the art of getting the right guy to Three new discoveries in a month rock our African origins The evolutionary story of modern humans just got more complicated