Sentences with phrase «one's closest kin»

A new study found that female baboons that had the most stable relationships with other females weren't always the highest up in the dominance hierarchy or the ones with close kin around — but they were the nicest.

The film's closest kin in the world of CG talking animal «toons may be the inventive western Rango, whose throwback noir vibes it slightly echoes.

Fathers bring home extra calories — including meat, honey, and plant foods — and their contributions may be crucial if the mother lacks the help of other close kin (Marlowe 2005).

Because Neandertals are much closer kin to us than are chimpanzees, which diverged from the human lineage 5 to 7 million years ago, matching Neandertal DNA against our own has the potential to reveal genetic changes that help define who we are.

The new study undercuts a long - standing idea that Stone Age hunter - gatherers clustered among close kin, with men forming alliances and guarding home territories against competing groups, much as chimpanzees now do.

Jupiter's two biggest moons — apparently close kin — are in fact quite different inside.

So you cooperate with close kin because it helps get some of your shared genetic heritage into future generations.

Although chimps and humans are indeed closest kin, 15 % of the human genome more closely matches the gorilla's.

But mammoths were apparently even closer kin to Asian elephants, according to a smaller study of 17,000 mitochondrial basepairs, coauthored by ancient DNA pioneer Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and published online today in Nature.

It's also close kin to what Ronald Reagan and Bill Bennett proposed for Title I back in the late 1980's.)

On paper, the GTS edges closer to the former, but behind the wheel it seems closer kin to the latter's rabid, high - revving, tremendously engaging nature.

In the desert and delta of SheyKhala, where the upcoming novel Sand of Bone takes place, festivals mark the turning of seasons primarily through focus on close kin, neighbors, and the greater community.

Scientists have found a strong link between inbreeding — mating with first cousins and other close kin — and whether a small, isolated butterfly population went extinct.

Boaz, who turns out to be close kin to Naomi's deceased husband, is kind to Ruth and she gleans there for the whole harvest.

We can now differentiate religious humanism from the variety of Christian theism that is its closest kin.

As the covenant religions they are, Judaism and Christianity are close kin.

Close kin and a similar shape to the ever popular Fatali Pepper.

Because many species of small - bodied theropods unearthed since the 1990s had been feathered, many researchers suggested that larger species of tyrannosaurs and their close kin could have feathers, as well, he notes.

Goatfish collaborate with their own species, though probably not their close kin, Bshary's team has reported.

A study of house finches has demonstrated that in just 30 years, finches newly settled in Montana and Alabama begin to act quite different from each other, despite being close kin.

The nuclear DNA suggested that Neandertals and Denisovans were each other's closest kin and that their lineage split from ours more than 600,000 years ago.

Evoked by a new analysis of a fossil tooth of the long - extinct animal, called Diprotodon, the scenario would be the only known seasonal mass migration among marsupials and their close kin.

Polypterus, today found only in Africa, and its close kin have generally been considered some of the most primitive ray - finned fishes alive, thanks in part to skeletal features that resemble those on some ancient fish.

But how does our closest kin in the animal kingdom handle social unrest?

Calvapilosa wasn't the oldest creature in its primitive lineage, the researchers note, but it is the best known because fossils of its closest kin have been extremely fragmentary.

They only looked at species that belonged to the three major groups of birds alive today: Palaeognathae (ostriches and their close relatives), Galloanseres (waterfowl, pheasants, and their close kin), and Neoaves (all other birds).

In previous work, Gagné had argued that J2126 belonged with a different group of stars, but he says that the new observations have convinced him that TYC 9486 is its closest kin.

According to a new analysis of a fossil tooth of the long - extinct animal, called Diprotodon, the scenario would be the only known seasonal mass migration among marsupials and their close kin.

So McGovern settled for a canned concentrate of muscat grapes, considered to be the closest kin genetically to wild Eurasian grapes.

Much of biology rests on information gleaned from one organism and hypothesized to be true for its close kin.

The process of revising textbooks — and reminding old - guard researchers of the change — takes time, which is why you may still see hominid referring to humans and our closest kin.

Lungfish are close kin to the ancestors of terrestrial animals, so the researchers say the study shows that the ability to stroll along a surface evolved even before creatures moved from sea to dry land.

LIFE STORIES DNA samples of microbes discovered near hydrothermal vents like this one in the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge may be the closest kin yet known to complex life.

But it's just the opposite for the young daughters: Their closest kin are in the immediate pod.

At root, we define ourselves with reference to our families and closest kin and work outward from there.

And while 1983's Christine, based on Stephen King's contemporaneous novel, was closer kin to and may even have been inspired by The Car, it was a character study of an awkward teenager making friends with an angry Plymouth Fury that wondered which partner was really the evil one.

Especially if their approach is focused on high expectations for behavior, which is close kin to high expectations for student work and effort.

Today serendipity is regarded as close kin to creativity — the mysterious means by which new ideas enter the world.

Hunting, because it provided necessary food for the hunter and his close kin, was more an enjoyable form of work than recreation.

If the dog or its close kin are bred, avoid mates who have PHPV / PTVL or have a family history of it.

People will hide money and jewelry from their closest kin.

Some suggest this is an example of interspecies altruism, with the humpbacks coming to the aid of their not - so - close kin.

In fact, its Warcraft III cartoon - like look makes it closer kin to the animated version of the books produced in the 70s than the Peter Jackson films.

Now, Nintendo is asking those same gamers to instead team up with their closest kin — to show they can take on the rest of the country.