Sentences with phrase «phyla about»
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Similarly, when Intelligent Design asserts that God planted many new phyla on the earth during the Cambrian period, «nothing is thus added to our knowledge» about the mechanism whereby such momentous changes occurred.
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Biologists do not agree about the mechanism of the continual disappearance of phyla in the course of geological time, a process almost as mysterious as that of their formation; but the reality of the phenomenon is indisputable.
Jellyfish, polyps and the like belong to a phylum called Cnidaria, one of about 30 major groups that make up the animal kingdom.
According to Strausfeld, confirmation of this shared ground pattern in the vertebrate hippocampus would suggest that it originated from a very ancient common ancestor likely to have lived about 600 million years ago just before the Cambrian explosion, a relatively short period when most major animal phyla emerged.
What about all those hierarchical ranks in the Linnaean system, like phylum and family?
«As an example of the potential impact of our finding, you can think about the phyla Cnidaria, which contains all of the world's anemones, corals, and jellyfish,» said senior author Mercer R. Brugler, a research associate in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an assistant professor at NYC College of Technology, CUNY.
But how about discovering a new phylum?
Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR): Branch of bacteria announced only in 2015; represents about half of the domain's diversity — and a third of the diversity of life on Earth.
Finally, they conjecture that the basal animal phyla (Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora) diverged between about 1200 and 1500 million years ago.
The fossil record suggests complex multicellular life emerged about 600 million years ago in a relatively short period termed the «Cambrian explosion,» during which most major animal phyla appeared.
They certainly aren't herps; in fact, they are about as distantly related as phyla come.
Lasting for about the next 20 — 25 million years, it resulted in the divergence of most modern metazoan phyla.