Sentences with phrase «same common ancestor»

In the West, the «space marine» interpretation is obviously the most popular, while Japan adopted the mecha aspects of the novel's powered armor as their own, but it has only been recently that we've started to see the two different genres, which share the same common ancestor, sharing ideas.

This group is a category of solidly built, large dog breeds that all descend from the same common ancestor, the large shepherd dog known as a Molossus.

Sigh, we did not come from monkeys, we share the same common ancestor.

Not exact matches

The same evidence was found in another family of proteins, the cytochromes c, and this made it possible to conclude that the common ancestor of yeast, plants, and vertebrates lived about 1.2 billion years ago.

In much the same way you may have a great aunt 3 times removed... but that doesn't mean you're her son or daughter... you both have a common ancestor... get it.

The same method that has helped us understand that hurricanes are not god's wrath has helped us understand that the universe was not created in seven days and that all life on earth was not created, but evolved from a common ancestor.

Remarkably, two of the same genetic changes seen in stickleback SWS2 also distinguish SWS2A (red - shifted) and SWS2B (blue - shifted) of these fish species, with whom they last shared a common ancestor many million years ago.

And this ultimately supports the hypothesis that fertility signals, which eventually evolved to become queen pheromones that regulate reproduction, have remained the same since the last common solitary ancestor of all social insects, which lived approximately 145 million years ago,» says Wenseleers.

This suggests that the lineages of the three most recent outbreaks all diverged from a common ancestor at roughly the same time, around 2004 (Fig. 2C and Fig. 3A), which supports the hypothesis that each outbreak represents an independent zoonotic event from the same genetically diverse viral population in its natural reservoir.

Thus, the morphological similarities that led to their classification into the same clade are not the result of descending from a common ancestor, but reflect adaptations to related environments (convergent evolution).

The relationships between the various cancerous cells from a single person can be plotted out in much the same way as evolutionary biologists plot relationships between species: by drawing phylogenetic trees, branching diagrams that trace «descendants» back to a common ancestor.

«Common genetic ancestors lived during roughly same time period.»

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

«Why do you see the same traits, such as the camera - lens eye or wings, in animals that are so different and have no common ancestor with that trait?»

«Octopuses and mammals do not share a recent common ancestor but have independently come up with the same solution to a common problem,» Thompson says.

The same process of relentless evolutionary selection has shaped both species — our last common ancestor was a mere 75 million years ago.

The researchers analyzed a skull of Panderichthys — an ancient fish that evolved at about the same time as tetrapods (early four - legged land - dwellers) from a common ancestor.

The brains of humans and dogs light up in the same place in response to vocal sounds, suggesting these processing areas are inherited from a common ancestor

In a separate study, a team at the University of Reading in England reviewed cognates (similar sounding words in different languages for the same object or meaning, such as «water» and the German «wasser») to determine how all Indo - European tongues progressed from a common ancestor that existed between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.

People with recent ancestors in common will have many of the same mutations.

So Darwin concluded that the common ancestors of all living humans had the same set of basic emotions, with corresponding facial expressions as part of our genetic inheritance.

Perhaps a larger implication is that the ability to learn new words for the same object may extend way beyond humans, even back 6 million years to the last common ancestor of humans and apes before they went their separate ways.

Humans and chimps diverged from their common ancestor around the same time, according to much evolutionary evidence.

And then at the same time, when they were looking at the pelvis, and this caused a big stir at the meeting, so there's been this idea that Lucy's species, you know, the changes that you get in the pelvis from the last common ancestor of humans and chimps were to, sort of, make us good at upright walking; and then further changes to the pelvis that you see in the evolution of our genus which will accommodate babies with larger brains.

Genes that perform the same role in human cells and in bacterial cells, say, may have a recognizably similar spelling of their DNA letters, reflecting the genes» descent from a common ancestor.

The genes in humans and mice are essentially the same genes — they were inherited from a common mammalian ancestor millions of years ago.

Results: Phylogenetic analysis of 77 K. pneumoniae (48 clinical and 29 non-clinical isolates) demonstrated that the two groups were intermixed throughout the tree and in some cases resided in the same clade, suggesting recent divergence from a common ancestor.

Breeding with too many of the exact same ancestors» allows those genes, the good and the bad, to be much too common within our breed.