Sentences with phrase «separate branch of the tree»

Another surprise was that all the other horses were on a separate branch of the tree, suggesting they were not Botai descendents as many have long thought.

Not exact matches

Rather, they see liberal Protestantism and Mariology as separate branches of the same heretical tree.

«This is a major new division in the family tree of exoplanets, somewhat analogous to the discovery that mammals and lizards are separate branches on the tree of life,» Fulton said.

In the 1970s, the acclaimed biologist Carl Woese discovered a completely new group of microorganisms, the Archaea, and showed that these represented a separate branch in the Tree of Life — a finding that stunned the scientific community at the time.

Nevertheless, the eukaryotic stem on the phylogenetic tree of life spawns many branches before one gets to the split that separates the ancestors of plants from the ancestors of animals, which seems to have happened more than a billion years ago.

In the past, each layer of «branches» in the growing molecular «tree» has had to be added in a separate chemical reaction.

This episode simultaneously taxed my visual / spatial system for three separate tasks: the intense spatial planning of where the heavy tree branches were to be cut, and would fall; the meaningful interpretation of the incoming barrage of sensory input; and the essential need to keep my balance based primarily on the constantly moving visual input.

An analysis of its sequence provided strong evidence that Neanderthals lie on a separate branch of the human family tree and are not our direct ancestors.

Or did haramiyids occupy a separate, more ancestral branch at the base of the family tree, suggesting mammal diversification occurred much later?