«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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
We then added the ancient individual as a
separate seventh population to the European
tree and evaluated the likelihood for this external
branch to merge anywhere
on the
tree.