Sentences with phrase «separate branches on the 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.
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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.