Sentences with phrase «single ancestral lineage»
Today many scientists hope for biological categories that consist of a single ancestral lineage and all its evolutionary descendants.
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They believe this finding points to a single ancestral pattern, from which the field and bush - cricket lineages went on to diverge.
These similarities raise the question of whether they evolved independently in different lineages by convergent evolution, or evolved from a single ancestral prototype.