Sentences with phrase «species on the branches»

You will also spot different bird species on the branches or flying over the rainforest.

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Every species is a branch on the tree of life.

With Man, on the other hand, owing to the grand psychological phenomenon of Reflection, the branches of his species follow an entirely different course.

Apes continued to develop on their branch, while various human species continued on another.

What's more, the two areas of evidence (genetic and fossil, each relying on millions of data points) exhibit the same pattern of branching between specific groups of species.

The triceratops» cousin is not only a new species; it's a whole new branch on the dinosaur family tree.

The tree includes major branches for slavemakers, species without slaves, and parasitic species that exploit foreign workers on a temporary basis.

On islands, scientists sometimes see a «sped - up» version of evolution — when animals are closed off from the rest of the world, in places where there are few or no predators or competitors, they are able to branch out into special adaptations, eventually forming new species.

This included a strongly supported clade (100 % BS on most branches) that comprised the three groups of vocal learners (parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds) and most of the nonpredatory core landbirds, a monophyletic clade of diurnal birds of prey and seriemas (albeit with low 40 % BS), and a monophyletic clade of all aquatic and semiaquatic species of Passerea and Columbea (also with low 20 % BS)(Fig. 4D).

In their study, Yang et al. mapped a genetic locus in the S. viridis genome that controls growth of sterile branches called bristles, which are produced on the grain - bearing inflorescences of some grass species.

Contrary to earlier studies, the analyses divided orb weavers, the many spider species that make the classic spiral webs and cobwebs, into two groupings and put them on very different branches of the tree.

(A) Cladogram of ExaML TENT avian species tree, annotated for nodes from Fig. 2 (letters), for branches with less than 100 % BS without and with (parentheses) third codon positions, for strong (> 75 % BS) intron gene tree incongruence and congruence, and for indel congruence on all branches (except the root).

Names on branches denote orders -LRB-- iformes) and English group terms (in parentheses); drawings are of the specific species sequenced (names in table S1 and fig.

Webless wandering species such as the hunting spider (Pisaura mirabilis) often depend on so - called draglines which hang, for example, from branches.

Like Clarke, Berger believes the labels on the tree of human evolution could be wrong because we haven't found all the species, or branches, that make up the tree.

Scientists once thought that every type of organism occupied a distinct branch on the tree of life; new species evolved as their genomes slowly mutated or recombined through sex.

With large amounts of data backing up each evolutionary branch on the turtle tree of life, scientists are able to compare their evolution not only across species, but also across each continent's corresponding fossil records.

So the researchers used statistical methods similar to those employed by biologists to trace species lineages back through the branching tree of evolution based only on modern DNA sequences.

«The green plants are one of the most diverse branches on the tree of life, with a half million species that range in size from planktonic unicells to redwood trees.

Focusing on the most evolutionarily unique and ancient species could allow us to save more branches of the tree of life, at the lowest cost and effort.

The fossils found so far suggest that A. deyiremeda came on the scene after Lucy's species and could even have branched off from it.

Finding a new species of platypus was a surprise: Previously, researchers thought that the creatures had a single branch on their family tree, with no more than one distinct species alive at any time.

Because they don't have any obvious bilateral symmetry — unlike most animals — the two Dendrogramma species must sit on one of the lowest branches in the animal evolutionary tree, occupied by the few animals that lack this symmetry.

With each new discovery, paleoanthropologists have to rewrite the origins of man's ancestors, adding on new branches and tracking when species split.

Neanderthals — let's call them brothers from another species of mother — are in the same big area of the tree (as are Denisovans), though they may be best described as being on a different branch.

Increasing storm impacts are also likely to cause fragile branching species (responsible for most structural complexity on reefs) to decline more rapidly than the proportion of massive corals, resulting in low structural complexity on impacted reefs.

On a tree of life, the outer, twiglike, branches represent species alive today.

Whitton also keeps all the larger birds out on java tree branches so customers can interact with them freely, while the smaller parrot species, such as conures and cockatiels, are kept in a petting bin up front.

To determine their effect on individual corals, the scientists exposed small branch clippings, otherwise known as «nubbins,» of two species — Stylophora pistillata and Pocillopora damicornis, both found in the Red Sea — to solutions of 6 different dispersants for a period of 24 hours and monitored their health for the ensuing week.

I'm sure all the celebs arrived on bikes instead of private jets I swear, the brain physiology of our species must be diverging and I'm on a different branch

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