«Even though millions of
years of evolution separate yeast and rats, we found the same results in both models,» said Dr. Higgins, one of the study's lead authors.
Not exact matches
The world's first archaeology dig
of an old world monkey culture has uncovered the tools used by previous generations
of wild macaques — a group
of primates
separated from humans by some 25 million
years of evolution.
Because the Daohugou Biota and the much better studied Jehol Biota are similar in preservational mode and geographic location, but
separated by tens
of millions
of years, they give palaeontologists an outstanding, even unique, opportunity to study changes in the fauna
of this region over a significant span
of geological time and an important period in vertebrate
evolution.
Surprisingly, even though humans and sea slugs are
separated by more than 530 million
years of evolution, «Aplysia is similar to humans, more so than humans are with flies and worms,» Kandel says.
«We're
separated by 95 million
years of evolution, and we haven't made much progress understanding their communication,» says Reiss.
It identified significant convergence in body form between Australian freshwater terapontid grunters and several distantly related marine fish families
separated by 30 - 50 million
years of evolution.
«Mammals and molluscs are thought to be
separated by 600 million
years of evolution, and their sperm receptor proteins are almost completely different in sequence.
Fish and humans are
separated by 400 million
years of evolution, so the control
of these behaviors may not be the same in humans and fish.
Everyone wants to be with their family over the holidays, but spare a thought for a group
of orphan fossils that have been
separated from their parents since the dawn
of animal
evolution, over half a billion
years ago.
Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million
years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.
«This is despite the fact that 48 million
years of species turnover and
evolution separate the Messel lake ecosystem from modern ecosystems.»
Their importance in the immune response could be one reason those pathways have survived through millions
of years of separate evolution of these species.
The animals are
separated by 450 million
years of evolution, raising hopes that the drug could help heal human hearts to...
The fact that they are
separated by hundreds
of millions
of years of evolution makes it likely it will also do the same in humans.
On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair
of battles
separated by thousands
of miles and hundreds
of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history
of human
evolution on its head.
Even so, thousands
of years of co-
evolution doesn't quite erase millions
of years of separate species
evolution.