Sentences with phrase «years of evolution separates»

«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.
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