evolutionary lineage

collocation in English

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evolutionary
adjective
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/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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lineage
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/
the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandlineagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The key question is the extent of mutation rate heterogeneity among sites in theevolutionarylineageof humans.
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A genetic lineage can be contrasted with anevolutionarylineagein that a genetic lineage applies to a locus.
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This article mainly deals with the axial skeletons of humans; however, it is important to understand theevolutionarylineageof the axial skeleton.
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Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the modern horse'sevolutionarylineagethan that of any other animal.
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A series of such species is collectively known as anevolutionarylineage.
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However, the mancallines were a very distinct and uniqueevolutionarylineageand are thus usually retained as a subfamily.
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Geneticists study these variants in populations to find theevolutionarylineageto a common male human ancestor.
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Recent molecular phylogenetic evidence has shown that they belong to a uniqueevolutionarylineage.
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Conventional accounts ofevolutionarylineagepresent themselves as the simple branching out of species into novel forms.
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The cribellates are split off as a separate taxon that retained the primitive feature, which makes the lineage paraphyletic and not synonymous with any realevolutionarylineage.
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However, in different evolutionary lineages different mechanisms may occur.
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Guides are e included in evolutionary lineages and the acquisition of new characters offers a powerful biostratigraphic tool which makes it possible to overcome taxonomic problems.
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It is out-dated because more recent molecular studies have proved that it contains two separate evolutionary lineages, the two clades mentioned above.
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These families belong to two different evolutionary lineages (freshwater mussels and freshwater clams), and the two groups are not closely related.
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They comprise at least 12 major evolutionary lineages, and there are variations in the colors and patterns of these toads across their range.
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Piwi proteins are highly conserved across evolutionary lineages and are present in both plants and animals.
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All known representatives are mushroom-forming, white-spored agarics that belong to four distinct evolutionary lineages.
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Recent molecular data have revealed the existence of six main evolutionary lineages.
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These groups do not necessarily consist of a single genus, but as presented here they do form distinct monophyletic evolutionary lineages.
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Researchers studied eukaryotic evolutionary lineages of histone proteins and found diversification among the regulatory genes.
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