"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All insects with an aquatic nymphal or larval stage seem to have adapted to water secondarily from terrestrial ancestors.
- This too indicates that insects are descended from a terrestrial ancestor.
- No matter how accustomed one became to low gravity, the ingrained responses of a million terrestrial ancestors died hard.
- Mesosaurs were the first aquatic reptiles, having apparently returned to an aquatic lifestyle from more terrestrial ancestors.
- Memories of our terrestrial ancestors and memories of our cosmic teachers are both at work in us.
- Its poor sense of smell is expected in an animal descended from terrestrial ancestors that specializes in catching aquatic prey.
- However, now plesiosaurs are recognized as highly derived marine reptiles descended from terrestrial ancestors.
- Because of this, sirens most likely have evolved from a terrestrial ancestor that still had an aquatic larval stage.
- The wolf comparison is about as opposite as I can imagine the whale's terrestrial ancestors to be: small deer-like creatures.
- One theory of the origins of human bipedality is that it evolved from a terrestrial knuckle-walking ancestor.
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