How to Use tree of life in a Sentence

tree of life

noun phrase

• In that sense, beetles are a microcosm of the tree of life, McKenna says.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
• By looking across the tree of life, researchers can see which DNA regions have changed and which ones haven’t.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 27 Apr. 2023
• The finding points to a way that animals across the tree of life can evolve new behaviors.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
• This one—which is more than half off—features a gorgeous tree of life engraving on both sides and gold aluminum tubes.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 6 May 2024
• But what shape does this cosmological tree of life take?
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Native Americans in the area call the rot-resistant cedar the tree of life and once used it to make everything from canoes to baskets.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• If ctenophores branched off before sponges in the tree of life, that suggests one of two scenarios for neuron evolution.
  — Cara Giovanetti, Scientific American, 4 Jan. 2024
• Still, researchers are starting to find similar sleep states across many branches of the animal tree of life.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Researchers are starting to find similar sleep states across many branches of the animal tree of life.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
• Snakes may be quick to evolve into new forms, but people could be haphazardly pruning those buds and branches off the tree of life before they’ve even been spotted.
  — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• Moreover, the mystery around the origins of introns only deepens in light of the extreme variation in where introns tend to show up throughout the eukaryote tree of life.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Beyond just sea stars, the findings may help scientists understand how new animal shapes and structures evolve in other branches of the tree of life, Oliveri says.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• Somewhere in Earth’s past, some branches on the tree of life adopted a body plan that made breathing and cooling down considerably more efficient than how mammalian bodies like ours do it.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
• The team also found evidence to support this hypothesis, with the data revealing that masturbation in males co-evolved with high STI load across the primate tree of life.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2023
• All of these things still happen and are important for understanding evolution, but snakes (and similarly diverse animal groups like rodents and passerine birds) suggest that maybe big, sudden jumps are part of how the tree of life has grown too.
  — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• Despite being superficially similar and about equally as old, jellyfish and comb jellies belong to two different branches on the tree of life.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• Decorators, who are typically women, paint the pieces using ancestral motifs that include spirals, waves, spider webs, roosters, serpents, fish and an arboreal design known as the tree of life, which is dotted with apples.
  — Chantel Tattoli Marko Risovic, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• To many evolutionary biologists, their discovery and subsequent studies justify revising the textbook pictures of the tree of life to situate us — and every other creature built from eukaryotic cells — as mere offshoots of the Asgard group.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024