According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

According to a joint research agenda conducted through the U. S. Department of Energy, the fossil energy ratios ( FER ) for cellulosic ethanol, corn ethanol, and gasoline are 10. 3, 1. 36, and 0. 81, respectively.

According to the famous DNA hybridization study into avian phylogenetic relationships by Sibley and Ahlquist, the split of the Procellariiformes into the four families occurred around 30 million years ago ; a fossil bone often attributed to the order, described as the genus Tytthostonyx, has been found in rocks dating around the Cretaceous – Paleogene boundary ( 70-60 mya ), but the remains are too incomplete for placement within the Procellariiformes to be certain.

According to Professor Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand, numerous fossil bones indicate some populations of Heidelbergensis were " giants " routinely over 2. 13 m ( 7 ft ) tall and inhabited South Africa between 500, 000 and 300, 000 years ago.

According to Renaissance accounts, gigantic, triangular fossil teeth often found embedded in rocky formations were once believed to be the petrified tongues, or glossopetrae, of dragons and snakes.

According to Thewissen et al., the teeth of pakicetids also resemble the teeth of fossil whales, being less like a dog's incisors, with a serrated triangular shape, similar to a shark's tooth, which is another link to more modern whales.

An in-depth mitochondrial DNA population analysis study stated: “ According to the fossil record, the Red Panda diverged from its common ancestor with bears about 40 million years ago ( Mayr 1986 ).

) According to Crabtree, et al., achieving a hydrogen economy requires deriving hydrogen efficiently and inexpensively from natural sources without using fossil fuels.

According to these discovered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a man nor an ape, but to a fossil of an extinct genus of peccary called Prosthennops, and its identification as an ape was retracted in the journal Science in 1927.

According to the fossil record, the Aplodontioidea split from the squirrels in the Middle or Late Eocene as indicated by the extinct genera † Spurimus and † Prosciurus.

According to some research, district heating with combined heat and power ( CHPDH ) is the cheapest method of cutting carbon emissions, and has one of the lowest carbon footprints of all fossil generation plants.

According to him Dr Hoffmann paid the quarrymen when they informed him of fossil finds.

According to a DNA sequence study, the ancestors of the gundis diverged from those of the Laotian rock rat around the Lutetian, some 44 mya ( Early / Middle Eocene ).< ref name = Huchon2007 > ( 2007 ): Multiple molecular evidences for a living mammalian fossil.

According to the original publication, the generic name Han is a reference to the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in present-day China ; and the specific epithet solo refers to the fact that the species is the youngest Diplagnostidae fossil found to that date, suggesting that it was the last surviving member of that family.

According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the burning of coal, a fossil fuel, is a significant contributor to global warming.

According to a report by the assistant secretary for fossil energy at the U. S. Department of Energy, clean coal technology has paid measurable dividends.

According to fossil evidence, the species ' area in the warmer Atlantic period ( around 8000 – 5000 years ago ) of Holocene reached as far north as Denmark.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

According to Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.

" According to University of Richmond Law Review, " When offering an Alford plea, a defendant asserts his innocence but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict him of the offense.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

According to anthropologists Todd Sanders and Harry G. West, evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.

According to Massiter, Newton believed that CND was controlled by extreme left-wing activists and that Bruce Kent might be a crypto-communist, but Massiter found no evidence to support either opinion.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

According to Françoise Hélène Pairault's study, historical and archaeological evidence point to the fact that both Diana of the Aventine and Diana Nemorensis were the product of the direct or indirect influence of the cult of Artemis spread by the Phoceans among the Greek towns of Campania Cuma and Capua, which in turn passed it over to the Etruscans and the Latins by the VI and V centuries BC.

According to archaeological evidence and Spanish chronicles the civilization existed from Bahia de Caraquez to Cerro de Hojas in the south.

According to James Charlesworth, there is no evidence the surviving book of this name ever contained any such content.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

According to Francis King, historical evidence shows that there were " twenty three members of a flourishing Second Order under Berridge-Mathers in 1913.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, " The evidence afforded by Egyptian and Greek texts support the view that Imhotep's reputation was very respected in early times ... His prestige increased with the lapse of centuries and his temples in Greek times were the centers of medical teachings.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

According to a systematic review by the Cochrane Collaboration, the best evidence in the treatment of LEMS exists for 3, 4-aminopyridine and IVIG.

According to skeptic Robert T. Carroll, " Reports of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé have been circulating for the past two hundred years, yet no one has photographed the creature or produced any physical evidence of its existence.

According to aboriginal oral traditions, as well as archaeological evidence, maple tree sap was being processed into syrup long before Europeans arrived in the region.

According to evidence, Najibullah dependent on his family and his professional network, and appointed more often than not people he know to top positions within the KHAD.

According to Peikoff, one can be certain of a proposition if all of the available evidence supports it, i. e., it can be logically integrated with the rest of one's knowledge ; one is then certain within the context of the evidence.

According to Rolt, he also managed to solve the problem caused by the weight of the engine upon these primitive rails.

According to Adorno, society's self-preservation had become indistinguishable from societally sanctioned self-sacrifice: of " primitive " peoples, primitive aspects of the ego and those primitive, mimetic desires found in imitation and sympathy.

According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictograms of the Uruk period era suggest that " Stone was scarce, but was already cut into blocks and seals.

According to Zerzan, original human societies in paleolithic times, and similar societies today such as the! Kung, Bushmen and Mbuti, live a non-alienated and non-oppressive form of life based on primitive abundance and closeness to nature.

According to Rothko, the work of modernists, influenced by primitive art, could be compared to that of children in that " child art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a mimicry of himself.

According to this view, more advanced cultures should be more monotheistic, and more primitive cultures should be more polytheistic.

According to Needham, the earliest development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers Shi Shen and Gan De in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring armillary instrument.

" According to Marx, this began with the phase of primitive communism ( hunter-gatherer society ), after which the Neolithic Revolution gave way to slave societies, progressing into the feudal society, and then into his present era of the Industrial Revolution, after which he held that the next step was for the proletariat to overthrow the owners of industry and establish a socialist society, which would further develop into a communist society, in which class distinctions, money, and the state would have withered from existence entirely.

According to Kernberg, all ' the primitive defenses, such as splitting, and projective identification, are commonly connected with primitively organized personalities, such as ':

According to the National Weather Service Handbook No. 1 – Facsimile Products, the primitive equations can be simplified into the following equations:

According to Camilla Gryski, a Canadian librarian and author of numerous string figure books, " We don't know when people first started playing with string, or which primitive people invented this ancient art.

According to Abram Hoffer, " primitive " peoples do not consume processed foods and do not have " degenerative " diseases.

According to Marx, the recognition of these individual rights was the result of the universal extension of market relations to all of society and to all of the world, first through the primitive accumulation of capital ( including the first period of European colonialism ) and then through the globalization of the capitalist sphere.

According to Islam, Noah's ark was a flat watercraft made of logs, tied together with primitive ropes, the flood was local, around the Dead Sea area, and the animals were Noah's domesticated animals.

According to Baldwin: " Religion looms large in the life of primitive man.

According to Takemoto, Type B, which is overwhelming in number, appeared during the transitional period between primitive society and class society.

According to Christopher Witcombe, " the ironic identification of these figurines as ' Venus ' pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women, and about taste ".

According to James Hasting's Encyclopædia of religion and ethics ( 1914 ) the presentation in the Gospel of the Hebrews is lifelike, Jewish, and primitive, sometimes bordering on the grotesque and drawing near to the apocalyptic texts.

According to these, in 5000 BC these societies already had some level of primitive agriculture and cultivated maize.

According to Pausanias, the deity most worshipped at Thespiae was Eros, whose primitive image was an unwrought stone.

According to a Catholic News Service online news story by Carol Glatz from 5 August 2011, Pope Benedict XVI noted this when he explained the importance of astronomy-especially when clocks were primitive and prone to error-in the determination of certain liturgical celebration days and the times for certain daily prayers, such as the Angelus.

" According to Rex Stewart, the primitive recording techniques of the day ( for example, bass and snare drums could not be recorded ) failed to provide a true record of the band.