Early representations of branching phylogenetic trees include a " Paleontological chart " showing the geological relationships among plants and animals in the book Elementary Geology, by Edward Hitchcock ( first edition: 1840 ). phylogeny deals with relation of convergence and diversion

Early phylogenetic analyses supported the hypothesis that the genus comprises only a few species with considerable phenotypic variation.

He has also collaborated with geneticists in seeking to correlate linguistic with genetic findings ( e. g., Sarah A. Tishkoff, Floyd A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Christopher Ehret, Alessia Ranciaro, et al., “ The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans ,” Science 324, 22 May 2009 ) and in developing mathematical tools for dating linguistic history ( e. g., Andrew Kitchen, Christopher Ehret, Shiferew Assefa, and Connie Mulligan, " Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East ," Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, July 2009 ).

There is yet another name that Lugh's spear goes by: " A tree, the finest of the wood " ( Early Mod.

By contrast, the Christmas tree in spite of frequent association with Thor's Oak cannot be shown to be an innovation predating the Early Modern period.

Early in the 20th century, chestnut blight destroyed about four billion American chestnut trees, and reduced the most important tree throughout the East Coast to an insignificant presence.

Early adherents adopted their dietary laws based on their interpretation of several books of the Bible, including the Book of Genesis (" Then God said, " I give you every Seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.

Early one morning a few days before Doris's fifth birthday he kidnaps her from the playground of her nursery school — still without looking at her —, drives with her to Hyde Park, strangles her from behind and buries her face down under a tree in a shallow grave dug out with his bare hands.

Early hammocks were woven out of bark from a hamack tree, and later this material was replaced by sisal fibers because it was more abundant.

In the Early Middle Ages, Windsor Forest came under the control of the pagan Angles who worshiped their own pantheon of gods, including Woden, who was sometimes depicted as horned ,, and whose Norse equivalent Odin rode across the night sky with his own Wild Hunt and hanged himself on the world tree Yggdrasil in order to learn the secret of the runic alphabet.

Early in the morning, people gather under a big tree or on the bank of a lake to witness the sunrise.

Early settlers thought its V-shaped peaks resembled the fork or " crotch " of a tree.

Early white settlers used cabbage tree palms to make strong fence posts.

Early residential telephone systems used simple screw terminals to join cables to sockets in a tree topology.

Early in the morning of Christmas Eve, the head of the family would go to a forest in order to cut badnjak, a young oak, the oak tree would then be brought into the church to be blessed by the priest.

Early days the two communities were separated with a large mangrove tree standing in a muddy land area.

Early Brisbane people called it One Tree Hill when bush at the top of the hill was cleared except for one large eucalypt tree.

Early settlers in the Cacapon River Valley congregated on this exact site for religious occasions and family burials beneath an ancient oak tree.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

Early atomic time scales consisted of quartz clocks with frequencies calibrated by a single atomic clock ; the atomic clocks were not operated continuously.

The current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around the 12th century BCE, during the archaeologically designated Early Basketmaker II Era.

Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to the moniker " City of Churches ".

* Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan, New York & London, Continuum, 2009.

* During the finale of the song Distant Early Warning by Canadian band Rush, Geddy Lee sings, " Absalom Absalom Absalom.

The subsoil of the Andaman islands consists essentially of Late Jurassic to Early Eocene ophiolites and sedimentary rocks ( argillaceous and algal limestones ), deformed by numerous deep faults and thrusts with ultramafic igneous intrusions.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

The European season usually starts in late April or Early May and is usually over by mid October.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

Early work on Enigma was performed here by Dilly Knox, John R. F.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

Early buses, known as trolleybus, were powered by electricity supplied from overhead lines.

Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs ( ayatana ).

Early descriptions of the production process and glazing techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central government's construction agency.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

* Early films by, about or starring Charlie Chaplin at the Internet Archive

Many of the Germanic people that filled the power vacuum left by the Western Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages codified their laws.

Early farmers cultivated many popular vegetables from the Brassica oleracea ( wild cabbage ) by artificially selecting for certain attributes.

Early attempts to identify relationships between major groups were made in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such as Thomas Henry Huxley and E. Ray Lankester.

Early in the spring of 1621, mercenary forces under the command of Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach crossed the Rhine River from Alsace to junction with forces under Ernst von Mansfeld.

Early observations by Ernst Mach used grooves in the wall of a duct to produce Mach waves in a duct, which were then photographed by the schlieren method, to obtain data about the flow in nozzles and ducts.

Early twentieth-century biologists like Ernst Haeckel viewed embryology as a recapitulation of evolution, which implies a kind of organising memory, and a few modern biologists, such as Rupert Sheldrake, influenced by Jungian ideas and by vitalism, have posited organising fields of life consisting of memories and drives.

Early pieces such as Towards a Philosophy of the Act and Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity are indebted to the philosophical trends of the time — particularly the Marburg School Neo-Kantianism of Hermann Cohen, including Ernst Cassirer, Max Scheler and, to a lesser extent, Nicolai Hartmann.

* Kitzinger, Ernst, Early Medieval Art at the British Museum, ( 1940 ) 2nd edn, 1955, British Museum

the latest semantical research of L. Hölscher ), historians talk about the Early Modern period as a “ confessional age ” ( first evidence: Ernst Troeltsch, 1906 ) and with good reasons use the terms of confessionalization and confessionalism.