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Among the 1,511 known bat species, about 139 belong to the Myotis genus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Homo erectus, or H.erectus, occupies an important place in human evolutionary history because it was the first species in the genus Homo known to have migrated out of Africa.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
He lists a particular genus of moths christened Eucosoma bobana followed by E. cocana, E. dodana, E. fofana and so on, in singalong fashion for 23 more variations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The chance to name a species produces a curious sort of immortality for the bestowers: Their names might forever be attached to the animals, right after the genus and species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That problem also derailed domestication of North American bighorn sheep, which belong to the same genus as Asiatic mouflon sheep, ancestor of our domestic sheep.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In fact, more than 10,000 species have been described in just 83 big genera since the year 2000, which is about 2.5 times the size of the total flora of Ireland.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
Dr Matthew McCurry, Curator of Palaeontology, Australian Museum, said the discovery of three new genera of monotremes helps to piece together their remarkable evolutionary story.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2024
In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024
At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
There are more than 100 species of Nepenthes, which is one of the many genuses of carnivorous plants found around the world.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.
From Slate ● May 17, 2016
Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2010
Genus, a sort, becomes genera in Latin, and genuses in English.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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We the People: Gen
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The ACT Science Test: Biology Review 1
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