By the 1920s, almost everyone in the close knit community was distantly related to each other.

In the same year, the largest exporter of sugar was Brazil, distantly followed by Thailand, Australia and India.

Some of their myths are also distantly related to the myths of other Finno Ugric speakers like the Samis.

But examination of genomes particularly microbes has shown that genes moving between distantly related organisms are an important catalyst of evolutionary change.

And because we shared our genetic information with Linda, she could see that Harriet and I shared a very rare type of mitochondrial DNA Haplotype K1a1b1a which meant that we were distantly related.

The larvae typically feed on only one family of trees, but closely related species will feed on distantly related plants for example different members of the genus Datana feed on Juglandaceae, Hamamelidaceae, Ericaceae and Anacardiaceae (Miller 1992).

Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo Ocellated turkey, Meleagris ocellata Quail Order GalliformesFamily OdontophoridaeThe New World quails are small, plump terrestrial birds only distantly related to the quails of the Old World, but named for their similar appearance and habits.

Data from the sequence of the IRBP gene supported a closer relationship between Holochilus and Pseudoryzomys , with Lundomys more distantly related, but morphological data placed Holochilus and Lundomys closer together, as did the combined analysis of both morphological and IRPB data.