Lemurs are primates so distantly related to humans they look more like cats than monkeys.
Saudi Arabia, by contrast, is stranded on one of those lonely clumps of products that seem only distantly related to anything else.
They were distantly related, had been together in the farmhouse since his mother died, twelve years ago, and his father the following winter.
To be sure, eldest daughter Mary, who has now wed that distantly related heir, seems dead set on raising her brood in Downton.
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In 2011, Jenny Holzhaider of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and her colleagues looked at an even more distantly related species, New Caledonian crows.
Researchers said the 165-million-year-old creature was distantly related to modern-day crocodiles.
The structures of proteins with similar functions in distantly related species are so closely alike that they could not be the determinants of their different developments.
This region, located on the surface of the right hemisphere, excels at drawing together distantly related information, which is precisely what's needed when working on a hard creative problem.
Most everyone in Iceland's small population is distantly related.
"This particular dinosaur is a bit more distantly related to birds - it's a more primitive dinosaur... it indicates wings evolved earlier than previously thought, " she told the BBC World Service programme Science in Action.
Researchers writing in The Lancet do not know exactly why Mycobacterium abscessus - which is distantly related to the bacteria that causes tuberculosis - is more likely to infect people with cystic fibrosis but it could be related to problems with the immune system.
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