Assertion: tuatara | /r/HasProperty | conservative
Facets:
value: numerically
type: DEGREE
value: "morphologically conservative,"
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The team found that tuataras do in fact meet both of the generally-agreed conditions for being a living fossil: having a significantly slower rate of physical evolution and being "morphologically conservative," another way of saying that any visible changes that did occur were subtle and not much of a deviation from Tuatara Model 1.0.
text: We can truly say that, numerically, the tuatara is conservative and just like its relatives from over 200 million years ago," said Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Head of School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol and co-author of the report.