Sentences with phrase «life history evolution of»

Life history evolution of marine invertebrates: new views from phylogenetic systematics.

Stahlschmidt believes that this larger role may be in shaping the life history evolution of species.

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All such religious claims not only attempt to solidify and freeze the life and movement of the divine process, but they foreclose the possibility of the enlargement and evolution of faith, and ruthlessly set the believer against the presence of Christ in an increasingly profane history, thereby alienating the Christian from the actuality of his own time.

So, if we know the number of speciation events that occurred over evolution's history, we could calculate the number of species that have lived on the earth.

If evolution is a law, as so many seems to accept, you would see apes evolving into human beings since beginning of human history and everyday of our lives.

EVOLUTION: the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

The Strategy of the Genes: A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology (London: Allen and Unwin, 1957); Hardy, Sir Alister, The Biology of God: A Scientist's Study of Man the Religious Animal (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976); by the same author, The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution and its Relation to the Spirit of Man (London: Collins, 1965), and The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History of Religion (London: Collins, 1966), Vols.

regardless of what is the issue of the bible, the fact that it influences the lives of billions of people for meliniums or thousands of years, that magnitude of effect is beyond doubt that it is the will of God.He guided the events in history for a purpose, a process of evolution that will be the foundation of another cyclic event for the future of humanity.this has been going on for 13.7 billion years, and this will go on for billons of years more.Will you be part of history.?

I urge all of you to educate yourselves to the nature of belief, to the history and evolution of theology and to continue in all aspects of your life to ridicule and demean, to attack this ridiculousness at every turn.

Study science, evolution and take a practical look at the history of life on this planet and even around you.

Here in part one, I am going to cover earth's history from the start of life to the evolution of our hominin ancestors, from 4.6 billion years ago to around six million years ago.

'' «Creationism», for the purposes of clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the funding agreement and clause 23E above, is any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes can not account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution.

23F) «Creationism», for the purposes of clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement and clause 23E above, is any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes can not account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution.

As does the struggle to understand hundreds of other deep topics related to the human mind, the history of life and the evolution of our cosmos.

The chapter on origins, for example, takes a quick tour through the big bang, the formation of Earth, the history of the continents, the origin of life, its evolutionary history, plus human evolution — and all in less than 40 pages.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in - situ observations, the Rosetta mission should be a key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

A New History of Life The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth Peter Ward and Joe Kirschwink Bloomsbury, New York, 2015 Hardback: 400 pp., illus.

Evolution in Four Dimensions Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life.

Due to climate change, she said, the world faces «one of the most daunting crossroads in the evolution of human history, we are at the point where we must decide: are we going to ignore science or are we going to rise to the call of history and forge a new life on Earth paradigm... where nature and humanity support each other.»

And life history evolution involves strategic tradeoffs in terms of how an animal is using resources across these traits.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

«The evolution of birds from their dinosaur ancestors was a landmark in the history of life,» says Wang.

The evolution of fish into walking land animals was one of the greatest chapters in the history of life.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals anevolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals anEvolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

The new finds «give us a very different view of mammal life during the age of dinosaurs,» says John Wible, an expert in mammalian evolution at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the work.

Suppose that a process he never wrote about, and never even imagined, has been controlling the evolution of life throughout most of the Earth's history.

The Mars Exploration Program studies Mars as a planetary system in order to understand the formation and early evolution of Mars as a planet, the history of geological processes that have shaped Mars through time, the potential for Mars to have hosted life, and the future exploration of Mars by humans.

Explanations in the first category are based on unique aspects of human life history, such as intelligence, social organization, and cultural transfer that allowed the evolution of longevity [45]--[51].

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, the Rosetta mission should become key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

Even if methane is found to have no connection to life, studying it will reveal some of the most fundamental aspects of the formation, climate histories, geology and evolution of Mars and Titan.

One of the great unknowns in the history of life is the part that Antarctica may have played in the evolution and migration of vertebrates (backboned animals) during the key time interval that spans the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and the beginning of the Age of Mammals (the Cretaceous — Paleogene or K — Pg, between 100 and 40 million years ago).

This led me to work on a diversity of topics, from life - history theory and optimal resource allocation to the evolution of mate choice and mating systems, population genetics and phylogeography, habitat and niche modeling, and the evolution of dispersal, kin structures and social systems.

Kappeler, P. M. & Heymann, E. W. Nonconvergence in the evolution of primate life history and socio - ecology.

Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history.

My research attempts to integrate these methods in order to investigate important questions in evolution: reconstructing ancestral protein sequences and determining the functional roles of proteins existing in organisms early in the history of life.

Creation of the modern atmosphere is, of course, perhaps the most critical event in geological history that powered the Cambrian Explosion and subsequent evolution of the aerobic forms of life, including all animals (Ohno, 1997).

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.

The influence of life - history differences on the evolution of reaction norms.

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AURA brought together a team of research scientists, astronomers, and technologists to assess a future space observatory that can significantly advance our understanding of the origin and evolution of the cosmos and whether extraterrestrial life is an integral part of cosmic history.

Burst size and latent period across diverse phytoplankton viruses can be explained in terms of life history evolution

My opinion has been that each person's life, or at the very least my own, is such a dynamic evolution of chance and circumstance, that it is unwise to let history dictate outcome.

We've shrunken it down to a third of a mile along the Charles River, and invite you to join us on a walk through time to tour the many incredible events during Earth's long and storied history: the formation of the oceans, the origin of life, the first animals, the rise and fall of dinosaurs, and the appearance and evolution of our own species (to name just a few).

My main interests in research has been life history evolution and eco-physiological adaptations in desiccation tolerance of so - called anhydrobiotic organisms, with particular focus on tardigrades.

She'll cover everything from what yoga really is, to its history, to its evolution into so many of our lives today.

Learn about the healing qualities and nutritional importance of live - culture ferments, as well as their illustrious history and integral role in human cultural evolution.

Doug Nichol's documentary «California Typewriter» is a rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and others fighting to preserve or re-embrace analog life.

«Digital Imagination: Bringing Terabithia to Life» is a six - minute behind - the scenes featurette that tackles the history of the novel and the evolution of the special effects.

Fossils Fuel Imagination: T Rex towers over the exhibits of the Kimball Natural History Museum, where the evolution and sustainability of life on Earth are the focus.