Sentences with phrase «over planetary history»
Over planetary history, warm - blood animals have outperformed cold - blooded animals in adapting to changing temperatures
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New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.
Mars» volcanoes show evidence for activity over a larger time span than those on Earth, but their histories of magma production might be quite different,» said Jacob Bleacher, a planetary geologist at Goddard and a co-author on the study.
Prevailing theories of solar system formation, Levison explains, hold that early in the system's history there were plenty of icy objects left over from planetary formation.
Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).
With this exceptional leap in performance, new domains in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation history of planetary systems.
Over the last few years, I've gotten to know a determined cast of characters in academia aiming to identify paths to a good Anthropocene — Anthropocene being the closest thing there is to common shorthand for this span of human - dominated planetary history unfolding around us.