Sentences with phrase «about adaptation to environment»

As Tatkin points out, «When we think of insecure attachment or insecure cultures... we're talking about adaptation to environment.»

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Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

The thing that I find most interesting about the hominin fossil record is the diversity of adaptations that evolved to meet the challenges of changing environments after 3.0 myr.

This means that by studying the effect of genetic changes during the domestication of dogs we can also learn about our own species» adaptations to the environment and related diseases.

As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

And adaptation is also about the ability to move from the same spot in one Rendition to the equivalent spot in another as changes in the reading environment occur.

Finally, the third part is about adaptation, learning how to inhabit this unfamiliar environment, and to build upon it anew.

There is an urgency that is required of the environmental movement to talk about what failure to win on mitigation or adaptation on a large scale, in meaningful ways, could likely result in — geoengineering / climate engineering of the environment as the only option.

And it's not just skiers and tourism officials who are getting nervous about the fate of the continent's famous mountains.Temperatures in the Alps are increasing at a rate more than twice the global average, according to a recent report by the European Environment Agency, «Regional climate change and adaptation: The Alps facing the challenge of changing water resources.»