Sentences with phrase «accelerated evolution of»

In the January 20, 2000 Nature paper, Wu and co-authors describe the accelerated evolution of male reproductive genes in man and other primates.
These include molecular evolution of transcription factors or changes in transcriptional regulation (Enard et al., 2002; Konopka et al., 2009), accelerated evolution of small non-coding RNAs (Pollard et al., 2006), changes in the tissue - specificity of enhancer elements (McLean et al., 2011; Prabhakar et al., 2008), or changes in patterns of alternative splicing of specific genes (Calarco et al., 2007).
Such aerobically obtained energy vastly exceeded that of anaerobic respiration, setting the stage for vastly accelerated evolution of eukaryotes.
Accelerated evolution of PAK3 - and PIM1 - like kinase gene families in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata.
Compared with the ancestral lineage, the East African cichlid genomes possess: an excess of gene duplications; alterations in regulatory, non-protein-coding elements in the genome; accelerated evolution of protein - coding elements, especially in genes for pigmentation; and other distinct features that affect gene expression, such as insertions of transposable elements and regulation by novel microRNAs.
CMUs artificial intelligentsia foresee accelerated evolution of cybersmarts.
As my company has grown, and I try to blend our old - school legacy values with new blood senior leadership, I often find myself referring to many of Lencioni's real world examples and utilize his tools to accelerate the evolution of the team around me.»
Already, researchers have traced the accelerating evolution of the English language, mapped the rise and fall of various people, and uncovered patterns of censorship and suppression in Soviet Russia, modern China, and 1950s America — and that's only a beginning.
Their research, published in January, shows that bacteriophages can rapidly accelerate the evolution of human pathogens by transferring genes from one bacterial species to another.
Such antibiotics could be toxic if livestock workers inhale them and also could accelerate the evolution of drug - resistant bacteria.
Thus Yoga is a systematic process to accelerate the evolution of the individual by culturing the mind and bringing out an all - round personality development culminating in experience of higher states of consciousness.

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At Epic Sciences, we develop clinical solutions that accelerate drug development and provide valuable insights into the dynamics of cancer growth, evolution and heterogeneity.
Ever since the first banknotes were printed cash has played a critical role in the way society functions, and the evolution of money has reflected the ever - accelerating growth in technology.
The pace of evolution in the retail sector is accelerating in a manner that few would have anticipated even five years ago.
actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang
Majority of species appeared in a very short geological time — The Cambrian explosion occurred 530 billion yrs ago, and the rate of evolution accelerated over 70 - 80 billion years (now I hope we understand that figure)!
now I understand the problem why most people can not easily comprehend the reality of God, its because of lack of adequate knowledge of history.But I am optimistic that the process of change or evolution which will take centuries to be realized will be more easy and accelerated in the future, with better educational system.
But still most people would tend to agree that a program of controlled eugenics that involved exterminating humans with defective genes is immoral even though it could accelerate evolution an better the species.
First, we need to recognise that technological and social change are evolving at an accelerated pace, and politicians and regulators need to map and understand the recent evolution of the key threats.
They found that the factors that most greatly accelerated the formation of new species were life in extensive mountain ranges (like the Andes and New Guinea Highlands); the evolution of epiphytism (life in the trees); pollination by orchid bees, moths, or butterflies; and origin of pollinia (packages of hundreds to thousands of pollen grains dispersed as a unit).
If scientists find that the expansion of the universe has always been accelerating, they will have to completely revise their understanding of cosmic evolution.
The findings, published recently in the peer - reviewed academic journal Nature Communications, show periodically flooded soils may actually lose organic matter at accelerated rates, said Steven Hall, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology and corresponding author of the study.
Some of these accelerated regions of evolution may impart the recognizable traits we attribute to each species, like the wings of a bat, the massive body size of the elephant and the unique coloring of the thirteen - lined ground squirrel.
Microbes assist in digestion, reproduction and even accelerate the pace of animal evolution, he demonstrated.
They identified three genes (FANCL, VRK2 and BCL11A) associated with large numbers of accelerated regions of evolution.
«The basic idea is that we want to accelerate evolution to make awesome amounts of valuable chemicals,» said Wyss Core Faculty member George Church, Ph.D., who is a pioneer in the converging fields of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and genetics.
THE computer age dawned before this magazine launched, but New Scientist has been around for long enough to capture the machines» ever - accelerating evolution and their infiltration of our daily lives.
«Tumors collected from devils subjected to the removal programme showed accelerated temporal evolution of tetraploidy compared with tumors from other populations where no increase of tetraploid tumors were observed.»
Most forms of cancer resemble evolution happening on an accelerated timescale, with a sudden explosion of genetic rearrangements taking place in the cells.
In addition to the loss of these genes, the V. scurruloideum mitogenome shows other signs of degenerative evolution, such as miniaturization and an accelerated mutation rate.
Tremblaya and its counterparts have shed many of the genes involved in DNA repair, further accelerating their rates of evolution.
More than a quarter of the evolution of spiral gingers took place during periods of accelerated genetic change.
Now the team, which includes scientists at the John Innes Centre, plan to harness this process to generate «libraries» of valuable compounds created from the technique which they have named Accelerated Evolution.
On the basis of their own preliminary data, they, too, suspected that the pace of human evolution was accelerating.
NOT SO FAST Despite all these clues that human evolution has continued and accelerated into modern times, many evolutionary biologists remain deeply skeptical of the claims.
«Those arms races can be pretty intense and not dissimilar to things like antibiotics and bacteria, where you have a really strong, kind of do - or - die selective pressure that can accelerate the pace of evolution and intensify the changes that take place over time.»
The study also found that the body shape of male fish evolves faster than that of females, which is likely because sexual selection accelerates the speed of evolution in males, Tobler said.
«Engineers invent process to accelerate protein evolution: New tool enables researchers to test millions of mutated proteins in a matter of hours or days, speeding the search for new medicines, industrial enzymes and biosensors.»
Researchers have long assumed that these dramatic transitions resulted in a sort of accelerated evolution in which genes for traits such as skin color and stature changed rapidly to allow humans to survive in their new habitats.
These mutations varied tremendously between populations, which counters a popular view that many of the differences between populations arose by chance or were genetic variants that hitchhiked along with other genes that improved reproductive success, says biological anthropologist Henry Harpending of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and co-author of another study of accelerated evolution.
Their modelling showed that moderately accelerated evolution was sufficient to explain the seemingly sudden appearance of many groups of advanced animals in the fossil record during the Cambrian explosion.
So for this extended period in the evolution of life on this planet, we are only very recently plunging, arguably at an accelerating rate, into previously not experienced degrees of cooling and also probably into new extremes of rapid climate variability.
We found an excess of gene duplications in the East African lineage compared to tilapia and other teleosts, an abundance of non-coding element divergence, accelerated coding sequence evolution, expression divergence associated with transposable element insertions, and regulation by novel microRNAs.
Because changes to microbes appear to happen far more quickly than changes to the actual genome, these kinds of changes might accelerate the pace at which different populations are pushed apart, setting the stage for the evolution of new species.
When he compared the genes in humans and gorillas, which are more distantly related, he noticed that the rate of evolution of maleness genes was still accelerated — but at a much slower rate in gorillas.
Examination of Boule evolution in insect and mammalian lineages, representing the Protostome and Deuterostome clades of bilateral animals, failed to detect any evidence for accelerated evolution.
Examination of Boule evolution within insect and mammalian lineages revealed little evidence for accelerated evolution, unlike most reproductive genes.
Thus, immune selection accelerated the rate of virulence evolution, rendering parasites more dangerous to naïve hosts.
Swami Vivekananda emphasised the role of yoga as a means to accelerate the rate of evolution of an individual soul.
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