Sentences with phrase «adapt to their new environments by»

Some species of dolphins and whales adapted to the new environment by evolving echolocation, which allows them to «see» with their ears.

Ocean species seeking cooler waters to survive may have to adapt to their new environments by changing their diets

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The combination of low levels of ES funds and the cash rate remaining close to its target suggests a couple of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have adapted well to operating in the new environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.

The superiority of a living over an inanimate nexus of occasions is that it does not refuse so much of the novelty in its environment, but adapts it to itself by a massive imposition of new conceptual feeling, thus transforming threatened incompatibilities into contrasts.

Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin sensing, actuating electronics and temperature - sensitive artificial muscle that can adapt to the environment and crawl, similar to the movement of an inchworm or caterpillar.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

In a normal one - step relaxation, electrons kicked up by a burst of energy from one atomic location to another quickly adapt their «shape» to the new environment.

Those lines are a side effect of the genetic tweaks species gather by chance or while adapting to new environments.

Furthermore, by enabling flexible physiological responses to new environments, mitochondria have helped humans and other mammals to adapt and evolve throughout the history of life on earth.

By enabling flexible physiological responses to new environments, mitochondria have helped humans and other mammals to adapt and evolve throughout the history of life on earth.

«This is possibly one of the best examples of ecological speciation, that is the process by which selection generates new species, in the marine environment because the species evolved by adapting to different ecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics Research Unit.

In the distant past, populations of Mexican tetra ended up in underwater caves, a new environment to which the fish adapted by losing their eyesight.

In turning to a methodological issue, the new archaeological horizons in the Monte Verde area are difficult to trace laterally over areas larger than ~ 8 — 10 m2 and probably represent only fragments of a broader landscape utilized by people adapting to changing climates and environments in the area.

We all carry our childhood with us throughout our life... some things are buried deeply... some things we take out to remember frequently... Paula was a survivor, a chameleon... she learned to create new personas that fit the changing circumstances of her life by watching her mother react to life... I thought the author did an excellent job of contrasting Paula and Julian in light of their very different childhood experiences... Paula was a closed up prickly cactus... a dessert survivor... all hard, sharp edges that protected the true inner core of her... Julian was an open succulent... soft, sensitive to his nurturing environment... accepting and giving... like plants and animals, human beings adapt to their environment and when are we most open to learning?

However, Random House of Canada demonstrates how it adapts to this new environment of book sales and indie publishing by offering something of value.

«The few that are able to adapt to the new environment may disrupt the ecological balance of our natural habitats by competing with our native species for resources,» he explains.

Darwin famously observed that the beaks of each generation of Galapagos Islands finches changed to accommodate shifting food resources, allowing the birds to survive by adapting their capabilities to a new environment.

By not having volunteer / house - sitting duties or constantly adapting to new environments and researching / booking my next travel move, I hope to take my business to the next level.

Backwards beekeepers argue precisely the opposite — swarming is nature's way of creating new bee colonies, so swarming bees are by their very nature «survivors» who are adapted to their local environment, and better able to withstand pests and diseases.

We all know that adapting to climate change is going to cost us — but that doing nothing will ultimately cost us even more — however, a new report from the International Institute for Environment and Development says that the real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2 - 3 times greater than those estimated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: This new estimate places the adaptation costs in the range of $ 80 - 510 billion annually, rather than the $ 40 - 170 billion projection from the UNFCC.

Plant and animal species are adapting to changing environments by migrating to new areas.

Improve the current legal education practices by adapting them to the new social, political and regulative environment.

Highly organized and conscientious; entrusted by management with confidential materials; adapt quickly to new and evolving environments.

The new regulations don't appear at first glance to support the challenging environment for Educators - by introducing more classroom challenges and more pressure to change the layout of the physical space - Educators will inevitably spend less time enhancing the development of young children and more time adapting to yet another set of regulatory changes.