Sentences with phrase «adaptive changes to the environment»

If anything the evidence indicates that the great cognitive achievement in human evolution was cortical plasticity, which allows for rapidly adaptive changes to the environment, both across evolutionary time and [across] individual lifetimes.

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Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.

The researchers also used the genome to track down the genes involved in adaptive coloration, which allows the octopus to change its skin color and texture in order to blend into its environment and escape predation.

«They provide us with an echo of real ecological processes, like adaptive radiations, when an organism rapidly diversifies due to a change in environment or to fill a new niche,» O'Dwyer said.

Companies that need to update their course material on a continuous basis will benefit from adaptive learning environments once machines have the ability to accurately predict how course material needs to improve and change.

That's why we developed our revolutionary Intelligent Adaptive Learning ™ technology, and combined it with a rigorous curriculum and an engaging game - like environment, to change the learning paradigm.

But we have to make sure that we place most of our energy on adaptive work, achieving goals in an ever - changing environment.

It has the same 6 - inch Carta E Ink display with 300dpi and illumination, but with a difference: it's adaptive, changing automatically to suit the environment you're in.

With an adaptive front light, Kindle Voyage senses the light in your environment, and changes the setting to the ideal brightness.

With a new adaptive front light, Kindle Voyage senses the light in your environment and changes the setting to the ideal brightness.

Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.

While Indigenous peoples are generally depicted as victims of poverty and vulnerability to climate change, the document suggests that it would also be appropriate to emphasize their sensitivity to the environment, adaptive capacity and resilience, as manifested by their ability to modify their behaviour in response to changing climatic conditions.

A key component in answering this question will be a need to establish the likelihood, and realized extent, of species acclimation (or adaptation) to environmental change [7,8] and, if common across functionally important taxa, how such coping and adaptive strategies will alter species — environment interactions in the long term [9].

Law firms and in - house legal departments need attorneys who possess a more wide - ranging and adaptive skill set that enables them to embrace the constantly - changing environment rather thanclinging to old ways of being.

«The Flex Modification is an adaptive program that will allow us to continue to assist struggling homeowners in a changing housing environment and simplify the process for servicers to deliver those solutions,» says Bill Cleary, vice president of Single - Family Servicing Policy at Fannie Mae.