Sentences with phrase «animal more ability»

«Our hypothesis is that it was an adaptation to shallow water and gave the animal more ability to hunt.»

Not exact matches

Remember our brains are the products of millions of years of animal evolution prior to our more sentient abilities of the past 250,000 years.

Indeed, they advocate treating people as no more than the sum of their carbon molecules, of no inherent value beyond cognitive capacity (bioethics) or ability to suffer (animal rights) at the moment of measurement.

Education also serves to transform and refine desires, so that one does not simply seek immediate gratification of animal hungers, but gains the ability to postpone present satisfactions for the sake of more lasting benefits and to enjoy the «higher» pleasures as well as ordinary bodily delights.

Since you clearly just got that from wikipedia, why not paste the sentence after that as well — «Prosopagnosiacs, for example, may fail the test despite having the ability to report self awareness» So, the statement is just saying that the test isn't good because there are likely MORE self aware animals than the test will catch.

Those groups of animals which evolved the ability to help each other, were more likely to survive.

These days she's more apt to hold forth on the merits of graham vs. animal crackers, although she hasn't lost her ability to think profound thoughts.

In fact, the ability of minds and bodies to become more fearful in dangerous environments is the product of evolution, and exists in many different animal species.

Each year, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors attracts shutterbugs of all abilities, ages and backgrounds, who are encouraged to fan out across the state (and Mass Audubon's Wildwood Camp in Rindge, NH) to take their best shots of birds and other animals, friends and family members enjoying the outdoors, and more.

Each year, the competitionattracts shutterbugs of all abilities, ages and backgrounds, who are encouraged to fan out across the state (and Mass Audubon's Wildwood Camp in Rindge, NH) to take their best shots of birds and other animals, friends and family members enjoying the outdoors, and more.

The fact that they could do so suggests that the ability to think in an abstract way may be more common in nature than we might expect, and not just restricted to humans and a handful of animals with big brains.

The search for more of these factors is complicated by the rarity of brain samples from suicide victims and the lack of an animal model — humans are unique in their wilful ability to end their lives.

They also suggest that metabolism increases with size more than an animal's ability to gather food, putting a boundary on how big aquatic mammals can grow.

According to Rakison, the study shows that girls, more than boys, have a deep - rooted ability to learn to fear dangerous animals.

And in a mouse model of Alzheimer's, having more TREM2 in the brain seemed to relieve inflammation and amyloid buildup, slow the loss of neurons and preserve the animals» cognitive abilities.

Nicky Clayton at the University of Cambridge, UK, says the study shows that young chicks are capable of abstract relational thought: «The fact that young chicks can do this suggests this ability is more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously thought, and emerges earlier in development than expected.»

The oocytes of both the women and the worms, however, age much more rapidly, effectively ending the ability to reproduce during the second half of life, a relatively unique phenomenon in the animal kingdom.

He contends there is still more evidence for human - animal differences than for similarities and believes our own theory of mind fools us into seeing our abilities in animals, even when simpler explanations would suffice.

The ability to study such complex neurological responses in a simple animal like the worm helps scientists understand the more complex systems that exist in humans.

He cautions there is a huge gap between the simple response of single - celled animals and the cognitive abilities of developed species, but adds there is no doubt that a combined set of simple circuit models will have more complex behaviour.

Now scientists are figuring out how to observe astrocytes in living animals and learning even more about the cells» abilities.

Intelligence is difficult to test, but one aspect of being clever is inhibitory control, and the ability to override animal impulses and choose a more rational behaviour.

What's more, IL - 33 and the DNA vaccine augmented immunological responses in both CD4 helper T cells and CD8 killer T cells, with a large proportion of CD8 killer T cells demonstrating a further improvement in the ability of DNA vaccines to drive the immune system to kill tumor cells in animals.

On the flip side, said Tran, PGC1 alpha transgenic mice, which had increased expression of these genes, were particularly resistant to various stressors and recovered from injury much more than quickly than animals with normal regenerative abilities.

That ability opens the door for sequencing many more genomes at an even faster pace, which is necessary if scientists are going to get better at learning to predict or perhaps even change an animal's characteristics based on their DNA alone.

What's more, in rodents the two - eye cells hook into sub-cortical areas of the brain such as the amygdala that help process emotion and fear responses, and areas that play a role in an animal's ability to spot salient events in its environment — an approaching cat for instance.

Nunez calls on researchers to become more precise with their terms and suggests that it could be productive to investigate «what seems to be nearly universal in human cultures and in many nonhuman animals too: a «quantical» ability and not a numerical one.»

Development of a high - throughput sequence - independent amplification strategy for dsRNA viruses will increase our ability to sequence more diverse rotavirus strains, including clinical isolates from both humans and animals, regardless of their nucleotide sequence diversity.

We are arriving at the cusp of an era where we will have the ability to look at thousands of cells and monitor their activity in animals that are doing things in real environments or, more powerfully, in virtual reality environments.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

John Rogers says more broadly, the ability to integrate wireless electronic components into living animals opens up many possibilities for advances in research and human health.

«This in vitro model should give us the ability to assess a lot more compounds and agents at a reduced cost, with reduced animal use, and we should be able to do it faster,» said Bushdid, who is director of the Drug Development division's Toxicology & Pathology Services and discipline leader for the Developmental & Reproductive Toxicology (DART) program.

What's more, in an animal model of FTD, when tau was acetylated, neurons had reduced ability to degrade the protein, causing it to build up in the brain.

«Whether those turn out to be perfect models for a disease or not, the ability to make targeted mutations in whole animal models will provide much richer and more complex information to study,» says Joung.

Given this set of events, it has not been surprising to see more animal studies focusing on the ability of curcumin and turmeric to potentially improve chronic neurodegenerative problems including Alzheimer's disease.

Gordon and his team found several years ago that genetically obese mice (the animals lacked the ability to make leptin, a hormone that limits appetite) had 50 percent fewer Bacteroidetes bacteria and 50 percent more Firmicutes bacteria than normal mice did.

The animals get big and essentially indestructible; some get new abilities (have I mentioned the flying wolf) and they all want nothing more than to destroy.

The Rookie customisation is pretty impressive, allowing for a variety of animal types, each with their own unique abilities and, as you progress, you unlock more items of clothing and new weapon effects / Wisp powers during the game.

More proof that those in touch with Iceland's musical spirit animal are blessed with an ability to capture profound emotion through unusual means, American - born Alex Somers» work with the band Sigur Ros (and its essential continuation with its bandmate as Jonsi and Alex) now yields a score of singular spirituality as Somers tracks a family of ultra liberals who've have truly gone off society's reservation.

Foster homes also give us the ability to open up our kennels for even more animals in need.

Combined with the animal's increasing pain and decreasing ability to avoid the things that irritate or scare them, behavior changes may become more and more prominent.

«More and more shelters are filled with animals because people want to help, but they underestimate their ability — both financially and time-wise — to take care of a pet,» says Dr. HaMore and more shelters are filled with animals because people want to help, but they underestimate their ability — both financially and time-wise — to take care of a pet,» says Dr. Hamore shelters are filled with animals because people want to help, but they underestimate their ability — both financially and time-wise — to take care of a pet,» says Dr. Hanks.

You will have the ability to take your animal with you to more places.

During times of stress, the animal becomes more aware of itself than of others, intraspecific aggression is increased, immunity and health decrease, restlessness is increased, cooperation decreases, thresholds and the ability to inhibit behavior decrease, social bonds are weakened, and tolerance of irritants is decreased.

Our ability to feed more animals, both in - house and through our community programs, will be greatly enhanced with the addition of a pet food storage facility.

Foster care is a vital part of the shelter's ability to care for animals who need just a bit more time or special attention before they are ready to go to a new home.

Compounding this problem is the fact that the 3,500 shelters across the country are overcrowded and underfunded which places major limits on their ability to take in more animals and provide the care needed while they wait to be adopted.

Although the fighting ability is inbred in the dog, they are truly lovable animals who want nothing more than to please their owners.

The Transfer Program has proven to be an important aspect in our ability to save more animals.

My personal opinion is that Wisconsin SHOULD pass AB487 / SB450 — by decreasing the hold periods to a very reasonable 4 days, it will most definitely help compassionate shelter directors to decrease their length of stay to support their ability to save more lives.While I acknowledge that for a few very regressive shelter directors this may give them the ability to kill animals more quickly, it is imperative that these leaders be replaced with compassionate leaders regardless of the outcome of this bill.