Sentences with phrase «as a survival mechanism in»

Cognitive dissonance (except when required as a survival mechanism in cases of severe trauma) is a sign of mental illness.

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She has learned to lie as a survival mechanism, to give hope in the face of despair just to make people «better.»

However, to explain the origin of DNA as the mechanism of inheritance, evolutionary theory requires that hundreds of millions of small changes must be retained for thousands upon thousands of generations without producing any survival advantage until some point in the dim and distant future when, lo and behold, they suddenly start working together.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymoras a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Another interesting survival mechanism of the cuckoo wasps is their ability to curl into a protective ball when in danger, a process known as conglobation.

The study, recently published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, showed that dinaciclib disrupted a cell survival mechanism known as the unfolded protein response (UPR).

«This «famine reaction», a survival mechanism which helped humans to survive as a species when food supply was inconsistent in millennia past, is now contributing to our growing waistlines when the food supply is readily available.»

The team thinks there must be a mechanism that ups the flow of blood to the brain as a survival strategy in such circumstances.

Behaviors that evolved as survival mechanisms to ensure that an animal feeds itself become inconvenient and potentially detrimental side effects in industrialized human populations where cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, rather than starvation, pose greater risks to long - term survival.

By shedding light on potential mechanisms that facilitated that bear's survival during her long swim, as well as the overall metabolism and activity of bears, the current study «profoundly contributes to understanding the value of summer habitats used by polar bears in terms of their energetics,» Harlow says.

He studies the molecular mechanisms by which female steroid hormones such as estrogen control development, differentiation, cellular proliferation and survival in hormone - responsive tissues and cancers.

The rationale is that chemotherapy and immunotherapy can induce autophagy in tumor cells, which in turn is used by tumor cells as a survival mechanism to resist pharmaceutical invention.

Your body always tries to maintain a balanced state, also known as homeostasis, and while you're on a fat - loss diet and trying to maintain a caloric deficit over prolonged periods, leptin levels start to decrease as your body's survival mechanism in order to preserve fat and keep you from starving to death.

In this survival mode, we either store fat for future energy stores or affect our stress hormones by causing our adrenals to release cortisol to boost blood sugar as a safety mechanism, keeping energy levels heightened.

As we begin to think about autophagy in general, and the specific mechanisms of mitophagy, the genius of the human body's innate natural survival adaptations reveal themselves in quite remarkable ways.

All of the long - term survival mechanisms that are not needed in that immediate moment take a back seat, such as reproductive function, digestion, hormone balancing, metabolism and detoxification.

As a result, many of us often exist in a constant state of stress, or our «fight or flight» mode, which is our body's survival mechanism to cope with oncoming dangers (except nowadays, our form of danger is a scathing email from a boss or a client!)

Whenever I diet down, my thyroid function seems to slow down (as a survival mechanism) thereby slowing metabolism thereby resulting in excess plasma LDL.

Caloric restriction may have its evolutionary roots as a survival mechanism, allowing species to survive on scraps when food is scarce in order to continue to reproduce.

Reading the results of Riley's survey and observing the systems, environments and day - to - day challenges faced by those working in our schools, it can be readily interpreted that many of these challenges can easily be perceived by school staff as threats, therefore undermining their wellbeing if they respond with classic survival mechanisms.

In response, the brain «unplugs» as part of its energy - preserving survival mechanism.

Many dogs will instinctively hide their pain as a survival mechanism, which, in the past, lead to incorrect assumptions about the ability of dogs to feel pain.

Many animals will instinctively hide their pain as a survival mechanism which in the past led to incorrect assumptions about the ability of dogs and cats to feel pain.

In the wild, animals tend to hide signs of illness or weakness as a survival mechanism.

The difference between us and our pets is that our pets can't outright tell us that they're in pain - often, the exact opposite is true - they hide all signs of pain as a survival mechanism they developed over thousands of years of evolution to keep weakness hidden from predators and other members of their own colonies, Your pet may tell you in different ways when they are uncomfortable, such as by whining or whimpering, staying too still and showing little interest in what's going on around them, sleeping more than usual, becoming aggressive or intolerant of petting or exercise or even by becoming more active - pacing, circling, wandering - as the pain is too much for them to sit still and rest.

On one level, if I can flip things around even more, Faux Faux (Lobby Life) engages as a cubist - like still life, but in the future tense, as in: In the future plants will uproot from fertile ground as a survival mechanisin the future tense, as in: In the future plants will uproot from fertile ground as a survival mechanisin: In the future plants will uproot from fertile ground as a survival mechanisIn the future plants will uproot from fertile ground as a survival mechanism.

Global warming is the subject of «Migrations of the Arthropods», Paul's 2012 photo and video work in which wearable structures are created using recycled plastic bottles to affect a transformation from human to insect, thus re-envisioning Kafka's «Metamorphosis» as an evolutionary survival mechanism.

Drawing parallels between this book and the difficulties inherent in the search of the «transchild» to find suitable role models within a traditional familial structure «My Model / MySelf» becomes about a journey to escape traditional gender roles through a capitalist phantasm of self - creation as a survival mechanism.

It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism on the earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all life on the planet and has been working for aeons of time, right back to the earliest life here... the planet was made more hospitable to life by life itself, geo - engineering on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the planet...

Just as the physical body develops survival mechanisms, so does the psyche by developing ways of perceiving and responding in a way that facilitates spiritual growth.