Sentences with phrase «as species»

There will be «winners» and «losers» as species adapt to a changing climate.

Species, too, could have zones of erratic mixing but still overall be defined as species.

We have changed the world irrevocably and may soon transform ourselves as a species.

«As in the environment above the sea, we tend to think about movement in a horizontal dimension, across the breadth of the oceans, but at sea there are perhaps even greater habitat boundaries and gradients as species move vertically with depth.

In short, it appears that our technology has created ways of accelerating change (genetic engineering, for instance) and new habitats (like the modern city), essentially fracturing our biology and transforming our future as a species.

By increasing empathy, he says, oxytocin «makes us bind together as a species.

And — perhaps this is the best part — it makes you realize how audacious we are as a species that was «born yesterday» to think we can understand the universe!

They then measured Darwinian natural selection on flowering time and found differences in flowering times that have evolved over the past 50 years as the species moved northwards, following its initial introduction to the east coast of the USA.

This more positive and social response could help explain the human connection that happens during times of crises, a connection that may be responsible, at least in part, for our collective survival as a species.

They often do not like direct eye contact, do not prefer to look at faces compared with other things, do not copy, do not mimic, do not yawn when others yawn or retch when others retch, or laugh or join in with the rich tapestry of social signals we share as a species.

But the experts doubt that future analysis of the Thames whale will show high levels of pollutants as this species generally feeds on animals near the bottom of the food chain — such as squid.

And the quality of sleep deteriorates as both species age: the individuals nap more frequently during the day and sleep for shorter periods at night.

One way we do that is to use less as a species.

As the forests of Madagascar and other Edens fall, and as species after species tumbles toward extinction, we all yearn to hold onto the survivors a moment longer — to touch something wild and mysterious before it disappears.

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

By calibrating what scientists call the molecular clock — the hypothesis that mutation occurs at a predictable rate — to the panda separation 12 million years ago, one group of researchers suggests the polar bear's appearance as a species is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

Where he exists in such conditions today, limited in numbers and in the power to aggregate, he continues as a species that lives by virtue of and within the environment.

in the May issue claims that biologists say the concept of race is biologically meaningless, presumably because «any large human population has about 85 percent as much genetic variation as the species as a whole.»

Human encroachment on leatherback nesting sites, in the form of beachfront construction and sand mining, is a major threat to the animals» continuation as a species.

And that is scrambling the delicate balance of many ecosystems, as some species adapt to the change and others don't.

This core knowledge, Spelke says, underlies everything we learn throughout our lives and both unifies and distinguishes us as a species.

The name honors several famous fish scientists who worked at Indiana University, as well as the species's proximity to the university.

TEMPE, Arizona — As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws.

City living is seldom lauded by environmentalists, but it may be our most environmentally friendly trait as a species, because urban dwelling is vastly more efficient than living in the countryside.

As early as 1903, paleontologists began questioning the validity of Brontosaurus as a species.

Major climatic events such as ice ages ought to leave their imprint on life as species adapt to the new conditions.

«We as a species are not exposed to the same germs that we were exposed to in the past,» says study co-author Dennis Kasper, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass..

As a biologist, she recognized the importance of mycorrhizal fungi and contributed to the description of a fungus in the Acaulosporaceae, a fungus in the same phylum as the species described in this paper.

«Yet when you compare us with insects, such as species of mosquitoes, there are a number of measures where we are not the best.»

«As a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theory.

Unless we want to end up as a species ever more dependent on medicines and expensive technologies to cope with the symptoms of preventable diseases, we need to change our environments.

This so - called evolutionary arms race (also known as the Red Queen hypothesis) can be tracked over the eons as each species adapts new strategies to outwit their predators — and / or their own prey — making the dynamic a two - way street.

Others, such as species going extinct and great cities being lost to the seas, are not reversible at all.

If we had evolved as a species with different mating and child - rearing habits — abandoning our children at birth and moving indiscriminately from partner to partner, like most reptiles — it's likely our brains would be incapable of feeling love.

If these groups are truly representative of early humans, then menopause could be at least as old as our species.

Roads break up habitats and block migration routes, but as our species continues to expand, some researchers are asking which is better for wildlife: more traffic on fewer roads or less traffic on more roads?

As the species» population grows and its energy harvesting intensifies, for example, the composition of the planet and its atmosphere may become altered for long timescales.

It's also significant to our human identity, generally, because language is what defines us as a species»

AS A species made up of eukaryotic cells complete with mitochondria, nuclei and other complex structures, it's easy for us Homo sapiens to look down on the far simpler prokaryotes, the cells of which lack such structures.

«As a species we are technologically ready to tackle the carbon and climate problems,» he remarks.

Before we discover if we can survive as a species beyond Earth, we should probably take a few more walks out there.

What Fox forgets to point out, however, is that as a species we have not yet learned to use our individual brains to full capacity.

«The anthropological record indicates that Homo sapiens are identified as a species around 200,000 years ago, so this occurred not very long after the birth of us as a species.

Some birds, such as species endemic to Borneo, are very hard to find and collect, and there's a chance the two projects may wind up competing for DNA from the few samples gathered.

That simple fact helps to fuel our continued success as a species

This huge, dusky object forms a conspicuous silhouette against the bright, starry band of the Milky Way and for this reason the nebula has been known to people in the southern hemisphere for as long as our species has existed.

Treating each tale as a species that mutates over time, they've borrowed techniques from phylogenetics (the study of evolutionary relationships between living organisms) to map stories onto the tree of Indo - European languages.

Within the wildlife conservation community, both in the field -LRB-» in situ») as well as in captive settings -LRB-» ex situ»), there is a great deal of folk knowledge about the best methods for animal care as well as species protection and restoration.

Accidental massive nuclear war and an unexpected asteroid strike — those are the two things that could wipe out the edifice of civilization that we've built up as a species over millennia.