Sentences with phrase «biological traits»

People who commit suicide appear to share a number of biological traits, regardless of any underlying conditions.

Then researchers took data comparing individuals who have specific biological traits with those who do not to see which traits are associated with which switches.

The basic biological trait is the organism's ability to resist and adapt appropriately to both internal & external stresses.

Historical origin and current function are different properties of biological traits.

Group selection favors biological traits like communication and cooperation that are needed for the group to remain cohesive and powerful.

Most biological traits involve many, many gene - products playing hyper - complex, interdependent, non-additive roles via long intricate processes.

Most biological traits involve many, many gene - products playing hyper - complex, interdependent, non-additive roles via long intricate

For me the scientist, extremely, because if researchers can find highly heritable low - level biological traits, we can start working on finding the genes that affect them.

Good grades don't cause bipolar disorder, but creativity and intelligence could be a reflection of common underlying biological traits, says James MacCabe, an epidemiologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, who led the study.

You are the last word in which biological traits are advantageous in any given environment or situation.

He considers it entirely appropriate for biologists to be concerned not only with how biological traits came about but also with what specific organic features are for, even though most scientists and philosophers of science place questions of purpose outside the realm of research.

Convergent evolution is the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated evolutionary lineages, for example the wing.

In The Anatomy of Violence, Adrian Raine makes a strong case — often based on his own research — that distinct biological traits shape criminal behaviour

Previously, understanding a patient's condition relied on analysis of symptoms and signs, such as lung function measurements and airway hyper - responsiveness, but now clinicians can access information about a range of other underlying complex biological traits, including cellular and molecular traits.

Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.

A growing number of studies show that observed climate - change - induced stresses are mediated by species» biological traits [13], [14].

Optimistic and pessimistic estimates for missing biological trait data are represented by solid and dashed lines respectively.

They assert that the law will not preserve equal rights for all, but instead result in one group of people being treated preferentially based on their lifestyle rather than any inherent biological trait.

Seeking Hidden Potential Identifying an exaptation requires a look back at history, which is not easy to do with most biological traits.

These sorts of low - level biological traits, I suspect, are much more heritable than the highly complex behaviors, like aggression, that we'd really like to understand.

The eukaryotic cell nucleus and large, complex DNA viruses like Mimi share a compelling number of biological traits.

It's merely calculating risk based on wealth and biological traits that indicate physical health and successful breeding potential.

In addition, it should be noted that infants have a biological trait called the bradycardic response.

«Usually, several species of wildlife live in a forest habitat, due to their biological traits like life history, strategy and diet, and their responses to livestock introduction are different too,» said Zhang, who also is an associate professor at China West Normal University.

As science looks more closely, however, it becomes increasingly clear that a pair of chromosomes do not always suffice to distinguish girl / boy — either from the standpoint of sex (biological traits) or of gender (social identity).

Encouraged by the similarity, the team then analyzed these massive data with an evolutionary analysis, treating the statistical traits shared among songs like biological traits.

A new computational method developed by scientists from the University of Chicago improves the detection of genes that are likely to be causal for complex diseases and biological traits.

«Our data show that beak morphology is affected by many genes as is the case for most biological traits.

To address this, we present a framework for assessing three dimensions of climate change vulnerability, namely sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity; this draws on species» biological traits and their modeled exposure to projected climatic changes.

An underappreciated implication of these results is that classical genetic methods we use to study biological traits in model organisms are insufficient to understand the molecular mechanisms controlling biological traits.

Every human being is unique, with peculiar psychological and biological traits that make any process (weight loss included) different from one case to the other.

In evolutionary terms, all evidence shows that men and women alike possess the epigenetic traits (referring to those biological traits that are activated by a person's environment) that foster an innate human capacity to be connected, nurturing caregivers.

Biometric authentication — Requires a person to match his or her biological traits to what has been stored on file, such as a fingerprint or voice