Sentences with phrase «changing body size»

Animal species tended to adapt by changing their body size, or moving.

After measuring a sample from the Natural History Museum's worldwide collection of beetles, Professor Stork compared the mean body size with the changing body sizes of British beetles to reveal that roughly 10 per cent of the world's beetles have been named and described.

If you can't migrate to a habitat with better winter food options, it makes sense to simply change your body size.

Not exact matches

The success of pigeons with cases of absolute value may be relevant to Richard Herrnstein's finding that pigeons possess natural concepts of person, wee, and bodies of water, in the sense of recognizing these objects in many different pictures even when the size or angle of the representation is changed or it is mixed with a bewildering variety of other objects (CVPC 550).

If the fundamental laws of connection changed altogether with variations, for instance, in the shape or size of bodies, or if the laws governing the behavior of a complex had no relation whatever to the laws governing the behavior of its parts when belonging to other complexes, there could hardly be a limitation of independent variety in the sense in which this has been defined.

Now Wenger has told him to change his game, gone are the runs and the fight, now he is being forced to play like Giroud, back to goal in a completely new and alien role that is not suited to his body size or physique.

The human body is beautiful and giving birth is a miracle, but I can happily live my life never seeing another woman's belly stretched to ten times it's usual size and how her skin has changed since getting herself knocked up.

True, I would likely never fit into the size zero clothing from college ever again, and my body definitely changed, but I was comfortable in my new mommy body.

You will need to replace nursing bras regularly as your body size will change often, particularly in the early days of feeding.

And when you are an extra size, you need something that could support your changing body.

Three rows of hook - and - eye closures give you total control over the fit and allows you to size down as your body changes shape.

True, I would likely never fit into the size zero clothing from college ever again, and my body definitely changed, but I was very comfortable in my new mommy body.

Most bras are designed to hold a specific shape and size, while a good nursing bra is designed to stretch and shrink to accommodate your body changes.

Each pregnancy I have been in a different size because even if you get back to the same weight your body shape has changed — at least for me.

Having this added size adjustment ensures a better and more comfortable fit as the body changes as well as better overall support.

Comfort: Your rocker should offer plenty of back and head support, give you room to change position easily, and be the right size for your body.

There are pros and cons to all the available options so individual factors such as budget, baby's body size / proportions, who will be changing baby on a regular basis, how many subsequent babies you plan to have, etc will influence your decision.

During pregnancy, hormonal changes begin in a woman's body; as a result breasts are prepared to produce milk and grow in size at the same time.

Various hormonal changes in the body which increase the blood supply in the breasts thus making it larger in size.

When you are 38 weeks pregnant weight gain is quick as your baby during this stage of the pregnancy gains around 28 g per daya The size of the baby around this time is that of a medium watermelono When you are 38 weeks pregnant, the weight gain is seen in the size of your bellyl In fact, around this time, the contour of your belly will change as the belly will drop as a result of your baby turning downwards and getting ready to enter the worldl When you are 38 weeks pregnant, weight gain should be no more than 1 pound from this stage and all other weeks that followo The amount of weight you gain during your pregnancy depends on your BMI (body mass index) prior to the pregnancyc If you are carrying one child the amount of weight gain you should put on is as follows:

There are a wide variety of factors that can cause stretch marks to appear during pregnancy however the most common cause is due to the rapid and significant weight gain during pregnancy as well as the change in the body size of the expecting mother.

Every ten years the lines of public officials, geographically are changed because we are growing in population, but we don't grow in the size of the political body.

Because animals» energetic needs change with body size, the researchers based their calculations for replenishment and reproduction on biological scaling laws that relate body size to metabolism.

A scaling law basically represents how various measurements in a system — say, the bodies of mammals — change proportionally as size changes.

His model took into account both an individual plankton's body size and its metabolism's dependence on temperature to quantify how much energy it takes to fuel all the genetic changes that must occur in order for a new species to emerge.

«It's probably too early to conclude exactly which geochemical changes in the Ediacaran oceans were responsible for the shift to large body sizes, but there are strong contenders, especially increased oxygen, which animals need for respiration.»

«There's just so much in animal ecology, lifestyle and body size that seems to change so dramatically through those levels.»

To be sure, the study used a small sample size and has not yet proved causation, but «if we can train people to sense their interoceptive states,» Tsakiris says, «it might make a change in their body image.

But, he notes, «we saw some fluctuations from wet to dry to wet to dry in these intervals, and the body sizes of these animals aren't changing» in parallel.

Changes in body size, reproduction and metabolism happened quickly, even though the researchers were only choosing birds for tameness.

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

The researchers found that changes in teeth morphology and body size didn't change very much during these periods of rapid speciation.

They discovered that when the ants» body sizes changed, different regions within their eyes increased / decreased in size at different rates.

Evolutionary trends in body size changed during a past mass extinction event [Also see Report by Sallan and Galimbertin]

«Our next step is to find out more about how we can vary the size of the embryoid body by changing the printing and structural parameters, and how varying the embryoid body size leads to «manufacture» of different cell types» adds Rui Yao, another author on the paper.

They analysed the family tree of fish to see how quickly body size changes in each lineage, then noted which lineages are most heavily fished.

Since changes in body size often lead to changes in other ecologically relevant traits, this means that fishing targets the most evolutionarily active groups of fish, Alfaro says.

By careful measurements of the population of two species on one tiny island over the course of major weather changes such as El Niño events and droughts, the Grants were able to show that evolutionary changes in beak size and body size can occur in as little as a couple of years.

Treating mutant mice with growth hormones restored body size and muscle function, but did not significantly change the behaviors associated with the syndrome.

They found that a change in body mass index from overweight to obese (equivalent to an average size adult woman increasing in weight from 150 to 180 pounds) was associated with an increase of about 40 % in the risk of MS.

In dendrites and axons these rapid structural and functional changes occur concurrently — their length, size, shape, and number change to suit the needs of neuronal cell body communication.

An experimental study with size - selectively harvested zebrafish that began in 2006 at the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany reveals that size - selective harvesting causes changes in key life - history traits, leading to low maximum body size and poor reproductive output.

A classic idea says they do, suggesting climate change will alter animal body size.

They also enable us to document body - size changes in species over time as a result of climate change, and to track the increase and spread of some species and the decline and disappearance of others (and no, their decline was not precipitated by collecting them for museums).

«Mammal body - size responds to climate change in ancient Wyoming.»

Artificial selection readily changes the ratio of body size to wing size in butterflies, indicating that the relative sizes of body parts are shaped by selection, not developmental constraints.

This impact will result from warming - induced changes in metabolism (Deutsch et al., 2015) and body size (Cheung et al., 2013) linked to latitudinal or depth shifts in species distributions, in addition to vertical habitat compression from OMZ expansions (Prince and Goodyear, 2006; Stramma et al., 2010, 2012; Yasuhara and Danovaro, 2016).

(A, B) Changing TOR signaling in the fat body affects final body size in females (A) and males (B).

This results in changing IIS activity throughout the entire body, thereby regulating body size.

Weight gain as we age is quite normal and body shape and size can change over our lifetime.