Sentences with phrase «changing environmental conditions like»

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So, while it may seem like an usually sinister phenomenon, cannibalistic ways appear to be a long - practiced final resort for animals who are trying to hold on in the face of changing environmental conditions.

RHIC was initially the only machine in the world capable of re-creating the environmental conditions and temperature adjustments in which matter can rapidly change forms, just like in the microseconds following the Big Bang.

«Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.

This might have contributed to the savannah - like conditions in Europe, and these environmental changes may have driven the two species to evolve differently.

Such rapid changes can not be explained by pre-existing genetic conditions, but look like influences of environmental conditions.

As scientist Christine Lepisto wrote for TreeHugger in 2014, «Such rapid changes can not be explained by pre-existing genetic conditions, but look like influences of environmental conditions.»

The chemical makeup of the shells of these organisms acts like a time capsule of the environmental conditions they lived in, as changes in the isotopes in their shells paints a picture of the changing pH levels of the ocean.