Sentences with phrase «coevolved with»

Some plants have coevolved with nitrogen - fixing bacteria, [7] making plants an important part of the nitrogen cycle.

Miller: To add one thing to what Rob said, we've coevolved with our microbial communities since long before we became Homo sapiens.

The researchers believe the red squirrels acquired defenses against predation, such as better tree - climbing skills, as they coevolved with the pine marten, giving them a leg up on their non-native competition.

The «old friends hypothesis» proposes that the human immune system can not learn to regulate itself without exposure to common pathogens like helminths that have coevolved with people and that modern hygienic practices deprive people of this necessary exposure, possibly explaining the relatively higher and more recent prevalence of immune diseases in industrialized countries like the U.S. Loke plans to continue researching helminthic therapy in people and in monkeys.

19 A virus called HTLV, which has coevolved with humans for thousands of years, is being used to uncover prehistoric migration patterns.

«People wouldn't have become who we are today,» she notes, «if we hadn't coevolved with dogs.»

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's - Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan (Random House) A gardener with a literary bent explores how four plants — the tulip, the apple, the potato, and marijuana — coevolved with humans.

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

And Darwin was explicit in proposing that the traits of the male and the preferences of the female coevolve with one another; that they mutually change with one another over time.

«Although beliefs in MHGs do coevolve with political complexity, [the] beliefs follow rather than drive political complexity,» the researchers say.

Those preferences could coevolve with male traits as opinion in a population changes, one feeding back on the other in a scientifically interesting way, the same way short skirts can come in and out of fashion even though they say nothing about the woman wearer.

If two species interact and coevolve with each other, then their coevolution, in turn, could indirectly affect the future evolution of other species within the web.

Given the relationship between spatial structure and the evolutionary stability of different secretion phenotypes, we might expect surface colonization and adhesion strategies to coevolve with the ability to produce extracellular public goods, as well as toxins.

«She strategically picked an organism to gain insight into early animal evolution and systematically studied it,» said Dianne Newman, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who studies how bacteria coevolve with their environment.

And the future of litigation as we know it is at risk unless law and its practice coevolve with information.

Not exact matches

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

The fish «have had time to counterevolve, or coevolve, factors that allow them to negate the problems associated with poor blood glucose control, fatty livers and insulin resistance,» says Nicolas Rohner, who was a postdoctoral fellow in Tabin's laboratory and now leads his own group at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

The South Hills crossbill coevolved for the past 6,000 years with the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine.

«Basis feedback from our customers we coevolved the product along with PolicyBazaar to cater to their stated needs of protection and growth,» said Deepak Mittal, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Tokio Life.