Sentences with phrase «comparative evolutionary studies»
«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.
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Comparative evolutionary studies indicate that human infants are poorly neurologically developed at birth, and thus require close physical contact for safety, physiological regulation and frequent feeding.
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The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.
The study adds to a growing list of animals, including dogs, chimpanzees, and monkeys, that are sensitive to what others can see and hear, notes Juliane Brauer, a comparative psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
«Our study provides an example of the utility of comparative genomics and evolutionary models for medicine,» Sunyaev said.
«These were questions that were un-askable until very recently,» said Stephen Freeland, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who has run theoretical studies on the comparative fitness of the genetic code.
The lab's goal is to develop computational approaches to study phenotype - genotype associations using the power of comparative and evolutionary genomics, followed by experimental verifications.
The comparative study of spiral cleavage was one of the cornerstones of evolutionary thinking back in the late 19th Century.
Yet many questions remain opened, and the comparative, evolutionary study of spiralian development arises as one of the most fascinating research fields.
Today, the MDI Biological Laboratory is one of only two research institutions in the world focused on studying regeneration and aging from a comparative and evolutionary perspective — an approach that can be traced back to Dorr.
To study such effects, the Comparative Genomics group employs computational and evolutionary approaches to analyze whole genome datasets for predicting genomic, epigenetic and expression differences between individuals.