Sentences with phrase «different adaptation of»

Here an x-rayed pyramidal matrix of wooden pallets and crates reaches up to the ceiling in an uneven and slapdash fashion, reminiscing a conceivably different adaptation of the Babel Tower; it has been abandoned incomplete, unfulfilling a collective utopian desire.

Nintendo just released the first 3D handheld in the history of gaming with the 3DS, and while it uses a different adaptation of 3D, it has sold reasonably well, possibly increasing interest in 3D technology.

Not exact matches

OpenView Venture Partners illustrates a different kind of adaptation.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Well, that's different than «zero evidence of any later adaptation..».

Conceived as we now conceive them, as so many fortunate escapes from almost limitless processes of destruction, the benevolent adaptations which we find in Nature suggest a deity very different from the one who figured in the earlier versions of the argument.

along certain prescribed lines (reduction or adaptation of limbs, complication of teeth, increased specialization as carnivores or herbivores, runners, burrowers, swimmers, flyers, etc.); and secondly dispersive, since the different phyla separated at certain points of proliferation, certain «knots» which we may suppose to be periods of particularly active mutation.

Lincoln wrote, «In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

It adapts, and I do believe Christians can see and believe in adaptation as it occurs every day, but is entirely different from billions or millions of years of one species evolving into another, with a supposed start of a non-living or non-traceable thing.

These are part of metamodels of language, such as the Thesaurus model which has a mathematical structure, but this is different from bare language awareness, which is an adaptation to hearing in time.

The adaptation of the gospel to television is no different: there needs to be a clear and impartial analysis of the message and practices of those programs and organizations that call themselves Christian in order to determine how they stand in relation to the historic tenets of the Christian faith.

Instead, he argued from a mass of evidence collected in different parts of the world, that «species» had originated by natural selection, by adaptation to the environment and by gradual evolution.

Even if Noah impregnated all of them at once, or his sons did their respective wives, and then they all repeated the process 14 years later (give or take) when the 1st offspring became fertile, how could different races with distinct physiological adaptation arise from such a small, virtually identical gene pool 4,000 years ago?

This recipe is an adaptation of one by Bevan Smith of Riverstone Kitchen (one of my favourite restaurants) and is a dashingly different way to appreciate all those delicious grapes that are ripening all over the country as we near the autumn harvest.

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My vodka sauce actually started out years ago as an adaptation of the Rachael Ray sauce, but has since evolved into something different.

We find that geographic subregions that have frequencies of major environment types substantially different from that for the entire production region show greatest advantage for specific adaptation.

This is an adaptation of a previous smoothie recipe, Lemon and Sorrel Green Smoothie, with lime instead of lemon and shredded coconut and coconut yoghurt added for a different...

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

Additional research on these topics can provide guidance and tools for promoting successful implementation of evidence - based home visiting and adaptation of program models to different populations and contexts.

In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatures.

«The selective sweeps we identified may be the basis for local adaptation for different populations of birch,» Salojärvi says.

But A. deyiremeda and its neighbors do indicate that hominins with ape - size brains had developed successful adaptations to different environments, says the study's lead author Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

These adaptations include the massive and rapid expansion of gene families that produce venom toxins, providing the snake with a highly toxic protein mixture required to overcome a variety of different prey and also circumvent any resistance to venom that may have developed in such prey.

«It enables us to not only predict the effectiveness of growing different crops and other adaptations but also how human societies can evolve and impact their environment.»

Synchrotron X-ray imaging on different species showed that the transmission of the sound from the oral cavity to the inner ear has been optimized by two evolutionary adaptations: a reduced thickness of the tissue between the mouth and the inner ear and a smaller number of tissue layers between the mouth and the inner ear.

3 The adaptation of trapping and digesting prey has arisen at least nine times in different plant families in response to soil lacking the nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

According to an extensive genomic study, the two types of population result from tens of thousands of years of adaptation to their different environments.

It is apparent that the genetic differentiation of the two populations proves to be ancient and is the result of tens of thousands of years of adaptation to their different environments.

Weis celebrates crabs» many adaptations to deal with different depths, temperatures, salinity and oxygen levels both in and out of the sea.

The researchers carried out fine - scale mapping, looking for parts of the DNA sequence that were specifically different in butterflies with different patterns, in three different Heliconius species, and in each case the cortex gene was found to be responsible for this adaptation in their patterning.

After all, the brown bear that is its closest living relative lacks all of these adaptations, looks different, eats different food and would not fare well in the harsh conditions out on the Arctic ice.

To determine whether populations have evolved local adaptation, Colautti and University of Toronto professor Spencer Barrett collected seeds from three different climatic regions and grew them at three sites spanning the distribution of the species in eastern North America.

This revealed adaptation to depth at functional genes, with all of the 1,800 m fish different from the others that lived at shallower depths.

First, locally adapted strains are likely to suffer higher mortality when they are moved to very different conditions — local adaptation is a product of directional selection such that adapting to one environment is likely to reduce performance in another environment (5, 6).

This raises the question of whether these bunodont teeth were inherited by all otters from a common ancestor, or evolved independently in different otter lineages over time because of the evolution of similar adaptations to thrive in similar environments.

In the current issue of the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, Michigan State University researchers and their collaborators found that plant adaptation to different environments involves tradeoffs in performance.

Whereas increasing genetic variability in a population, and increasing the proportion of adapted genotypes might facilitate rapid adaptation, mixing very different populations can lead to unexpected and deleterious outcomes (10).

«They are remarkable for their diversity of traits and adaptations, many of them evolving in parallel in different species.»

«Environmental changes would have produced a lot more fragmented, mosaic - type ecosystems, where populations of horses with similar demands and adaptations could have evolved isolated from one another, resulting in different species but with a similar appearance,» points Manuel Hernández Fernández at the Complutense Univerity in Madrid.

Convergent evolution, is when the same adaptations have evolved independently in different lineages of species under similar selection pressures.

The studies also allowed the team to pinpoint patterns of evolutionary change in the genes of these viruses, reflecting their adaptation to different kinds of mammalian hosts.

«By adaptation, we mean a range of options based on existing technologies, such as switching varieties of a crop, installing irrigation or growing a different crop, one better suited to warmer temperatures,» said Lobell, the associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

«Shady and I and many Andeanists would look at Peru — not just in the preceramic but in later adaptations — as being different from most other trajectories of civilization,» he says.

Mountain chickadees from different elevations sing different songs: acoustic adaptation, temporal drift or signal of local adaptation?

«And shrimp are a great test case for evolution because you can find different species all over the world living at various depths and with a range of adaptation requirements.»

Geographical variation in song dialect may reflect acoustic adaptation to different environments and / or serve as a signal of local adaptation.

It attempts to provide a single rationale for a huge range of adaptations — which we know arose at different times in the course of human evolution.