Sentences with phrase «diversity of life on the planet»

With a little help from Darwin himself, we're going to learn about natural selection and how it created the astonishing complexity and diversity of life on planet Earth.

To document the vast diversity of life on the planet, photographer David Liittschwager narrowed his focus.

Spanning more than 50 years of collecting, the AUMNH tarantulas provided critical data on variations between tarantula populations and biogeography, «essential elements to understanding how diversity of life on our planet has evolved and become spatially distributed,» Bond told Live Science in an email.

«Climate change is damaging many corals, but it appears to be bypassing certain reefs that support some of the greatest diversity of life on the planet,» Dr. Kleypas said in a news release from the National Science Foundation.

the evolutionary theory is the best explaination for the diversity of life on the planet earth.

There is virtually no question that evolution is the right explanation for the diversity of life on this planet.

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

The possible effect of future change in climate is one of the big unknowns in the future of the diversity of life on the planet.

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the evidence that we are currently within a period of mass extinction, the kind of event that will show up in the fossil record a few million years from now as a clear discontinuity, a radical change in the diversity of life on the planet.

[View Slide Show: Endangered Species Get Iced in Museum DNA Repository] «These resources are really what's necessary for the kinds of biological studies to better understand the diversity of life on the planet,» said George Amato, director of the museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, at the signing.

Likening the earth to an ark carrying millions of species through space, Mason calls on readers to become modern - day Noahs, doing what they can to preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

For the natural history enthusiast there is a huge amount to discover, with a fascinating collection of exhibits from around the world to help you explore, understand and make your own contribution to sustaining the diversity of life on planet earth.

Yep, I said it: probably the only way to save what's left of the diversity of life on this planet is to do something about the ONE species that is screwing it up for all the rest, and I think it is highly unlikely at this point that whatever form that takes will be voluntary.