Sentences with phrase «driven evolution»
That footage is some of the most compelling action in Sharkwater, Stewart's 2006 acclaimed documentary, which explains how the ocean's apex predator has driven the evolution of marine species for over 400 million years and plays a pivotal role in climate stabilization (by feeding on species that eat plankton, which transform carbon dioxide into oxygen).
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For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other.
It's not just about the way that Marvel Studios has driven the evolution of the superhero genre in film, but in how it's given us a set of characters and then consistently provided new adventures for them — for a full decade.
An impressive remake of the first Etrian Odyseey, that adds a lot to the formula, preparing the franchise to a new story - driven evolution.
«Zoosk's Android Wear app is a natural, consumer - driven evolution of our technology.
The researchers believe that many of these paired genes with different functions have driven evolution.
Lauren uses poison frogs as a model for understanding how variation in predation and spatial structure of the environment has driven the evolution of chemical defences and parental behaviors.
This means that insects didn't face the same selective pressure for super smart parents that mammals do, so they didn't get to tap into the positive feedback loop that may have driven the evolution of intelligence in humans.
A major evolutionary biological study, performed partly by researchers at Uppsala University, reveals what has driven the evolution of new forms of life.
Although many different phylogenetic subclusters were present before and after vaccine introduction, some unique clusters were only identified after vaccine introduction, which could be due to natural fluctuation or the first signs of vaccine - driven evolution.
«These selective pressures have driven the evolution of not only their impressive visual camouflage, but, as we just found, also their chemical camouflage.»
The cognitive demands of those social lives, in turn, could have further driven evolution.
«Famine, not calcium absorption, may have driven evolution of milk tolerance in Europeans.»
The intense predation pressure, which could be as high as 80 per cent among birds in habitats where the mourner lives seems to have driven the evolution of complex anti-predatory strategies in the species.
When Antarctica froze over it transformed the ecosystems in the surrounding oceans, and may even have driven the evolution of baleen whales
The need to hop fast in open habitats seems to have driven the evolution of an odd habit in some of Australia's iconic marsupials, they use their tail as a fifth leg
«The idea that social interaction may have facilitated or led to selection for us to be individually recognizable implies that human social structure has driven the evolution of how we look,» said coauthor Michael Nachman, a population geneticist, professor of integrative biology and director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Decades of antibiotic prescriptions — along with rampant use of the drugs on livestock — had driven the evolution of resistant bacteria.
But it's his natural selection - busting theory, which Nei developed in the»80s and expanded on in the 2013 book Mutation - Driven Evolution, that the researcher wants to see embraced, cited and taught in schools.
You've been talking about mutation - driven evolution for more than three decades.
The changes may have driven the evolution of baleen whales, including the blue whale.
Houben believes that the seasonal availability of krill may have driven the evolution of the baleen whales — this type of filter - feeding would have allowed them to take advantage of the annual krill feast.
Indeed, the river almost always flows in the opposite direction: our informal, intuitive notions of cardinality, time, space, and causality in fact drive the evolution of abstractions such as functions, geometric spaces, real numbers, and coordinate systems.
Marking its 76th year as a family owned broadline foodservice distributor, Pocono ProFoods attributes its success to staying true to its founding principles while looking to the future and driving the evolution of the company.
Since GR2E Golden Rice does not possess any introduced or altered resistance to insect pests or diseases, there are no selection pressures that could drive the evolution of resistant pest populations, and no anticipated changes in current pest control practices.
«Newly created genes frequently lost, driving evolution: Mystery solved by recent research.»
The spontaneous appearance and disappearance of genes enables organisms to adapt rapidly to their environment and helps drive evolution.
Its ribs were short and wide as in modern turtles, but the bony plates were absent — hinting that the ribs rather than the skin drove the evolution of the shell.
This work confirmed these suspicions and discovered novel molecular genetic mechanisms driving the evolution of HPV - inactive cancers.
«How gut inflammation drives the evolution of harmful bacteria.»
As this drives the evolution of resistance, Andrew Read at Pennsylvania State University in University Park decided to examine what happened if this selection pressure was removed by only killing elderly mosquitoes that had already laid eggs.
«Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistance.»
That a simple change in the concentration of food could lead to such unusual behavior speaks to how prey density can drive the evolution of new hunting strategies, Cade suggested.
«Our method, NPP, is helpful in the prediction of an individual's future importance because it reconciles the trade - offs between two important principles that drive the evolution of social networks — preferential attachment and triadic closure,» Chawla said.
Some scientists had previously proposed a causal link between the two events: Raining debris from an asteroid breakup (SN: 7/23/16, p. 4) drove evolution by upsetting ecosystems and opening new ecological niches.
A changing environment typically drives evolution.
Your article on the evolution of warm - bloodedness as a means to avoid fungal infection ends with speculation that global warming might drive the evolution of more warm - tolerant fungi, and lead to a raised risk of fungal pathogens in both mammals and birds (3 December, p 50).
TRIBAL COOPERATION Biologist Martin Nowak has identified five mechanisms that drove the evolution of cooperation.
Experts have long suspected that complex social interaction drove the evolution of large brains in humans.
A growing number of examples show that humans not only contribute to the extinction of species but also drive evolution, and in some cases the emergence of entirely new species.
Genetic variation drives evolution by creating a range of phenotypes that might give individuals a competitive edge in different environments.
«Humans artificially drive evolution of new species.»
Among geoscientists, there is still considerable debate about what drives this evolution.
«What drove the evolution of these ginormous flowers?»
Carrie Arnold discusses the idea that symbiotic microbes help drive the evolution of their hosts (12 January, p 30).
Someone on the outside looking in at the debate might say you and other researchers are splitting hairs, that both mutation and natural selection drive evolution.
A nighttime light display on a coral reef in the Florida Keys sparked a study that provides novel insight into the factors that drive the evolution of new species.
The researchers say this range of feather patterns implies that many different feather uses, such as insulation and mating displays, drove the evolution of early plumage.
This unique skill helps them to feed on runny nectar in deep flowers, and it may have helped drive the evolution of the flowers as well.
He has been interested since his postdoctoral days in the early 1990s in the processes that drive evolution.