Sentences with phrase «early evolution»

Being more specific, we are focused on early evolution, which is a fascinating but very incomplete field.

It only takes a few generations for snowflake lab yeasts to adopt distinct lifestyles — a great leap forward in early evolution of life

We delighted in early evolutions of the Focus, especially the SVT - tuned hatchback that posed a credible threat to its competitors.

This is because a significant role of such resonances in the development of neutron stars and in the synthesis of elements during early evolution stages of the Universe after the Big Bang.

These mass die - offs could have shaped early evolution, says planetary scientist Kevin Zahnle.

Bryan Small, a research associate at Texas Tech University, discovered two caecilian fossils from the late Mesozoic Era in the 1990s in Eagle County, Colorado, but these fossils had reduced limbs and resembled the caecilians of today, leaving questions about the amphibians» early evolution unanswered.

I think we can shed a lot of light on early evolution of our own use of language by studying the vocalisation of animals that are socially and behaviourally similar to us, if not necessarily taxonomically closely related.»

Like a lot of the island fauna, says Fisher, it opens a window on early evolution.

I believe in the early evolution of crowdfunding, cannibalization of investment from this group through private placement or offering memorandum will be disguised as crowdfunding to demonstrate the success and adoption rate of crowdfunding.

The earlier evolution of evangelicalism out of fundamentalism and its current atavistic tendencies back toward fundamentalism represent a striking illustration of Ernst Troeltsch's notions of sect - to - church - to - sect development (The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches [Macmillan, 1931]-RRB-.

A few knocks and time spent in the treatment room hasn't helped his early evolution as a Gunner, and honestly the majority of his recents starts have seen him feature on the wings rather than manning the front line.

«This has pretty big implications for how we understand the early evolution of dinosaurs.»

Fossil scales illuminate the early evolution of lepidopterans and structural colors.

The finding could help narrow down when our planet's massive tectonic plates first started jostling with each other, which may have provided a crucial backdrop for life's early evolution.

They provide a crucial view of Earth's earliest evolution of multicellular life, which scientists now think started millions of years earlier than previously thought.

In «Evolution of the Eye,» Trevor Lamb draws together multiple lines of evidence to create a persuasive narrative for the early evolution of the vertebrate eye.

The two possible solutions have very different consequences for our understanding of central aspects of the early evolution of multicellular animals (Metazoa), such as the origins of nervous systems, tissues and organs.

However, recent modeling of the early evolution of the internal temperature of the planet, together with geochemical studies of the composition of the oldest carbonatites and basalts, do not support such cooling.

Planck scientists plan to strip out those local features to get an even clearer picture of the early evolution of the cosmos.

«The latter scenario would require a wholesale reassessment of the early evolution of animals.»

«No one has really been thinking about the early evolution of flowers in this way, yet so much is easily explained by the new scenario that emerges from our models.»

The results shed new light on the early evolution of flowers as well as major patterns in floral evolution across all living flowering plants.

Tetrapod World: early evolution and diversification (TW: eed) re-created the environments these distant relatives called home.

No one knows exactly how this happened, and the origin and early evolution of flowering plants and especially their flowers still remains one of the biggest enigmas in biology, almost 140 years after Charles Darwin called their rapid rise in the Cretaceous «an abominable mystery.»

«This is the first time that we have a clear vision for the early evolution of flowers across all angiosperms.»

The extinction of the dinosaurs allowed our distant mammalian ancestors to start foraging during the day for the first time — and shaped our early evolution

«Mysterious new seafloor species sheds light on early animal evolution: A new species of the enigmatic marine worm Xenoturbella, dredged from the seafloor of the western Pacific, contributes to understanding of the early evolution of the Bilateria.»

The researchers also reconstructed what flowers looked like at all the key divergences in the flowering plant evolutionary tree, including the early evolution of monocots (e.g., orchids, lilies, and grasses) and eudicots (e.g., poppies, roses, and sunflowers), the two largest groups of flowering plants.

If he is correct, our understanding of the early evolution of dinosaurs will need rewriting.

«This study takes an important step» toward resolving why horses shed digits during their early evolution, says Karen Sears, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA.

Such «whole genome duplications» are now known to be surprisingly widespread; for instance, we know that whole genome duplications were important in the early evolution of vertebrates (our own genomes bear the hallmarks of two separate ancient whole genome duplication events) and that it is a very common phenomenon in plants, especially cultivated ones such as wheat.

The specimen demonstrates the unique contribution of the fossil record towards understanding the early evolution of animals during the Cambrian period.

This technique has also allowed him to observe extremely ancient galaxies, charting the early evolution of the universe.

Some think that data could help scientists refine their understanding of Saturn's origins and early evolution.

Insight into the early evolution of the avian sternum from juvenile enantiornithines.

The article published on the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution provides the framework for posing new hypotheses on the phylogenetic relations among poriferans, determining gene function in sponges and the early evolution of molecular complexity in metazoans.

The early evolution of snakes happened from surface - terrestrial to burrowing in the lizard - snake transition suggests a research group at the University of Helsinki.

«Shedding light on Earth's first animals: Complex and highly regulated development of Dickinsonia, one of the oldest fossil animals, broadens our understanding of early evolution.»

A speculative form of dark matter could have a surprising effect on the universe's early evolution — making gravitational waves from the big bang easier to see

The skeleton of the South African reptile Eunotosaurus africanus fills a gap in the early evolution of turtles and their enigmatic shell.

There is evidence, for example, that early evolution was driven by forces very different to those we usually associate with natural selection.

The study helps place Dickinsonia in the early evolution of animal life, and showcases how the large, mobile sea creature grew and developed.

Building from a bachelors degree in zoology (Oxford), a Masters» degree in computer science (University of York), and a Ph.D. in genetics (Cambridge University), his personal research focuses upon the earliest evolution of life on our planet.

The new species gives important additional information on the early evolution of coelacanths.

Although that approach has been successfully used to decipher relations between organisms, calibrating it to measure the time elapsed since the divergence of phylogenetic branches is problematic; concerning the early evolution of life, there is no generally accepted approach.

This discovery challenges the fundamentals of echinoderm evolution with respect to end - Permian survival and sheds new light on the early evolution of the modern clades, in particular on Triassic ghost lineages of the crown - group look - alikes of the Paleozoic hangovers.

«Fossils such as this are allowing scientists to dissect the most intricate aspects of the early evolution of the flight of birds.»

«The Moon's fossil bulge may contain secrets of Earth's early evolution that were not recorded anywhere else,» said Shijie Zhong, a professor in CU Boulder's Department of Physics and the co-lead author of the new research.

Many of the papers in the book reflect the enormous impact of molecular biology on the study of early evolution.