Sentences with phrase «early evolution of»

The confirmation represents a fascinating twist in the early evolution of the new technology.

While a lot of the early evolution of dog breeds is a result of the environments dogs migrated to and through, most of today's modern breeds bear the touch of man's artistic brush.

So the research suggests that in the early evolution of vertebrates, one key to survival was the recognition of the presence of other animals that could be harmful, or could be harvested.

They show the early evolution of a filmmaker who was about to make his most widely acclaimed work.

Previous infrared missions, from IRAS to Herschel, have revealed a great deal about the obscured... ▽ More Measurements in the infrared wavelength domain allow us to assess directly the physical state and energy balance of cool matter in space, thus enabling the detailed study of the various processes that govern the formation and early evolution of stars and planetary systems in galaxies over cosmic time.

NEW YORK — The skull of a newly discovered 325 - million - year - old shark - like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates — including humans — than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.

Nichols, S. A., Dirks, W., Pearse, J. S. & King, N. Early evolution of animal cell signaling and adhesion genes.

Although the diversity of sponges and their uncertain phylogeny make it doubtful that any single species can reveal the intricacies of early animal evolution, comparison of the A. queenslandica draft genome with sequences from other species can provide a conservative estimate of the genome of the common ancestor of all animals and the timing and nature of the genomic events that led to the origin and early evolution of animal lineages.

Comparative analysis enabled by the sequencing of the sponge genome reveals genomic events linked to the origin and early evolution of animals, including the appearance, expansion and diversification of pan-metazoan transcription factor, signalling pathway and structural genes.

His research originally focussed on understanding the early evolution of the arthropods, and now studies the origins of the animals from both palaeontological and developmental perspectives.

afarensis and is a key piece of evidence for the early evolution of the uniquely human way of walking,» says Kimbel.

2012: John Chambers, for his contribution to the field of «Formation and early evolution of the solar system»

Ramdarshan, A. & Orliac, M. J. Endocranial morphology of Microchoerus erinaceus (Euprimates, Tarsiiformes) and early evolution of the Euprimates brain.

This system offers a unique opportunity to explore the early evolution of germ cells.

Qingmendous, a 409 million - year - old predatory fish provides unique insights into the early evolution of modern lobe - finned fishes.

The early evolution of high - mass stars is similar; the only difference is that their faster overall evolution may allow them to reach the main sequence while they are still enshrouded in the cocoon of gas and dust from which they formed.

The Mars Exploration Program studies Mars as a planetary system in order to understand the formation and early evolution of Mars as a planet, the history of geological processes that have shaped Mars through time, the potential for Mars to have hosted life, and the future exploration of Mars by humans.

Astronomers have identified powerful radio - emitting galaxies that existed when the universe was only one tenth its present age These objects offer a glimpse at the early evolution of giant galaxies

If oxygen was a driver of the early evolution of animals, only a slight bump in oxygen levels facilitated it, according to a multi-institutional research team that includes a Virginia Tech geoscientist.

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.»

Reaggregation of marine sponges» cells helped the scientists to come closer to understanding of the origin and early evolution of multicellular animals.The work was published in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology.

The results may also help shed light on what conditions were like during the early evolution of life on Earth.

Hedges adds that because these fungi share more genes with animals than with plants, comparisons will help «help understand the early evolution of animals» as well.

True crabs as a group are comparably young, starting to diversify only about 100 million years ago (mya), with a dramatic increase in species richness beginning approximately 50 mya — though the early evolution of crabs is still very incompletely known.

A new species, Chongmingia zhengi, reported in the journal of Scientific Reports on 25 January 2016, sheds light on the early evolution of birds.

The unique combination of features present in this species demonstrates that numerous evolutionary experimentations took place in the early evolution of powered flight.

By going to Pluto we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.

As a result, the planet has shrunk in size over billions of years because of the same processes that shaped the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere and very likely that of both Mars and Venus.

What New Horizons finds should add significantly to our understanding of the early evolution of Earth and the other members of the solar system.

The findings could also help to address basic questions about the early evolution of life, Arnold says, and in particular whether its disdain of silicon was happenstance or not.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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-.

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.

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.

«It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever, and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses,» said George Poinar, Jr., an internationally recognized expert on the life forms found in amber and a faculty member in the OSU College of Science.

«It may be that the earlier evolution of these features gave tyrannosaurs the perfect toolkit that came in handy when the opportunity presented itself for them to rise to the top of the food chain.»