Sentences with phrase «egg shape across»

And while other factors — like where birds lay their eggs and how many they lay at once — weren't significantly related to egg shape across birds as a whole, they could be important within certain branches of the bird family tree.

Not exact matches

«Our study took a unified approach to understanding egg shape by asking three questions: how to quantify egg shape and provide a basis for comparison of shapes across species, what are the biophysical mechanisms that determine egg shape, and what are the implications of egg shape in an evolutionary and ecological setting,» said senior author, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics at Harvard.»

We showed that egg shapes vary smoothly across species, that it is determined by the membrane properties rather than the shell, and finally that there is a strong correlation linking birds that have eggs that are elliptical and asymmetric with a strong flight ability, the last a real surprise.»

The finding comes from the first large analysis of the way egg shape varies across bird species, from the almost perfectly spherical egg of the brown hawk owl to the raindrop - shaped egg of the least sandpiper.

Across from «Phoenix» is leather, poplar wood, black - grey wool, egg - shaped steel and sawdust made into wheelchair and bin, rough machine and weight.

Not putting your eggs in one basket, rather putting them across many baskets of different shapes and sizes

Cut an egg shape that measures 25 ″ across on the bottom and 20 ″ across on the top.