Sentences with phrase «evolution of complex life»

«Ocean toxicity hampered the rapid evolution of complex life.»

The very laws of physics, let alone the evolution of complex living creatures, are built upon the basis of natural order, of pre-definition of one form of life to another.

In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.

Oxygen is supposed to have driven the evolution of complex life — but the discovery of animals that thrive without it tells a different story

«Understanding the history of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is intimately connected to understanding the evolution of complex life.

In the crowded central regions of the galaxy, home to large numbers of massive stars, supernovas are so common that the evolution of complex life - forms might be difficult if not impossible.

«The amount of habitable time on a planet is very important because it tells us about the potential for the evolution of complex life - which is likely to require a longer period of habitable conditions.

This particular example is the oldest known example of oxidative weathering from a terrestrial environment, occurring about 600 million years before the Great Oxidation Event that laid the foundations for the evolution of complex life.»

The unique temperature conditions of hydrothermal vents like this one could have favored the evolution of complex life.

Scientists know that eventually, these RNA chains must have become longer and longer, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life forms like amoebas, worms, and eventually humans.

To figure out if hydrothermal vents could have given the evolution of complex life a boost, Braun and his colleagues examined the physics of a theoretical single pore in the rock surrounding a vent.

One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the Evolution of Complex Life By John Archibald.

«After that change, the Earth became much more habitable and suitable for the evolution of complex life, but that needed some trigger mechanism, and that's what we may have found.»

She suggests rock pores hotter on one side than the other could result from solar, as well as hydrothermal, heating, expanding the types of environments that could have favored the evolution of complex life.

In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from SciLifeLab / Uppsala University presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.

Overall, the data produced by the researchers supports the idea that the evolution of complex life on other worlds is relatively rare across our galaxy, but still extremely large in terms of absolute numbers.

The index doesn't represent an absolute statistical prediction of whether complex life could be present on a planet; rather, it can be used to estimate the relative likelihood of life having evolved there, based on the conditions that we know are compatible with the evolution of complex life forms on a planet, and assuming that no further information is available.