Sentences with phrase «evolution of large body»

Mark Uhen, a paleontologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, adds that the study is the «first real test of the idea that the evolution of large body size in cetaceans is a dietary adaptation.»

Not exact matches

For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor in the global evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.

Evolution on the other hand IS based on a very large body of facts that have been confirmed innumerable times.

«The gradual evolution of smaller and smaller body size would have allowed the bird predecessors to explore novel niches and body plans off limits to their larger relatives,» he says.

This report of secondaries in a larger - bodied, derived, and clearly flightless member of a nonavian theropod clade represented by feathered relatives is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the evolution of feathers.

However, whales of large body size likely arose multiple times in the evolution of sperm whales, and the majority of these large whales also had unusually large upper and lower teeth.

A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than earlier hominin species.

«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»

But in the case of this latest Evolution version, the simulation only car has been sufficiently beefed up with a large rear wing sitting on the rear of the carbonfibre body.

His fourteenth solo exhibition with Pace, this recent body of large scale paintings and works on paper highlight Mangold's continued evolution and mastery of abstract painting.

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is part of a larger body of work of looping short videos, which often employ seductive polished surfaces and floating geometric abstractions rendered in candy - coloured palettes.

Elrod's new body of large - scale paintings are investigations of composition, form and texture informed by the history of abstract painting, perceptual experiments and the evolution of digital technology.

== >»... but they're not parallel when it comes to opinions on the quality of the science, since there's a large body of evidence on that in the climate debate that does not (to my knowledge) exist for the evolution debate.»