Sentences with phrase «evolutionary adaptation»

During this long history of evolutionary adaptation, human beings slowly evolved mechanisms and practices for childbirth.

The evidence for evolutionary adaptation to ocean acidification comes mainly from two approaches.

They respond to their environment by progression towards next developmental stages, by evolutionary adaptation, by malignant growth or eventually by death.

They're all slightly different, each with its own evolutionary adaptations such as a shorter tail or a longer nose.

The cat's body has many specific evolutionary adaptations to its expected diet of prey consisting mostly of protein, fat and moisture.

Identifying evolutionary adaptations to these problems and likely paths to them required the team to build two sets of data.

It's one of the most bizarre evolutionary adaptations I've seen in the years I've been covering film.

The horizontal axis corresponds to evolution time and the vertical axis to the population's degree of evolutionary adaptation.

«Even though the experiment was conducted under laboratory conditions, it clearly shows the high potential for evolutionary adaptation in an oceanic microbe such as Emiliania huxleyi,» Lothar Schlüter, first author and PhD student at GEOMAR, points out.

In short, what about the alternative theories, other than the theory that these forms of behavior arise in some direct manner from evolutionary adaptations in some undefined EEA?

Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears.

The «more primitive elements of animal consciousness — palpable hunger and thirst, fear and rage, pleasure and pain — are as clearly evolutionary adaptations to an ever more elaborate ecosystem as fur and feathers, toes and digits, eyes and ears.»

Staff from the Conservators» Center of Mebane will show off a serval on the plaza and discuss the advantages that the cat has gained through evolutionary adaptations.

Changes in a single color - vision gene demonstrate convergent evolutionary adaptations in widely separated species and across vastly different time scales, according to a study publishing on April 11 in the open access journal PLOS Biology by David Marques of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and colleagues.

If so, the selection of food sources by honeybees indicates an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation for colony success through partnership between two interacting organisms.

Rapid development is a common evolutionary adaptation for species faced with high mortality.

But to make it work, we must first understand the wondrous evolutionary adaptations of the natural world.

When the mitochondrial translation rate increases, the mTOR signaling pathway is activated, which causes the increase in the cytoplasmic protein translation rate to counteract pressure from the increased mitochondrial translation, thus representing a new evolutionary adaptation mechanism.

The first views religion as a «byproduct» of other evolutionary adaptations such as larger brains.

«Although Charles Darwin laid out his theory of evolutionary adaptation more than 150 years ago, this aspect has long been neglected in the context of ocean change.»

Could the novel evolutionary adaptations of animals like the Galapagos tortoise and the Komodo dragon actually leave these species more vulnerable to extinction?

Ketosis is a totally normal evolutionary adaptation for times when food was not quite as plentiful and available as it is now.

More important is what fuel you eat, especially the digestibility and availability of the caloric content within it, because our biggest evolutionary adaptation is being omnivores.

MORRIS, J.G. Idiosyncratic nutrient requirements of cats appear to be diet - induced evolutionary adaptations.

Her work imagines, for humans specifically, how radical evolutionary adaptations can be advantageous to survive in an altered climate.

Del Giudice's model belongs among those that highlight the role of adaptive developmental plasticity in human reproductive strategies; but at least three other forms of evolutionary adaptation also influence reproductive behavior.

Thanks to that little ol' evolutionary adaptation called LOVE, you're hard - wired to vigilantly assess the quality of connection between you and the person you feel most bonded to.

Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher, who studies the brain circuitry of romantic love, says millions of years of evolutionary adaptation account for a couple's divergent sexual interests after kids are born.

The most serious attempt yet to integrate evolutionary adaptation, developmental universals, and cultural variation in attachment and caregiving behaviors.»

«The results suggest that many evolutionary adaptations can be traced back to random mutations.

«We think all result from evolutionary adaptations to a stressful environment.»

About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.

Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears Liu, S., E. D. Lorenzen, M. Fumagalli, B. Li et al. 2014.

It has therefore been long suspected that vampire bats have highly specific evolutionary adaptations, which would be documented in their genome, and most likely also have an unusual microbiome, the community of micro-organisms assembled in their digestive tract which may help with the digestion of blood.

As evolutionary adaptations to ecological circumstances, our states of awareness are causally dependent on those circumstances.

Shaman Durek is an author, activist, and women's empowerment leader who focuses his practice specifically on helping people learn how to make shamanism a lifestyle choice for evolutionary adaptation.

Through Exultant Ark Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that, although much of animal behaviour has come about as the result of evolutionary adaptation to serve a straightforwardly practical function, there are elements of play that require a more joyful explanation.

S - e-x is an evolutionary adaptation to the advantage in exchanging DNA, so far known only on planet Earth.

Whether this is an evolutionary adaptation is a different matter.

This evolutionary adaptation comes to a climax when it is universal in its sympathies and tolerant of every particular religious tradition by virtue of the «Unconditioned» that comes to expression in all religions.

but i'm not convinced by you or any one else here who is calling me stupid for thinking that an atheist would have a hard time defending a particular value / ethic as anything more than an evolutionary adaptation.

And evolutionary adaptations are neither good nor bad, only useful or not useful for a given time and place.

Other Darwinists have argued that rape and inner «city teenage pregnancy are evolutionary adaptations.

Yes, it's natural, yes, we have physiological and evolutionary adaptations to make it easier on us, but we lack so much of the social support that once existed in the days of villages and clans that enabled nursing moms A) to be familiar with what breastfeeding was like before they had their babies, and B) ask any number of peers and role models to physically help them out.

I'm pretty sure their cuteness is an evolutionary adaptation to ensure that we raise them to adulthood.

The following posts support infant carrying as an evolutionary adaptation and a biological imperative, as well as highlighting areas that need more research.