Sentences with phrase «evolutionary biological study»

A major evolutionary biological study, performed partly by researchers at Uppsala University, reveals what has driven the evolution of new forms of life.

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Stereotypes of older people are being dashed,» says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, who helped facilitate the study, along with social historian Stephanie Coontz and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

Studies on animals with mating or migration patterns that revolve around lunar cycles could also illuminate the underlying biological drivers as well as the evolutionary benefit of having a moon - synced clock.

«In evolutionary terms, all males strive to have as many offspring as they can, but when it comes to reproduction you can't have everything,» said Dr Jacob Dunn, from the University of Cambridge's Division of Biological Anthropology, who led the new study.

The results jibe with a different theory — getting stuck with needles can endanger one's health via infections, so the study supports the evolutionary «handicap» theory that only those with high biological quality can afford such risky behavior.

The study, published in the scientific journal Biological Reviews, concludes that the theory of «fecundity selection» — one of Charles Darwin's three main evolutionary principles, also known as «fertility selection» — should be redefined so that it no longer rests on the idea that more fertile females are more successful in evolutionary terms.

Professor Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences), co-author of the Biological Reviews study, added: «Several previous methodological studies have shown that it is important to include as many species in an evolutionary tree as possible: this generally improves the accuracy of the tree.

The new work addresses what David Puts, a biological anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, calls «one of the most contentious questions in the study of the evolution of human sexuality: whether women's orgasm has an evolutionary function.»

In fact, within academic departments women of different social or professional «ranks» cooperate with each other less well than men do, according to Joyce Benenson, an Associate of Harvard's Human Evolutionary Biology Department and Professor of Psychology at Emmanuel College, Richard Wrangham, the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Henry Markovits, from the University of Quebec at Montreal, the study's co-authors.

The research in his laboratory involves the study of the nature and extent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genetic variation, the biological and evolutionary processes that have produced the observed patterns, and the human genes and their relevant genetic variants that influence susceptibility or resistance to HIV infection.

The present study combines an evolutionary biological framework with state - of - the - art imaging techniques to examine the developmental basis of variation of accessory cusps.

But in a new study published online in Nature Genetics, a research team led by J.J. Emerson, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the Ayala School of Biological Sciences, applies new methods of genome analysis to identify these complex mutations with unprecedented resolution.

In addition to Doñana Biological Station (EBD - CSIC), also taking part in the project were the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG - CRG); the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG); the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO); the Evolutionary Genomics Group of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM); the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC - UPF); the University Institute of Oncology of Asturias (IUOPA); the Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina and the Unit of Cell Culture of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB); the Biological Research Center (CIB - CSIC) and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).

The study's co-authors are William Platt, professor of biology at Louisiana State University, and Louis Gross, director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee.

One consequence of all of this research by TEAM BUFO is that cane toads in Australia have proved to be one of the best biological systems, anywhere in the world, for studies on rapid evolutionary change.

The study lays the foundation for evolutionary biologists studying the three - spined stickleback to be able to better understand the biological processes.

Today, the MDI Biological Laboratory is one of only two research institutions in the world focused on studying regeneration and aging from a comparative and evolutionary perspective — an approach that can be traced back to Dorr.

Helen Fisher, Biological Anthropologist and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University, has served as Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com for several years.

The study of singles in America was funded by Match.com and conducted by MarketTools in association with biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, social historian Stephanie Coontz, evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton Univerevolutionary biologist Justin Garcia and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton UniverEvolutionary Studies at Binghamton University (EvoS).

While Cameron - Weir's new sculptures are informed by her study of historical objects made to protect, punish, or stand in for bodies — medieval armor or torture devices, and early - Renaissance orthopedics — they also reflect her interests in aspects of evolutionary design, such as corporal symmetry and the possibility of biological systems that harbor intelligence and self - awareness.

However, to - date no multispecies study has investigated a biological response to ocean acidification accounting for species evolutionary history and ecology.