Sentences with phrase «evolutionary mechanisms»

Men and women present differences that go beyond evolutionary mechanisms of reproduction and species maintenance; social and cultural dimensions are indicated as modeling agents of different configurations of romantic relationships.

It's a basic evolutionary mechanism which should ideally be triggered on a daily basis, but nowadays we're eating non-stop.

Our attachment system is an innate evolutionary mechanism in our brain responsible for keeping infants close to their mother until they are mature enough to survive on their own.

However, areas of low diversity around gene segments might also be produced by other evolutionary mechanisms.

It may be, they say, a novel evolutionary mechanism for organisms to pick up new genes and adapt them for new functions.

«With each new discovery it becomes increasingly clear that the [earliest] mammals had the same evolutionary mechanisms as modern mammals,» he says.

The research team used the so - called oxidative burst — an old evolutionary mechanism to kill off bacteria via defense cells — to study how rat cells responded to changes in gravity.

One school of thought is that jealousy is an adaptive evolutionary mechanism.

W. Brian Arthur and Robert Cailliau both made the argument on your pages that technology progresses through evolutionary mechanisms (22 August, p 26 and 19 September, p 27, respectively).

«This strategy gives us the opportunity to study evolutionary mechanisms in microorganisms.

(4) Descriptions of evolutionary mechanisms also share in the mechanistic and materialistic biases of science — which easily becomes translated into materialism as a world view.

Occasional pockets of intelligent design do not extend to the whole evolutionary mechanism.

«Understanding the underlying evolutionary mechanisms that drive all cancers, not just the devil cancer, will help us understand and treat the disease.»

The technique, called SEWING, is inspired by natural evolutionary mechanisms that also recombine portions of known proteins to produce new structures and functions.

On page 812 of this issue, Sallan and Galimberti (1) show that trends in the body sizes of vertebrates during the Devonian and Mississippian (about 420 to 325 million years ago) not only are markedly different at different times but also likely reflect a variety of different evolutionary mechanisms.

This is distinct from the established evolutionary mechanism of «de novo» genetic mutations that arise by chance after the animal has entered the new environment, which also provide a substrate upon which natural selection can act.

According to the new research, such daily recycles of the infection constitute an active and selective evolutionary mechanism where only the bacterial cells that are best fit for the day and situation will adapt, survive and fortify the chronic infection.

It had been assumed that such lateral gene transfers were uncommon, but their existence in arthropods, the largest animal phylum, suggests that such transfers may be a significant evolutionary mechanism.

This is a highly conserved evolutionary mechanism to make sure that when the cell gets subdivided, the cells at the top will become the head, for example, and the cells in the back may become a gonad.

This clever evolutionary mechanism allows the pathogen to hijack the social communication networks and connect to animals across social groups, where due to territoriality, contact necessary for transmission would not normally be identified.

The data obtained indicates that many of the newly arising mutations found never reach fixation at the population level due to the effect of evolutionary mechanisms such as genetic drift or selection.

Lázaro says the work demonstrates a very important evolutionary mechanism and could have wide - ranging implications, including for human medicine.

Our highly multidisciplinary team of biologists, bioinformaticians, physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians investigates the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms generating Life's complexity and diversity (or maybe should I say «Life's Beauty»).

But evolutionary mechanisms evolve by chance.

... Both parents are fighting a basic evolutionary mechanism that evolved to strengthen the mother / infant and parental bond, not the sexual bond.»

It's an inbuilt evolutionary mechanism that allows you to hunt for food and survive long enough to find your next meal.

Cultural evolution is younger and sub-fields like memetics younger still; we are unlikely to see any definitive answers to cultural evolutionary mechanisms in this century, if not much longer.

Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.

He theorized that the extreme behaviors infants would display (crying, screaming, clinging, etc.) to avoid separation or reconnect with a physically separated parent were actually evolutionary mechanisms, behaviors that were honed over generations to ensure that the protection and care provided by the parent or parents would continue.

Belief in God might be a byproduct of some other evolutionary mechanism.

W. Brian Arthur and Robert Cailliau both made the argument on your pages that technology progresses through evolutionary mechanisms (22...

No evolutionary mechanism can have any power over a cosmic matter if it is entirely passive, less still if it is opposed to it.

The post that I responded to was implying that because an evolutionary mechanism is not or was not fully understood that invalidates evolution.

Now you and I may disagree as to whether this is an evolutionary mechanism to protect and perpetuate our species or where it was instilled in our souls by God.

The acceptance of punctuated equilibrium put to death the then prevailing thought that gradual change was the evolutionary mechanism of speciation (Darwinian phyletic gradualism, which had held sway for > 100 years, was utterly debunked)

Being able to «look» at 100 million - year - old genomes will now allow us to deepen our knowledge about genomes as well as about the evolutionary mechanisms that lead to diversifying and acquiring new function.

The findings could provide insight into the evolutionary mechanisms affecting cognitive traits in a range of animals.

«By comparing an extremely innovative species like the Barbados bullfinch with a closely related conservative one like the black - faced grassquit, we gain insight into the evolutionary mechanisms that can lead to divergence in behavior,» Audet says.

In this study, researchers analyzed the evolutionary mechanism of sex chromosomes, and reported that the alligator was the first TSD species whose genome has been sequenced, which will have great implication in resolving sex chromosome evolution.

Studies show that CR causes animals to live longer, possibly as an evolutionary mechanism to let them reproduce late in life after a food shortage has ended.

Diseases that jump from other vertebrate hosts to humans are a major public health threat, but the evolutionary mechanisms behind these jumps are poorly understood.

The fact that rats show generalized reciprocity hints that an evolutionary mechanism is involved, the researchers say.