Sentences with phrase «evolutionary processes»

«We sought to investigate the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape coral biodiversity patterns at their southern range limits,» she said.

It's important to document as a way to better understand the evolutionary processes shaping the plant root microbiome.»

A biologist, Schaal was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants and she has worked to advance understanding of plants» molecular systems and population genetics.

However, a lack of traits known to be under direct selection by anthropogenic climate change has limited the incorporation of evolutionary processes into global conservation efforts.

By then crossing the evolved strains, the researchers were able to investigate the complex evolutionary processes involved in developing resistance.

Through the careful study of modern and early fossil tortoise, researchers now have a better understanding of how tortoises breathe and the evolutionary processes that helped shape their unique breathing apparatus and tortoise shell.

The researchers» findings add evolutionary processes, which occur during the course of a range expansion, as determining factors.

Using a sophisticated mathematical simulation model that integrates both ecological and evolutionary processes, the researchers found that sexually selected species can adapt faster to new environments, and are less likely to go extinct.

Evolution is not easy to measure in a field setting, which is why Ruth Hufbauer, a professor in CSU's Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, and her colleagues Christopher Weiss - Lehman and Brett Melbourne, from CU's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum) to observe evolutionary processes in controlled environments.

In the wild, similar evolutionary processes are seen in cane toads, which are invading across Florida and Australia, and may be occurring in other invasions, such as cheat grass in the western United States.

«What this study has shown is that evolutionary processes can increase rates of movement, but also variation in how fast species move, and allow us to get a better sense of where organisms might go in the future.»

Variation in insect diet has implications for numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including effects of environmental disturbance, the stability of networks of interacting species and the top - down effects of predators being controlled by the level of herbivore diet specialization.

«Demographic compensation may buy these endangered populations some precious time for climatic conditions to improve or to allow evolutionary processes to help the plant adapt to unfavorable conditions.»

I think it is reasonable to conclude that cultural evolutionary processes today are gradually replacing one form of coercion with another.

So, like Futuyma, he thinks standard evolutionary processes such as mutation and natural selection still explain all we have discovered.

A comparative analysis of the genomes ofDrosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae — and the proteins they are predicted to encode — was undertaken in the context of cellular, developmental, and evolutionary processes.

The Zombie Power of Botox — Botox uncovers deep evolutionary processes in the brain, paralyzing our emotions just as it paralyzes our faces.

«Until that scale is achieved, we will still be poking around in the dark matter of evolutionary processes.»

To get a better view of how this might occur, the researchers looked at gene activity in the anterior pituitary glands of foxes in a breeding program at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, designed to study the evolutionary processes associated with domestication.

Together, the experiment and genetics show that adaptive radiation, at least in the vial, is due «to the most basic evolutionary processes: simple mutations and natural selection.»

He viewed attachment as a product of evolutionary processes.

One thought that Behe raises is that since Darwinism was first postulated before the discovery of the electron microscope it fails to describe the evolutionary processes necessary for complex systems like sight and blood coagulation to have evolved.

We agree that evolutionary theory is not «totally sewn up» — and Fr Marsden is right to point that out — but it is also to be expected that at some future date the gaps in our knowledge of evolutionary processes may shrink.

And the vast majority of people studying evolutionary processes are not trying to disprove god - they are too busy doing population genetics, DNA extractions and amplifications to debate something that silly.

Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.

I have briefly discussed earlier in this paper the nature of the evolutionary processes which have led from the simpler situations to the more complex ones.

Evolution on the other hand... we are using the evolutionary processes to modify various and assorted genetics, which would not be possible if not for the evolutionary processes.

Simply do your own research and you will find countless industries that use the evolutionary processes and mechanisms to change the way you are living.

In the creation of the world through long evolutionary processes, God has made man «in his own image» — that is, with spiritual qualities akin to those of God.

For we must show the possibility of God's involvement in the emergence of other forms of intelligent life before any claim can be entertained concerning their existential standing before God, and this task invites dialogue with scientific accounts of evolutionary processes.

They claim that scientific theories that ascribe the great role to chance and random events in the evolutionary processes should be replaced, or supplemented, by theories acknowledging the thread of intelligent design in the universe.

In «The Church of Darwin» (June / July), John G. West correctly takes issue with «new atheist» writers such as David Barash and E. O. Wilson, who wish to deny any role for God in evolutionary processes.

These are scientists, theologians and philosophers who consider Darwinian explanations to be appropriate to biology but who can not take evolutionary processes to be the ultimate or final explanation of life and its complexity.

It ended in this form, like you say, through evolutionary processes.

Reason like all evolutionary processes evolves toward maturation, drives toward a critical threshold where it is qualitatively transformed, for all growing realities maintain themselves only by becoming other than themselves.

Hence the argument was peculiarly vulnerable to the new understanding of the evolutionary processes in nature which came to dominance in the nineteenth century.

Remember, only «certain features» are designed, and evolutionary processes are not ruled out.

Evolution in the population of encodings is simulated by means of evolutionary processes; selection, crossover and mutation.

«If sleep is part of the evolutionary process, that [loss] is going to have consequences,» says Colin Shapiro, who runs the University Health Network's Sleep and Alertness Clinic in Toronto.

Making the mental pivot from small - time to big - time is an evolutionary process.

We mortals help push that fast evolutionary process into warp speed in at least two ways.

Maybe if you can start to try to wrap your head around that concept... then you have just started to understand that science will NEVER figure that out and there is no evolutionary process that will ever make us understand... so you are left with only one inference (as you guys like to say)... it is GOD

Again, how can you prove something that would take billions of years to evolve when no one can live long enough to record any data from supposed evolutionary process.

Evolutionist William B. Provine says: «What we have learned about the evolutionary process has enormous implications for us, affecting our sense of meaning in life.»

Whether or not God initiated and developed His creative work through the evolutionary process is of little consequence.

A human fetus goes through the entire evolutionary process in 9 months, from simple multi-cellular life, through amphibian (some children are born with webbing still between their fingers and toes, like a frog), through mammalia and primates (we even have tails, of which the coccyx is a remainder).

Thank you for explaining why it makes complete sense that we don't have direct evidence for every piece of the evolutionary process for every species on the planet.

As phylogenetic analysis becomes increasingly robust, it has become clear that the traditional «Tree of Life» diagram is insufficient to relay the myriad complexities of genomic movement and adaptations in the evolutionary process.

The striving toward definiteness is the goal of evolutionary process.

Morality is PERFECTLY explained simply by the structure of the evolutionary process and the mechanics of social networking..