Sentences with phrase «evolutionary studies»

We were further interested in developing this group as a biological model for evolutionary studies.

This seminar covers topical issues in the field of human evolutionary studies.

The experiment will also serve as a model for future evolutionary studies.

added Berger, who is a researcher in the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Generally, credible scientists will base conclusions on what a significant portion of the evidence suggests, not based on the outlier data which is presented in evolutionary studies.

Mice are common subjects for evolutionary studies of mammals because they breed quickly and a biologist can follow many generations in the span of one's career.

Comparative evolutionary studies indicate that human infants are poorly neurologically developed at birth, and thus require close physical contact for safety, physiological regulation and frequent feeding.

Evolutionary studies indicate that the genetic changes enabling a cancer to develop arise shockingly early within the primary tumor.

Buller doesn't reject evolutionary studies of the mind per se.

Some time between 250 and 140 million years ago, the very first flower bloomed — an enormous evolutionary study offers clues about its appearance

In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric cave art.

Up to now, many evolutionary studies of this kind have been quite circumstantial, but we have been able to identify times of intensive evolution using objective, numerical methods.»

«Largest evolutionary study of sponges sheds new light on animal evolution.»

Pagel helped pioneer the integration of mathematics and statistics with evolutionary studies.

White and his colleagues note that «surprisingly few» comprehensive evolutionary study systems have been described, although the number is growing.

In an attempt to answer the question of whether genes that show high levels of variability across different species could also be useful in population - level evolutionary studies, scientists in Brazil, Singapore, and the United Kingdom teamed up to test the utility of numerous genes previously found to be useful in inferring relationships of cactus species.

Today, many ecological and evolutionary studies depend on a wide range of molecular tools to infer phylogenetic relationships, uncover population structure within species, and track quantitative traits.

Comparisons of these emergent species and other pathogenic fungi will enable evolutionary studies, revealing, for instance, fungal genes that are conserved or under selection and which could be important for drug resistance and virulence.

While many evolutionary questions can be answered by short read re-sequencing, presence / absence polymorphisms of genes and / or transposons have been largely ignored in large - scale intraspecific evolutionary studies.

Evolutionary studies suggest that the first identifiable members of the dog family, Canidae, appeared about 40 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, with today's modern wolf appearing nearly two million years ago.

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Professor Mark Collard from Canada's Simon Fraser University has been leading the University's Human Evolutionary Studies Program where a research team has been looking at ways in which climate change can impact human evolution.

The team lays out fossils of H. naledi at the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies Institute.

«The differences between stars and animals is immense, but they share the property of changing over time, and so both can be analysed by building trees of their history,» says Professor Robert Foley, of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at Cambridge.

«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

«Conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies since has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools was linked to the emergence of the genus Homo, and this technological development was tied to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands,» says Dr. Lewis, a Research Assistant Professor at TBI.

@SpringBranch - It's completely irrational of you to expect some random, unknown poster to educate you on the century of evolutionary study.

Later, as a postdoc at the nearby Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, a natural science - oriented center with a multidisciplinary focus, she started bringing together the two sides of her education.

EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposable elements in the human genome.

Kimi Chapelle, a PhD student at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits), has used the Wits MicroFocus CT facility to peer inside the skull of the dinosaur Massospondylus.

What about the famous «beak of the finch» evolutionary studies of the 1970s?

For many years it remained hidden among the largest fossil collection in South Africa at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University.

The new method could unlock a wealth of untapped chloroplast genome sequence data that can be applied to evolutionary studies.

The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the intuitively attractive, almost irresistible idea that the whole great process leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessors.

«This approach, termed DiceCT, can be widely applied, not just for evolutionary studies but also as a powerful tool for biomedical investigations of brain development in disease, congenital defects, or injury,» she said.

Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, CB2 1QH, UK.

«Further studies are needed to confirm and expand the repertoire of local regulators of bone growth, adding valuable insights to evolutionary studies and providing avenues for therapies that can correct long bone growth defects.»

Lead author Dr Tyler Lyson of Wits University's Evolutionary Studies Institute, the Smithsonian Institution and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science said: «Tortoises have a bizarre body plan and one of the more puzzling aspects to this body plan is the fact that tortoises have locked their ribs up into the iconic tortoise shell.

«Named in 1892, Eunotosaurus is one of the earliest tortoise ancestors and is known from early rocks near Beaufort West,» said Professor Bruce Rubidge, Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University and co-author of the paper.

Gess did the research whilst he was completing his PhD at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Trends in body size are a rich source of information for evolutionary studies.

«We now know more about the genetic basis for our evolutionary studies, and this is a highly satisfactory, very exciting discovery after all these years,» said Peter Grant, Princeton's Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, emeritus.

Now, two evolutionary biologists say they've found a better way to estimate DNA mutation rates, at least for mammals, a result that should give new precision to evolutionary studies.

Community and Conservation Ecology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies (CEES), University of Groningen, Post Office Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, Netherlands.