Sentences with phrase «evolutionary terms»

The recovery took just 300,000 years, a short time in evolutionary terms.

I guess I've started to see political, religious, economic, and social aspects of our world in very evolutionary terms - it works, but nature is cruel.

Many efforts have been made to describe modern religion in broad evolutionary terms.

In purely evolutionary terms, it is a bad choice.

How can we quantify this benefit in evolutionary terms?

Ewald Große - Wilde and Bill S. Hansson and their colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now taken a closer look at the olfactory system of wingless insects, which − in evolutionary terms − are older than winged insects: the jumping bristletail Lepismachilis y - signata and the firebrat Thermobia domestica, which are both wingless, as well as the leaf insect Phyllium siccifolium, which is winged and was used as a control.

Making the point in evolutionary terms Callicott reminds us that «the very structure of one's psyche and rational faculties are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature.»

«We didn't really know that it was so important in evolutionary terms for us humans, so this is an exciting discovery that can have a great impact on future research,» says Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology and one of the authors of the study.

In evolutionary terms very low bodyfat is considered bad as the body perceives it as a threat of starvation, which is why signals to get you to eat grow increasingly strong the leaner we get.

Unfortunately this comment section has evolved (see I'm using «evolutionary terms») into a debate on whether or not God exists and if religion is true or false, and what religions are right, and who's wrong.

In evolutionary terms, then, it may not always «pay» to be monogamous that is, the highest number of offspring may be best guaranteed by some non monogamous arrangement such as group «marriage».

In evolutionary terms, I'd be out of business.

But they would have learned in our course that there is no good theological reason to object to any scientific attempts to understand religion, even in evolutionary terms.

The vestibular sense are very old, in evolutionary terms, since all earthly organisms have had to orient themselves with respect to gravity and their own motion.

If you think about separation anxiety in evolutionary terms, it makes sense: A defenseless baby would naturally get upset over being taken away from the person who protects and cares for him.

Disgust is an emotion that relates back, in evolutionary terms, to «bad taste» or «bad smell.»

But it is unclear when this pupil mimicry began in evolutionary terms.

In evolutionary terms, it's incredibly expensive, says Drew Allen, an ecologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

In evolutionary terms, there's little point being the only cockroach in a new cave: much better to bring along a mate.

«The identification of emotional vocalizations depends on systems in the brain that are older in evolutionary terms,» says Marc Pell, Director of McGill's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the lead author on the study that was recently published in Biological Psychology.

In evolutionary terms, how does destroying its host help a microbe to survive?

Central to their research have been two related species of fruit flies, Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana, which diverged from a common ancestor more than 260,000 years ago — a «blink of an eye» in evolutionary terms, Pitnick says.

«Although humans live longer than lizards, this rate of change would still be rapid in evolutionary terms.»

Robin Dunbar of the University of Liverpool writes in an accompanying commentary that «in evolutionary terms, sociality is good for you.»

Snailfish are thought to have colonized deep ocean trenches relatively recently, in evolutionary terms.

In evolutionary terms, they are believed to have descended from a common ancestor of cyanobacteria, which emerged 3.6 billion years ago.

In a new PBS series, Your Inner Fish, paleobiologist Neil Shubin hosts a journey through time that answers the question in evolutionary terms.

As Carroll concludes, quoting Sir Peter Medawar,» «the alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.»

In evolutionary terms, it was a terrific deal.

In evolutionary terms, the ability to change one type of cell into others — including a sperm or egg cell, or even an embryo — means that humans can now wrest control of reproduction away from nature, notes Robert Lanza, a scientist at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.

«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 descent of the surface - dwelling Astyanas mexicanus into the cave a few million years ago «is a very, very recent event, in evolutionary terms,» Jeffery says.

A lack of sex might eventually catch up with the insect, says David Hillis of the University of Texas at Austin, as 1.5 million years is not long in evolutionary terms.

So most of the differences between chimp and human genomes will turn out to be neither beneficial nor detrimental, in evolutionary terms.

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.

In fact, as a marsupial, a class of mammals that keep their young in a pouch, it's a very long way from the cat family in evolutionary terms.

In evolutionary terms, says Garm, it is interesting because starfish eyes are structurally close in form to the hypothesised first image - forming eyes.

Genetic analysis has revealed which birds are the most unique and ancient in evolutionary terms — giving conservationists a new way to decide which to save

In evolutionary terms, the blue cones in mammals correspond to the blue - to UV - sensitive cones in birds.

Some chemists, including Albert Eschenmoser at the University of Zurich, think that molecules based on the corrin ring system of vitamin B12 could be older in evolutionary terms than the porphyrin - based ring systems in haem and chlorophyll.

«In evolutionary terms, corals that eat more may win.»

This is because there are anaerobic bacteria that produce corrins, but none that generate porphyrins, and anaerobic bacteria are older in evolutionary terms than aerobic ones.

As humans, we like to think we are unique in evolutionary terms, but the octopus could reveal that this is not the case.

Its closest relatives still have small mitochondria, suggesting that it jettisoned the organelles fairly recently in evolutionary terms.