Sentences with phrase «evolutionary time»

It also points to new mechanisms at work in the brain development of individuals and in species like humans over evolutionary time.

Also, pointing out that this food or that food is «relatively new» to humans on the larger scale of evolutionary time is a little silly.

Go back further in evolutionary time, and gene swapping was the order of day.

In fact, the molecular level conservation of proteins across evolutionary time is what leads to conservation of function in the organism.

In order to grasp better the transcendent nature of the evolutionary process, let us abstract from the things that evolve and just look at evolutionary time as a process.

As evolutionary time passes, a lineage moves away and its various connected populations grow separate from others of the same ancestry.

However, across species and between distant evolutionary time - periods there are particularly strong spatial associations.

Now, researchers have found evidence that the positions of a fish's spine help guide where its body expands over evolutionary time.

Let us move away from this example of growth to a more formal analysis of evolutionary time.

The influence of positive selection (the process by which a protein changes rapidly over evolutionary time scales) in expanding and diversifying animal venoms is widely recognized.

On evolutionary time scales, we know far less about the effects of extinction of rare species, but we do know that evolution can amplify the effect of a species over time through its interactions on survival of other species.

The tangled symbiotic and pathogenic relationships between bacteria and multicellular animals go back into deep evolutionary time where fossils of ancestral microscopic soft - bodied eukaryotes are unlikely to have survived.

The creature ate a similar diet to modern giant pandas, suggesting their unusual bamboo - chewing lifestyle has survived through evolutionary time.

The innovative combination of bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology and biophysics allowed researchers to delve deep into evolutionary time, and change the course of an enzyme's evolutionary potential.

Now, what I would like to show is that evolutionary time evolves from the contingent to the non-contingent.

Along with fossil records, species are typically dated by analyzing the number of mutations they have accumulated — in most species these genetic blips occur at a steady rate, creating a sort of «molecular clock» that can be used to calculate evolutionary time lines.

How such a massive morphological change occurred over a relatively short evolutionary time has long puzzled biologists.

The researchers speculate that the insects» sex organs and sex - role reversal may have been driven over evolutionary time by the resource - poor cave environment in which the bugs live.

My reflections on the nature of evolutionary time show that it is not essentially contingent and that it is possible to speak of God's eternity as the Fullness of Time without implying that God becomes or is contingent.

To observe evolutionary time, it must not be seen as a container in which things that evolve are contained, for such a view of time is still basically hellenic; much less should it be considered as a succession of moments tending toward its term because this is non-evolutionary.

Now, a study led by the Stanford University School of Medicine indicates the two roughly overlapped during evolutionary time: from between 120,000 to 156,000 years ago for the man, and between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago for the woman.

By looking at the evolutionary history of genes in the lineage of water striders, the researchers uncovered the ancestral copy of the gene (distinguished from the more recent duplicate) and nailed down the moment in evolutionary time when the duplicate appeared: at the origin of the Rhagovelia genus.

The researchers recently mapped out the largest evolutionary time - scaled tree that included leaf and stem data which documented 32,000 species of flowering plants, also called angiosperms.

«According to the traditional view, approximately 50,000 years ago, at the start of the last 1 percent of hominid evolutionary time, a natural miracle took place: Within a critical period of 5,000 years - just one - seventh of 1 percent of the time that has elapsed since the first - known australopithecine's day - we get more significant evolutionary change than in the other 99 6/7 percent of that time;...» (p. 186)

Researchers found deleting the genes for enzymes in two plants widely separated in evolutionary time resulted in similar defects...

Unfortunately because the internal voice hasn't caught on to modern day living and is still stuck in earlier evolutionary times it doesn't realize that taking a risk or failing at something doesn't mean that a big sabre toothed tiger is about to eat you.

It allows the user to navigate in several dimensions: linearly along axes, transversally across different species, and chronologically along evolutionary time.

DNA testing shows the human evolutionary time line.

Our behavior adapts to new environments — it has to because of evolution — but it adapts in the short term as well as across evolutionary time, and it doesn't always adapt in financially beneficial ways.

I mean consider how this species, a newcomer by evolutionary time scales, had become finely tuned to sustaining itself on seals hunted on sea ice, had been ravaged by uncontrolled hunting, had started recovering as such hunting was controlled, but now — along the warmest edges of its habitat — is in retreat as its main food supply is diminished at least partly by global warming from accumulating greenhouse gases.

Strader points out that the complexity of the auxin signaling system has increased over evolutionary time as plants became fancier.

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At this point in our analysis we can fairly well establish that evolutionary time evolved from contingency to non-contingency, from transiency to immanence.

If you look at how advanced we have become in such a short evolutionary time, you should see that this type of parenting — you know, where you have a secure attachment to your child by being responsive — helps us thrive both at the individual and societal level.

While most mammals trended toward an equilibrium between the amounts of DNA gained and lost over deep evolutionary time, the bats skewed toward shedding DNA over the same time frame.

That said, the sustainability, health, and (even) quality - of - life of other species enter into this equation in several ways, especially considering that we are all related if you go back far enough into evolutionary time.

@ Colin: If speciation is due to cladogenesis, splitting, rather than anagenesis, which you described, then sister species can diverge enormously over evolutionary time.

Faith, as the higher dimension of reason, is a power for the future that opens for us the Transcendent Ground or Omega of evolutionary time.

For union with God as Ground of evolution means involvement in evolutionary time; advance into the future toward God - Omega is not a withdrawal from time but a fuller possession of it.

Theology in this case does not deal with supratemporal or timeless truths but with the eschatological (a higher temporal dimension of evolutionary time or process than the purely historical) and hence temporal truths.

In evolutionary time, nothing is lost.

Evolutionary time is not a succession of moments, each of which appears for a flitting instant and is lost forever.

It is necessary to distinguish the fullness of time of the universe which is the result of evolution and maturation from the Fullness of Time of God which is the source of evolutionary time.

Evolutionary time is one with the things that evolve, so it is the things themselves that must be observed, but from the point of view of a thing's ability to possess and to gather time.

Let me proceed to argue the point, first by a theoretical analysis of the nature of evolutionary time, contrasting it with the hellenic view of time, and second by a confirmation and verification of this analysis of evolutionary time as non-contingent and immanent by observing the actual process of evolution itself.