Sentences with phrase «evolved different adaptations»
Rather than one group predating the other, «both groups evolved different adaptations, and they've also retained different primitive features from their ancestor,» Giles explains.
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It adapts, and I do believe Christians can see and believe in adaptation as it occurs every day, but is entirely different from billions or millions of years of one species evolving into another, with a supposed start of a non-living or non-traceable thing.
My vodka sauce actually started out years ago as an adaptation of the Rachael Ray sauce, but has since evolved into something different.
«It enables us to not only predict the effectiveness of growing different crops and other adaptations but also how human societies can evolve and impact their environment.»
To determine whether populations have evolved local adaptation, Colautti and University of Toronto professor Spencer Barrett collected seeds from three different climatic regions and grew them at three sites spanning the distribution of the species in eastern North America.
Natural selection creates a dynamic, ever - changing biota, driven to evolve by genetic variation, adaptation to different environments, competition for limited resources, and cooperative exchanges among individuals.
This raises the question of whether these bunodont teeth were inherited by all otters from a common ancestor, or evolved independently in different otter lineages over time because of the evolution of similar adaptations to thrive in similar environments.
«They are remarkable for their diversity of traits and adaptations, many of them evolving in parallel in different species.»
«Environmental changes would have produced a lot more fragmented, mosaic - type ecosystems, where populations of horses with similar demands and adaptations could have evolved isolated from one another, resulting in different species but with a similar appearance,» points Manuel Hernández Fernández at the Complutense Univerity in Madrid.
Convergent evolution, is when the same adaptations have evolved independently in different lineages of species under similar selection pressures.
Pikas, which include about 30 species all living at different altitudes, have likely evolved special adaptations for living where they do.
They show that there is a trade - off between ovariole number and egg size, that reductions in ovariole number evolve alongside shifts to specific food sources, and that ovariole number variation among species with different food sources is best explained by adaptation to specific ecological niches.
This means that different parts of the body, and different adaptations, evolved at different times and different rates.
«It enables us to not only predict the effectiveness of growing different crops and other adaptations but also how human societies can evolve and impact their environment.»