Sentences with phrase «evolved over hundreds of millions of years»

These structures have evolved over hundreds of millions of years to help us survive contamination of the blood stream by filtering out the bad stuff and excreting it through our urine and feces.

And their flexible, intelligent arms are the envy of roboticists and artificial intelligence engineers worldwide.But these animals, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, can teach us even more about security in the 21st century than camo and communications, Rafe Sagarin argues in his new book Learning from the Octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease (Basic Books, April 2012).

Blasting GM DNA into a plant arbitrarily and out of a sequence of genes that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, in a manner aimed to optimise the functioning of an organism, is risky and unpredictable, and bound to destabilise the biochemistry of the plant.

Having shown that IGF -1-deficient mice also live longer, Bartke's study suggested not only that these pathways are important in mammals, but that they might have been crucial in controlling life span in a range of creatures evolving over hundreds of millions of years from a common ancestor of worms and mammals, says Miller.

Not exact matches

Our bodies have evolved to eat whole foods over millions of years while manufactured and processed foods have only been around for a couple hundred years.

Our early brain hardware worked so well over the last few hundred million years that, as we evolved, we retained many of those old brain parts in there and added more and more cool tricks, more neocortex.

Cool as the cartoon of bipedal dinosaurs pushing baby carriages may be, the sad fact is that reptiles didn't evolve until the Carboniferous — over a hundred million years later.

Naturally we would expect plants to be best adapted to the environment in which they spent the most time evolving and adapting over hundreds of millions of years.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).