Sentences with phrase «evolved over hundreds of years»

The Pit Bull breed has evolved over hundreds of years to be a worker and is well suited to most any task requiring strength, agility, and intelligence.

Book design has evolved over hundreds of years, establishing conventions that became unconscious expectations on the part of readers.

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The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of rewards, punishments, and obedience, and so on.

The concept of cloth diapers has been around for hundreds of years, but they have evolved immensely over the last 20 or so years.

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.

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.

Over the past 12,000 years or more, species of three - spined stickleback fish have colonized hundreds of freshwater lakes in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia, forming independently evolving populations.

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.

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).

Over the next few hundred thousand years, W75N (B)- VLA 2 will evolve into a star about six times the mass of our sun, team members estimate.

P. fluorescens produces as many as ten generations a day under the reported experimental conditions, which allowed the Georgia Tech scientists to study how they evolved over 120 generations — changes that would have taken hundreds of years in finches.

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.

Volkswagen's new Roadmap E underlines a seismic shift that is happening to the auto industry which is rapidly evolving to keep pace with a worldwide erosion of the equity that petrol and diesel powered vehicles have enjoyed for over a hundred years now.

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.

The Great Barrier Reef has a delicate reef ecosystem that evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and gave life to more than 6,600 species and plants and beasts.

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.

Over hundreds or thousands of years, civilization and the biosphere have adapted and evolved to match a climate not very different from that of recent times.

This amazing mosaic evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, but we have disrupted it in just a century.

Let's take a quick highlight review of how things have evolved with merchandising industrial wind energy.,, Wind energy was abandoned for most commercial and industrial applications, well over a hundred years ago.

You will be told that weather and climate are two different things because the climate system evolves and changes over hundreds or thousands of years and weather changes every minute / hour / day.

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.

The British spent hundreds of years evolving and entrenching the notion of the independence of the bar only to adopt a process that, over time, can only harm it.

The doctrine has evolved over the last hundred years and is a very complex area of civil rights litigation.

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).