Sentences with phrase «evolved over thousands of years»

«Native plants are cheaper to grow, they are happier in our local environment, they've evolved over thousands of years to like our bitter clay soil and our ridiculously hot summers,» said Kim Reiss, a horticulturist at Sugar Creek Gardens in Kirkwood.

A fragmentation of the cultural landscapes in the arid and semi-arid lands of Mongolia has increased vulnerability and reduced the adaptive capacities to climate variability of traditional pastoral systems, which have evolved over thousands of years.

The relationship between cats and people evolved over thousands of years.

Saddest of all, research has shown dogs have evolved over thousands of years to hide their pain, so not to show weakness to predators.

Watching your dog participate in Lure Coursing is watching your dog do something it has evolved over thousands of years to do.

The rabies virus, transmitted largely through the bites of infected animals, has evolved over thousands of years to hijack nerve cells, which it uses to climb from infected muscle tissue into the brain.

Now a new study suggests some seafaring people may have evolved over thousands of years to push the limits of typical dive responses even further.

In large mammals, behavior that evolved over thousands of years underlies trophic cascades mechanisms.

The human eye has evolved over thousands of years and has adapted to it's enviroment little by little.

«Humans evolved over thousands of years eating meat,» says Valeti.

Not exact matches

But the Catholic Church has evolved greatly in a number of directions over two thousand years.

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.

While it may be hard to understand, our knowledge of the world has actually evolved over the last several thousand years so many of the ancient understandings of the way the world works — and written into religious text — are obviously and verifiably wrong.

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There are literally millions of fossils that have been recovered, of thousands of different species and they are all located where they would be in the fossil record if life evolved slowly over billions of years.

Boeke and others plan to grow this batch for thousands of generations over the next several years to see how they evolve over time, which will give scientists a better understanding of fundamental biology, from the role of «junk DNA» to the absolute minimum of genetic code necessary for survival.

«But, when they seek out temperatures that they've evolved to be in over thousands of years, they can mitigate the impact of increasing temperatures and not sacrifice critical physiological processes.»

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.

Over thousands of years, she says, men may have evolved to choose less feminine women in harsher conditions to give them an edge at survival.

At first, this causes disease and death, but over thousands of years of repeated infection, resistance to the virus evolves, allowing any viral DNA that has embedded itself into sperm or egg cells to be passed on to the next generation.

«Evolution, the survival of the fittest, takes place over a span of thousands of years, but we can now direct proteins to evolve in hours or days,» said Jennifer Cochran, a professor of bioengineering who co-authored the paper with Thomas Baer, director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.

In particular, it is unclear whether the present day «modern» morphology rapidly emerged approximately 200 thousand years ago (ka) among earlier representatives of H. sapiens1 or evolved gradually over the last 400 thousand years2.

«Evolution, the survival of the fittest, takes place over a span of thousands of years, but we can now direct proteins to evolve in hours or days,» said Jennifer Cochran, an associate professor of bioengineering who co-authored the paper with Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.

The microbiota, which evolved over tens of thousands of years alongside their human hosts, constitutes a complex and diverse community whose exact composition varies from person to person.

One can (or could, in 1981) argue that modern humans evolved in only a few thousand years from Neandertals, but by claiming that modern humans appeared over 100,000 years ago, Goodman wrecks his own claim, since there is no evidence a sudden appearance of modern humans at that earlier date.

«The human body evolved to be quite self - sufficient over thousands of years in the forest without any medicine,» adds Page.

«Over thousands of years, not only have we evolved,» says Mohr, «but so have the foods we eat.»

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The trouble is, the way the human brain has evolved over so many thousands of years means that, when we are faced with a difficult question, it will perform a little sleight of hand.

Unfortunately, the canine species has evolved over tens of thousands of years to require mostly fats and proteins.

Over thousands of years, a new species of cat eventually evolved that naturally made its home around people: felis catus.

«Dogs have evolved with humans over thousands of years, from the point in which we were trying to domesticate them,» says research specialist Kimberly Kelly.

She has provided a balanced healthy raw diet that cats have evolved to eat over thousands of years.

You may have heard of the «Cave Man» diet as it applies to humans, the theory being that unprocessed fresh foods high in protein and low in carbohydrates are best for people who evolved successfully over thousands and thousands of years consuming just such a diet.

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.

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.

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.

Religion generally evolves from cultural beliefs created over thousands of years for the purpose of controlling and organizing growing civilizations, without having any genuine basis in reality.