Sentences with phrase «examples of adaptation»

The iguanas are one of the best examples of adaptation in all the islands.

The report includes a primer on the science of climate change as well as examples of adaptation strategies currently being pursued around the country.

Highlighting significant strategies, the IPCC AR5 includes examples of adaptation being adopted across the following regions:

It also provides a synthesis of relevant additional examples of adaptation planning and practices undertaken in other countries, which were reported under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.

Large - scale public - private risk reduction initiatives and economic diversification are examples of adaptation actions.

Therefore, the cold - weather characteristics seen in modern Yakutian horses represents one of the fastest examples of adaptation within mammals.

Growing specific foods in certain ways and preparing them in certain ways are examples of adaptations that are selected for and possibly bequeathed to later generations.

Scientists thought guppies in Northern Trinidad could be a rare example of adaptation to crude oil pollution.

Another example of adaptation and natural selection is butterflies that copied, or mimicked, the color patterns of others.

If the Common Core is about getting all kids ready for what they need for the 21st century, then this is a brilliant example of its adaptation.»

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That's only proof of adaptation within an species, mr. aj, which is an example of natural selection, not of evolution.

The Church Growth Movement, for example, has responded by adaptation, utilising the technologies of marketing analysis, business administration and mass communication to help churches grow.

Stegosaurus's plated spine is an example of what evolutionists call «adaptations,» characteristics that allow living organisms to survive long enough within specific environments to reproduce.

In one of the world's longest psychological carom shots, the authors offer as an example of such antagonism the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose violent reaction to Salman Rushdie masked his fear of adaptations that were moving Iran «mildly in the direction of species consciousness.»

DNA coding is affected by the environment via adaptation; DNA specific structure is unpredictable from biochemistry / physics alone but is environmentally determined over generations (via natural selection)-- resulting in the white fur of the polar bear, for example.

-LSB-...] an example of a typical Whole30 breakfast for me: Leftover protein (this was an adaptation of this recipe), kale or other greens sautéed in ghee, roasted sweet potatoes or squash, homemade sauerkraut and -LSB-...]

but a t some point he lost it, and is not because of his stinginess to buy players, our core is good and has been for sometime now, his biggest problem was adaptation, change to the new EPL, his philosophy dating back 20 years does not work anymore and he knows it, because of this his biggest flaw all others came out to light, lack of rotation of his players favoring some over others, stubbornness that applies to his transfer policy buying for the future just as he had 20 more years ahead, players playing out of their natural positions, ARSENAL FLOPS who knows under other Managers they could have been great, for some reason they were signed in the first place, they must had some talent, best example is Campbell....

ITV states «we are therefore not convinced that an extension or adaptation of country of origin principle, for example to online VOD, would result in the creation of an internal market for audio - visual content».

Our species is prone to back pain, for example, because our ancestors» imperfect transition to upright walking essentially took a spine similar to that of our nearest living relatives, knuckle - walking chimpanzees, and forced it vertical with piecemeal adaptations.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

A study of Alaska, for example, found that adaptation of the state's infrastructure — roads, airports, water systems, public buildings and telecommunications — would cost 13 percent less by 2030 than if the state did maintenance on a case - by - case basis.

Osedax, commonly known as bone - eating worms, are marine annelid worms that are an important example of evolutionary adaptation to a specialised habitat: the bones of vertebrates sunk in the sea.

Renewable energy is one of the long - term solutions, but I think the missing agenda is adaptation — conservation, for example.

The Arabian Gulf populations are an example of the capacity for local adaptation to allow corals to cope with conditions that prevail in the Arabian Gulf; this pattern tells us little about the limits of adaptability.

This is the first example of adaptive evolution triggered by interspecies introgression in domesticated animals, which gave us a clue that introgression event between divergent species may be an important resource for evolutionary adaptation and could largely facilitate this process.

This is maybe the best and only clear example of reciprocal adaptation between two species contributing directly to the process of speciation (the formation of new and distinct species).»

This requires the right kind of adaptation measures that account for this variability — such as intelligent insurance schemes, for example.»

In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

In the example of climate change, Pielke Jr says, many researchers have taken one of two sides: backing either mitigation policies to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, or adaptation policies to deal with climate change as it occurs.

Like Darwin's finches, the cichlids are a dramatic example of adaptive radiation, the process by which multiple species «radiate» from an ancestral species through adaptation.

Prior to considering adaptation in global or regional models, or implementation at local level, drivers of change and their impacts (and thus uncertainties) require analysis — here are a few examples.

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

For human systems, existing studies focus on frameworks and principles of adaptation planning, but examples of implemented adaptation actions and evaluation of outcomes are scarce.

«The idea that human adaptation might proceed by single changes at the amino acid level is quite a nice idea, and it's great that we have a few concrete examples of where that occurred, but it's too simplistic a view.»

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

There is also the matter of mechanical loading on the bone itself - the long bones (of the legs, for example) bow ever so slightly under heavy loading, which results in adaptation (bone thickening across the entire length of the bone) to prevent possible damage in the future.

George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a prime example of the classic Hollywood style at its best.

There is no real life proof that «races» differ in any meaningful way besides minor ecological and geographical adaptations and evolutionary differences like my long thin nose to pick a rather vulgar example, which clearly changed from my African forefathers due to their migration to colder climates, thus allowing the more efficient heating of the air inhaled, to avoid hypothermia with the minor drawback of restricting the flow of air and thus reducing the amount that can be inhaled compared to those in warmer lands.

Certainly, comic book adaptations should explore the dark side of power for example, as this is bread and butter for the genre.

Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too - faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for film noir.

Consider it as a recent example that the kind of adaptation Room merited is possible; and that the kind of film that Room is, is massively disappointing for its broad appeal.

Let it also stand as an example of a very effective way for a comic book adaptation to deal candidly with the fact that its main villain, while canonical, is a pretty much unredeemable racial stereotype.

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Many computer game adaptations suffer from having an overly complicated plot (for example, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) as some sort of overcompensation for being a computer game adaptation.

Unlike that Roald Dahl adaptation, «Isle of Dogs» does not have a compelling story, and even worse, it has the most egregious examples of its director's privilege since «The Darjeeling Limited.»

As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has been responsible for some of the most inventive scripts of the past two decades, starting with Being John Malkovich, in 1999, and continuing through such superior examples as Adaptation.

The best known recent example of the style is the low - budget Lady Macbeth, which again tackled race issues in a more apparently - conventional period: here, in an adaptation of the Russian story Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Florence Pugh's genteel Katherine, trapped in a loveless marriage, embarks on a Lady Chatterley style love affair with an estate worker, played by another mixed - race actor, Cosmo Jarvis.

The writer - director's adaptation also merges some characters — Â Colonel Stars and Lieutenant Stripes unite in the form of Jim Carrey's star - spangled - bat - wielding Colonel Stars, for example — Â and gets rid of others, streamlining the story fans already know from the paneled page into a much more palatable package.

Secret Window is a perfect example — I was completely caught by surprise by that Stephen King adaptation whilst all my friends thought it was one of the most predictable movies to come out that year.