Sentences with phrase «for evolutionary»

As for the evolutionary biology behind it... I don't know if there's a specific reason or activity that would predetermine stronger eccentric movements..

Apparently paleolithic man would udder - feed from a cow now and then (though it's doubtful that he survived for evolutionary selection).

Ronnie Landis's Inner Alchemy Youthening Program is a thoroughly researched, beautifully written book that is a must read for the evolutionary - minded individual who seeks to live the limitless physical, mental, and spiritual potential that is the human birthright.

The antibacterial compounds in honey and royal jelly exist for evolutionary purposes, to keep the food fresh.

His focus is educating people on how to make shamanism a lifestyle choice for evolutionary adaptation.

Shaman Durek is an author, activist, and women's empowerment leader who focuses his practice specifically on helping people learn how to make shamanism a lifestyle choice for evolutionary adaptation.

She conducted postdoctoral work at the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zürich from 2010 - 2012, focusing on high - throughput DNA and protein sequencing of oral tissues.

Here we undertake a synthesis of central concepts for evolutionary predictions, based on examples of microbial and viral systems, cancer cell populations, and immune receptor repertoires.

Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil - record quality - C. Verity Bennett, Paul Upchurch, Francisco J. Goin, Anjali Goswami

As a persistent social pattern, it does cry out for an evolutionary explanation.

1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 2Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, 3Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 5Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 6Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 7Department of Mathematics, 8Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.

The results serve as an important foundation for evolutionary studies and deeper investigations into the genetic and molecular mechanisms that underlie cephalopod - specific traits.

Kálmán Szabó, Stockholm University, and Pernilla Wittung - Stafshede, Chalmers University of Technology were also elected as Swedish Members together with Michael Tomasello, Max Planck - institute for evolutionary anthropology, Germany, and Michael J. Puett, Harvard University, MA, USA as international Members.

Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.

Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil - record quality Paleobiology Cambridge Core

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Princeton University, Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

However, the Neanderthal reputation is enjoying some long - awaited street cred, thanks to researchers at the University of Southampton and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

... to the 7th meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) that will be held from June 26 - 29, 2018 in Galway, Ireland.

The researchers also wanted to control for the evolutionary relatedness of the species they studied.

Nasonia is a complex of four closely related parasitic wasp species that is rapidly emerging as a model for evolutionary and developmental genetics [9], [10].

In addition to Siepel, who is Chair of CSHL's Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, the team included several members of the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, including Martin Kuhlwilm, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer and co-team leader Sergi Castellano.

The study lays the foundation for evolutionary biologists studying the three - spined stickleback to be able to better understand the biological processes.

«Fossil interpretations are notoriously problematic,» says Svante Pääbo, a palaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

While a graduate student at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University, he created mathematical modeling methods to predict outcomes of HIV therapy.

For over 2.5 million stars we report mass, age and distance estimate for each evolutionary phase and unimodal sub-PDF.

She and Dannemann, both from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, made these determinations and more after looking for known Neanderthal genetic variants in the UK Biobank, a database of information on 112,000 UK individuals that includes genetic data, along with details related to their physical appearance, diet, sun exposure, behavior and disease.

Digging for the evolutionary and genetic basis of burrowing behavior in deer mice Jesse Weber, Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA (talk given in Symposium Session II)

«There are two hypotheses that can explain this difference,» lead author Kay Prüfer, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, told Seeker.

Led by the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, researchers set out to settle the debate as to whether hominin remains in the Grotte du Renne, an archaeological site in Arcy - sur - Cure, France, date to Neanderthal ancestry or whether they indicate the first evidence of modern humans in Europe.

We further aim to understand origins and causes for evolutionary diversity in chromosome segregation protein networks, using various model organisms including Tetrahymena thermophila and Toxoplasma gondii.

«There is a huge debate about how different Neanderthals were from modern humans,» said Shannon McPherron, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

«The first recognizable stone tools consist of stone pebbles and simple flakes and date to about 2.5 million years ago from Ethiopia,» Skinner, who is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Kent and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said.

Kivell, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Kent and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, lead author Matthew Skinner, and their colleagues came to that conclusion after analyzing bones from Australopithecus hands from the Pliocene Epoch, approximately 5.3 - 2.6 million years ago.

i Similar difficulties exist for evolutionary explanations of the other (almost 200) known moons in the solar system.

«In Africa a million years ago, they were all one group it seems, and then the ancestors of present - day humans and Neanderthals separated from the ancestors of the people that carried the Denisova mitochondrial DNA,» co-author Svante Pääbo, director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, told Discovery News.

«By selecting only the very best preserved bone specimens and with various improvements in proteomic analysis, we were able to obtain roughly 90 per cent of the collagen sequence for both species,» said lead author Frido Welker, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of York.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

To study how these two types of males fare reproductively, a research team led by Graham L. Banes and Linda Vigilant of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology followed the male orangutans of Tanjung Puting National Park for eight years.

«Our new data reveal that Homo sapiens spread across the entire African continent around 300,000 years ago,» said coauthor Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in a press release.

Kálmán Szabó, Stockholm University, and Pernilla Wittung - Stafshede, Chalmers University of Technology were also elected as Swedish Members together with Michael Tomasello, Max Planck - institute for evolutionary anthropology, Germany, -LSB-...]

Participating institutions: Helmholtz Association • CNRS • Institute of Molecular Biotechnology • Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences • VIB - KU Leuven • Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research • University of Basel • University of Zurich • Central European Institute of Technology • Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics • German Cancer Research Center • Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases • Helmholtz Zentrum München • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology • Helmholtz Institute of RNA - based Infection Research • Saarland University • Technical University Munich • University of Würzburg • Biotech Research & Innovation Centre • Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center • University of Copenhagen • Centre for Genomic Regulation • Institut Curie • Université de Montpellier • Inserm • Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier • École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris • Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland • The Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens • Weizmann Institute of Science • Hebrew University • Sapienza — University of Rome • Instituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare • University of Napoli • University of Padua • University of Milan • European Institute of Oncology • Netherlands Cancer Institute • Radboud University • University Medical Center Utrecht • Hubrecht Institute • Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência • Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences • Romanian Center for Systems Immunology • Karolinska Institute • MRC Human Genetics Unit • University of Edinburgh • Wellcome Sanger Institute • The Babraham Institute • European Molecular Biology Laboratory — European Bioinformatics Institute

This highly unusual characteristic may enable the variants to help to maintain a fundamental tension crucial for evolutionary success: promoting the generation of significant diversity within a portion of the population but keeping the pace of this change within certain bounds, maintaining it relatively constant overall and so supporting the stability of the genome and the cohesiveness of the species.

The emergent spatial structure of cell lineages during biofilm growth is important to numerous other facets of microbial ecology, especially for the evolutionary trajectories of social phenotypes [16].

This opens the way for various other applications in paleontology and paleoanthropology, which we are currently exploring,» said study lead author Frido Welker of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of York.

Verônica Grieneisen (John Innes Institute and University of East Anglia, U.K.) Jean - Jacques Hublin (Max - Planck - Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany) Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, USA) Uli Technau (University of Vienna, Austria) Sponsor

A new study led by the University of Southampton and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows that paintings in three caves in Spain were created more than 64,000 years ago - 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe.

Matthias Meyer analyzes ancient samples in a clean lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Meyer (left) and Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid discuss the unique characteristics of the hominin fossils found at Sima de los Huesos; Bones are ground into a fine powder before isolating and extracting the DNA in the sample.

In 2012, for example, Willerslev's lab published an analysis of proteins, which are generally longer lived postmortem than genetic material, of 43,000 - year - old woolly mammoth bones.16 And last year, Willerslev, Orlando, and colleagues published a genome - wide nucleosome map and survey of cytosine methylation levels in the DNA they pulled from the 4,000 - year - old hair shafts of a Paleo - Eskimo, effectively launching the field of ancient epigenetics.17 Also last year, Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology published the first full DNA methylation maps of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.18 «For the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev says.

The fifth meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology was held from July 22 — 25, 2014 in Vienna.

«The picture that's going to emerge in the next years is a much more complex one,» says Svante Pääbo, a palaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.