Sentences with phrase «for evolutionary adaptation»

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.

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.

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.

EPAS1 and ELGN1 predictably popped out as strong candidates for evolutionary adaptations, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Not exact matches

another one them tried to make a case for evolution using principles of adaptation and then claimed that even though it did not fit into the evolutionary timescale it was the methods used that proved the validity of the experiment.

And evolutionary adaptations are neither good nor bad, only useful or not useful for a given time and place.

According to evolutionary theory, the way something exists in nature is simply a consequence of the constraints imposed by the environment and the organisms resources for adaptation - not some ideal or optimal design imagined by an intelligent creator.

First, as hypothesized by James McKenna, night wakings may help prevent SIDS [10], they are necessary for cue - feeding given the size of an infant's stomach [11], and may even be an evolutionary adaptation to ensure someone is close by and caring for the infant, ensuring his or her survival.

During this long history of evolutionary adaptation, human beings slowly evolved mechanisms and practices for childbirth.

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.

One is that the nature of [evolutionary] adaptation is going to create massive modularity in the mind — separate mental organs functionally specialized for separate tasks.

Adaptations that gave our ancestors an evolutionary edge can cause major problems for modern humans

In their study, the researchers found no evidence for the widespread idea that evolutionary adaptations to these two aspects of climate change would interfere with each other.

«Ardi's adaptations did all the hard evolutionary work for Lucy,» says Lovejoy, an expert on Lucy's anatomy.

If so, the selection of food sources by honeybees indicates an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation for colony success through partnership between two interacting organisms.

If researchers can trace the bacterium's evolutionary history, they might be able to identify the key mutations that trigger virulence or adaptation to different habitats, for example.

«Our new approach is poised to reveal the evolutionary adaptations for countless other environments, from the sea, high altitudes, the desert, or even underground.»

The authors concluded that this research reinforces the sunflower as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies and climate change adaptation, and will accelerate breeding programs.

One hypothesis for why a mate preference shift occurs is that it may be an evolutionary adaptation that served our ancestors» reproductive interests long before modern medicine, nutrition and sanitation dramatically reduced infant and child mortality rates.

This repeated outcome of evolution is best interpreted as evidence for similar adaptation to similar Darwinian natural selection pressure — and suggests somewhat deterministic evolutionary trajectories.

Using an evolutionary framework, the researchers found that the shape of an egg correlates with flight ability, suggesting that adaptations for flight may have been critical drivers of egg - shape variation in birds.

Fish as parasites: An insight into evolutionary convergence in adaptations for parasitism.

«The study shows that one of the most spectacular cases of [genetic] adaptation in humans has its roots in Denisovans,» says Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Though once widespread, this endangered species is only limited to fragmental mountain forests, and the highest altitude (up to 4,500 meters) of any primate, making them a fascinating subject for evolutionary biologists to study to reveal the genetics behind their adaptations.

Our study suggests that the ability to undergo unisexual reproduction may be an evolutionary strategy for eukaryotic microbial pathogens, enabling de novo genotypic and phenotypic plasticity and facilitating rapid adaptation to novel environments.

Therefore, to understand processes important for adaptation we must integrate ecological with developmental and evolutionary views.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

These findings show for the first time that evolutionary adaptation may help to mitigate harmful effects of ocean acidification.

One explanation for this finding is the fact that all mammals probably share a long period of adaptation for nocturnal life deep in their evolutionary history.

Ketosis is a totally normal evolutionary adaptation for times when food was not quite as plentiful and available as it is now.

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.

An evolutionary adaptation for women includes the body's tendency to hoard fat that surround the reproductive organs.

In this passionate analysis of the human condition, renowned biologist Wilson guides us through the great maze of evolutionary adaptations that led to our ancestors» «advanced social life,» the biological wellspring for tribalism, art, and morality.

Her work imagines, for humans specifically, how radical evolutionary adaptations can be advantageous to survive in an altered climate.

Here, we review the importance of forest genetic resources as a source of evolutionary potential for adaptation to changes in climate and other ecological factors.

Evolutionary Life History Theory (LHT) is a powerful framework that can be used for understanding behavioral strategies as contingent adaptations to environmental conditions.

Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher, who studies the brain circuitry of romantic love, says millions of years of evolutionary adaptation account for a couple's divergent sexual interests after kids are born.