Sentences with phrase «for evolutionary studies»

The study of singles in America was funded by Match.com and conducted by MarketTools in association with biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, social historian Stephanie Coontz, evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton University (EvoS).

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

Mice are common subjects for evolutionary studies of mammals because they breed quickly and a biologist can follow many generations in the span of one's career.

Thus it isn't useful for evolutionary studies.

«This approach, termed DiceCT, can be widely applied, not just for evolutionary studies but also as a powerful tool for biomedical investigations of brain development in disease, congenital defects, or injury,» she said.

Not exact matches

JULY 29, 2011 New research by Chinese scientists has thrown the winged Archaeopteryx — long thought to be the «original bird» — off the evolutionary pedestal as the case study for evolution from dinosaur to bird.

It's like going to Answers in Genesis for information about evolutionary biology or a Scientology website to study psychiatry.

«These things have evolved because they're good for the parents, but they sometimes, not [with] high frequency, but sometimes carry over» into offspring, study researcher William Rice, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told LiveScience.

, the irreducible complexity problem explained so clearly by md2205 (research the parts of the flagellum bacterium — amazing), probability of something happening — for the many years evolution has been studied and not a single example of a transitional fossil (please research before replying — there have been MANY confirmed fakes) or an evolutionary event in progress.

Here we have known methods of life on this planet that we have studied and observed to come to an evolutionary conclusion for part of the origins of life (the manual transmission) and then you have your theory of a prime mover, a universal creator (the flux capacitor if you will), which can not be tested, can not be seen, can not be heard, can not be felt by any known testing methods and yet you want to say «Hey, why havn't you learned to drive the flux capacitor transmission yet?

According to the standard evolutionary view, the study of primate behaviour is particularly relevant for understanding the roots of our own nature.

@Topher The American Association for the Advancement of Science represents ALL scientific fields of study — not just evolutionary biology.

The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.

Comparative evolutionary studies indicate that human infants are poorly neurologically developed at birth, and thus require close physical contact for safety, physiological regulation and frequent feeding.

In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology.

«This provides evidence for the hypothesis that gender differences in intergroup conflict can have an evolutionary origin, as only males seem to benefit from displaying heroism,» says Joost Leunissen, a psychologist at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study.

«What we need to do is run back down [the evolutionary] tree and study sex from the bottom up, looking for alternative options to sex.»

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

A claim of multiple domestications for dogs requires extraordinary evidence, says study coauthor Krishna Veeramah, an evolutionary geneticist at Stony Brook University in New York.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposable elements in the human genome.

«Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a «dino - chicken» simply for the sake of it,» said Bhullar, lead author of the study, published online May 12 in the journal Evolution.

«Turtles are interesting because they offer an exceptional case to understand the big evolutionary changes that occurred in vertebrate history,» explains Dr. Naoki Irie, from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, who led the study.

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.

But as I followed the citation trail and actually started looking at the primary studies that were cited in support of those conclusions — and thinking seriously about the methods that had been employed in the studies, the presuppositions behind them, and whether there were alternative evolutionary hypotheses for the things studied that were not in fact being ruled out by the experiments — I began to find that it wasn't all that convincing.

In a subsequent study, Orians and Heerwagen applied their evolutionary perspective to 35 paintings of sunsets, by such artists as Frederick Church and Martin Johnson Heade, on the theory that sunset would have been fraught with tension for our ancestors.

For many years it remained hidden among the largest fossil collection in South Africa at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University.

From an evolutionary perspective, the single moms and dads — the study found no gender differences — may be looking for a partner to help with the kids but also to provide adult company.

The study, led by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, also marks a milestone in collaboration between geneticists and linguists, who for years stayed in their separate camps.

I realized, «Wow, this idea is incredibly threatening to many people's core rationale for why they study evolutionary biology.»

«As someone who's studied evolutionary biology for a long time, I think it has a real wow factor,» says Sam Brown, a microbiologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who wasn't involved in the study.

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.

Ivany says this kind of work has implications for the study of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, and may help explain why the metabolism of cold - blooded animals has changed over time.

The team still doesn't understand the genetic mechanism responsible for the effect, but study author and evolutionary biologist Francisco Rodríguez - Trelles of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona notes a clue: Flies carrying the «summer» inversions to deal with the heat wave produced five times more offspring than they would have in ordinary years.

«From an evolutionary perspective, this [gives] us insight into how body plans evolve between species,» when comparing Parhyale to, for example, the well - studied fruit fly, Drosophila, explains Patel.

«Most of my colleagues are going to be stunned,» says Jean - Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved in either study.

Dennis Turner, an evolutionary biologist who studies companion animals at the Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, says the experiment only loosely resembles real - life adoptions, so more work needs to be done before he's convinced.

The work, published in Science in April, opens up new possibilities for researchers, says Viviane Slon, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and a co-author of the study.

For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything from the nature of communication to the evolutionary origins of language to how meaning arises in the human mind.

«This study reveals some groups of virus have been in existence for the entire evolutionary history of the vertebrates — it transforms our understanding of virus evolution,» said Professor Eddie Holmes, of the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity at the University of Sydney.

Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, CB2 1QH, UK.

By studying the evolutionary relationship between the various species, the team found that vertical and circular pupils evolved several times in different groups of snakes, and that hunting behaviour was the strongest driver for pupil shape.

«Further studies are needed to confirm and expand the repertoire of local regulators of bone growth, adding valuable insights to evolutionary studies and providing avenues for therapies that can correct long bone growth defects.»

Studies of genetic markers had already proved invaluable for evolutionary biology and forensic science, aided by chemist Kary Mullis's 1983 invention of PCR, an efficient way to amplify minute fragments of DNA.

«It's been known for a long time that these kinds of slips occur, and they are viewed as the Barnum and Bailey of evolution,» said the study's senior researcher Ehad Abouheif, Canada research chair in evolutionary developmental biology at McGill University.

«Now that we know that it is the original stick insect, there is a much stronger case» for releasing it into the original habitat, says evolutionary biologist and study coauthor Sasha Mikheyev of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan.

Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats — so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species.

The study, led by Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, was controversial.

People differ from rats in many ways, but the study supports a growing body of evidence that there's an evolutionary basis for helpful behavior, independent of culture or upbringing, Mason says.

«They take it to new nutrient sources for the bacteria to grow, and they also prudently harvest — they don't eat all of it — and save some of it for the dispersal,» explains Debra Brock, a graduate researcher at Rice's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and co-author of the new study.