Recent studies indicate that rapidly rising greenhouse gas concentrations are driving ocean systems toward conditions not
seen for millions of years, with an associated risk of fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation.
But while city streets have become increasingly crowded with distractions, our ability to process visual information has remained
unchanged for millions of years.
Animals have been using camouflage
for millions of years for survival, but there can also be aesthetic reasons to want to disappear, at least a little.
Humans have only been nursing their young to
sleep for millions of years, not billions (we've only been around for about 4.5 million years).
It has been proposed that insulin resistance has evolved as an adaptation to relatively low carbohydrate foods consumed by our
ancestors for millions of years (38).
The human race has eaten this
diet for millions of years, thus our bodies have evolved to require the nutrients in this diet to function optimally.
The planet we inhabit is a self - regulating, self - sustaining and self - renewing home, one that has worked
well for millions of years.
«A story is starting to emerge that malaria is somehow connected with evolutionary forces that have been driving changes in the human
genome for millions of years,» he said.
For millions of years global climate change has altered the structure and internal movement of mountain ranges, but the resulting glacial development and erosion can in turn change a mountain's local climate.