Sentences with phrase «future evolutionary studies»
The experiment will also serve as a model for future evolutionary studies.
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As Frank and Sullivan show, studying past extinction events and using theoretical tools to model the future evolutionary trajectory of humankind — and of still unknown but plausible alien civilizations — could inform decisions that would lead to a sustainable future.
«What this study has shown is that evolutionary processes can increase rates of movement, but also variation in how fast species move, and allow us to get a better sense of where organisms might go in the future.»
What we may have identified in this study is mammals» own «Cambrian explosion» moment, when evolutionary experimentation ran wild and the future shape of mammals was up for grabs.»
Moreover, such large trees are very useful for future studies of large - scale evolutionary patterns, such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»
The Evolutionary Biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel teamed with experts from Canada, Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Sweden to critically review previous studies and to give advice for future investigations.
«We didn't really know that it was so important in evolutionary terms for us humans, so this is an exciting discovery that can have a great impact on future research,» says Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology and one of the authors of the study.
We discuss the recent advances to address the question and characterize the developmental constraint in evolution, by integrating approaches from cell, and evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, and theoretical biophysics, and provide the future perspective in the quantitative evo - devo studies.
Evolutionary biologists at Fred Hutch are studying how HIV evolved before it was able to infect humans — and how it may change again in the future — in the hopes of getting one step ahead of the virus.
Just as the plastic - eating microbes are under study to find super-enzymes that can be of use in plastic recycling processes, the many evolutionary tricks of tree - eating fungi will inspire scientists looking for answers to how we can fuel the future.