Sentences with phrase «happen over evolutionary time»
The observation could explain how a gene that specifies a particular behavior can adapt to accommodate changes in brain circuitry that happen over evolutionary time.
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Regulatory change can be evolutionary or revolutionary: It can happen quickly or slowly over time.
One can argue that it didn't happen at the same time, but that over millions of years these mutations developed independently and fell into place on their own... but I see no evolutionary advantage of having wiring without sensors or processing, or sensors without wiring or processing, or processing without sensors and wiring.
Until recently, it was considered that such evolutionary processes would only happen through slow accumulation of changes over exceptionally long periods of time.
However, using the evolutionary tree, they found that as the seed bank collection grew in the future, if its collection strategy was determined by 3E priority species, something odd happened over time: the collection contained more and more close relatives and overall diversity diminished.
«Our lack of effective policies can be attributed, in part, to a lack of good on - farm data about what's happening with nutrient input and loss over time,» said a co-author, Alan Townsend, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado - Boulder.