Sentences with phrase «history of a particular animal»

Timothy explores the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility and his deeply empathetic relation to the world around him.

Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility.

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The difference is that in man and the higher animals there is a unique coordination of many such occasions over a particular area called the body, and a unique inheritance of past occasions that is able consciously to identify a self through history.

But his procedure is different from that of the zoologist; he is preoccupied with the general structures of animal life, and not alone with the «history» of a particular species.

The many different species of plants and animals each have their own particular natures because of a long history of interactions and cause - and - effect sequences which have made each species what it is.

«Living herd animals do occasionally turn carnivore to fulfill a particular nutritional need,» says vertebrate paleontologist Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Those who study dinosaurs are more eager to know the life histories of the beasts: what particular adaptations they had, how they ate, how they raised their young, and what evolutionary relationships they might have had with one another and with modern - day animals.

«This is the plot twist that gives away the story,» says Sharma, because it allows scientists like him to trace the evolutionary and genetic history of this group of animals, united by their loss of a particular gene.

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In humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been shown to be highly responsive to child - caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as human studies also support the connection between caregiver experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological, affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.