Sentences with phrase «history of organisms»

«Studying the history of organisms that we use and breed, and that we've had an effect on, tells us about history as well as culture and human migration.»

«Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of organisms,» explains Hoßfeld.

Kearney has devoted her academic and professional work to the study of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and evolutionary history of organisms, a field known as phylogenetics.

Understanding the evolutionary history of organisms is important for myriad reasons.

This increase in data means, in many cases, increased accuracy in reconstructing the evolutionary history of organisms.

Every object is an assertion of the configural history of the organism.

Ontogeny, in the realm of biology, refers to the physical developmental history of an organism.

Not exact matches

More precisely, the duration of phyletic or ontogenetic process is not the evolutionary (maturational) history of a species (organism); the former is more accurately the sum of its ontogenies.

Colin Gunton has astutely observed that «the Christian doctrine of God is for much of its history a hybrid of two organisms,» namely the biblical understanding of God as living and dynamic, and the Greek categories [49] of absolute perfection.

It is a continuously developing organism, so the history of the church — indeed of any religion — is a story of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped by the past.

To common sense, there are three stages in the history of a living organism: coming into being, enduring, and perishing.

... Thus personal minds (each with its history of experiences) and enduring bodies finally appear in the philosophy of organism, but as variable complexes rather than metaphysical absolutes.

EVOLUTION: the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Each evolutionary event is conditioned by the whole preceding history of the species, by the environment in which it occurs, and possibly, in higher organisms with developed nervous systems, by the behavioral reactions of these organisms.

«This continually unfolding emergence of new and intricately organised systems and organisms strongly suggests a directionality in the history of the universe, and in the history of the Earth and of life on it... many recent interdisciplinary pundits postulate an overarching finality or teleology - a purposefulness - to the unfolding universe, and to nature itself as it evolves on Earth...

We have the fossil record and evidence for genetics, where we see evidence of organisms evolutionary history in psuedogenes, etc..

Nietzsche's imagined overman quits the history of the spirit of revenge for the more cheerful play of a protean natural organism.

Of course, Dewey proposed a universal method (sometimes calling it «the method of intelligence») and made cosmological assumptions that aggravate Richard Rorty (but that differ from Rorty's only in being more explicit than Rorty's own).8 But these are only ancillary to Dewey's central task, which was to use thought to promote adjustment between organisms and their historOf course, Dewey proposed a universal method (sometimes calling it «the method of intelligence») and made cosmological assumptions that aggravate Richard Rorty (but that differ from Rorty's only in being more explicit than Rorty's own).8 But these are only ancillary to Dewey's central task, which was to use thought to promote adjustment between organisms and their historof intelligence») and made cosmological assumptions that aggravate Richard Rorty (but that differ from Rorty's only in being more explicit than Rorty's own).8 But these are only ancillary to Dewey's central task, which was to use thought to promote adjustment between organisms and their history.

Once the exceptional, but fundamentally biological, nature of the collective human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred in the dimensions in which we are working) from treating as authentic organs the diverse social organisms which have gradually evolved in the course of the history of the human race.

«The aim of this book is to argue that the mind - body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the relation between mind brain and behaviour in living organisms, but that it invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and it history.»

Family therapist Nathan Ackerman suggests that the term «organism» connotes the family's living process, functional unity, and natural life history — «a period of germination, a birth, a growth and development, a capacity to adapt to change and crisis, a slow decline, and finally, dissolution of the old family into the new.»

Teilhard envisions that the processive realization in history of the atonement actualized in Christ will proceed to a threshold of sudden change, much like the «quantum leap» in which life first emerged on earth, and there will emerge a total humanity newly unified into an «organism» about Christ, the center of centers (PM 288ff.).

He reminds us that science is still ignorant of the chemical pathways that wonderfully allowed the inert chemicals of the earth's early history to form the more complex chemicals needed by even the simplest living organisms.

His reason for saying this is that if you look at organisms, not just at the beginning, when life had its minimal complexity, but at any subsequent time in evolutionary history, there is no evidence that these organisms in the course of time led to more complex creatures.

I do not believe Whitehead means this only as history of the origins of modern science, for the philosophy of organism included not only harmony, but rhythm, balance, series, progress — all modes of order are affirmed of nature and «set before us as ideals» (SMW 28, extended from harmony and progress to other modes of order).

The idea of development seems to have come from biology, where it is used in reference to the process of evolution from a previous and lower (e.g., embryonic) stage to a later, more complex or more perfect one; this development can involve differentiation into individual organisms and their subsequent histories.

While tomatoes have been regularly used as a model organism to study the effect of climate in fruit ripening, its commercial history is a chequered one.

[211] In coordination with institutional organisms, researchers are also studying the social impact of brestfeeding throughout history.

To measure the impact, people go out in ships and drill holes in the ocean floor, where shells of marine organisms have settled throughout geologic history.

Today, technological advances allow scientists to read billions of letters from the genomes of ancient humans and other organisms, transforming our view of history and evolution.

Since life first emerged more than 3 billion years ago, single - celled organisms have dominated the planet for most of its history.

But this new theory, called phylogenetic systematics, proposed that the classification of organisms should reflect their actual evolutionary history.

«What we wanted to know is why these large organisms appeared at this particular point in Earth's history,» said Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill of Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences and Tokyo Tech's Earth - Life Science Institute, the paper's first author.

Such fluxes of knowledge from biology to the wider society and their implications are the focus of Marianne Sommer's History Within: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules.

Early in life's history, RNA might have catalyzed critical chemical reactions to sustain an organism, doing the jobs of both DNA and proteins.

«This provided a slow trickle of food for organisms living near the ocean floor which enabled them to survive the mass extinction, answering one of the outstanding questions that still remained regarding this period of history.

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université de Poitiers, working in collaboration with teams from the Université de Lille 1, Université de Rennes 1, the French National History Museum and Ifremer, have discovered, in clay sediments from Gabon, fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms ever found (Nature, 2010).

Willerslev questions the reliability of using just one organism to record environmental history.

Studying them has yielded insights into the workings of nature, including the surprising fact that the composition of ecosystems may be influenced far more by propagule pressure — the persistence with which new species are introduced — than by the life - history traits of organisms or by competition between species.

That's where genomic analysis can help: It turns out that Methanosarcina had acquired a particularly fast means of making methane, through gene transfer from another microbe — and the team's detailed mapping of the organism's history now shows that this transfer happened at about the time of the end - Permian extinction.

«This tells just how little we still know about the biodiversity of organisms through Earth's history.

A survey of early - career scientists and environmental - science professionals found that only 11 percent felt their academic training alone provided the needed exposure to natural history, which can be defined as the observation of organisms in their natural environment.

Yet body mass, an important component of the physiological state of an organism, can affect key life - history traits such as survival, chick mass and breeding success and population dynamics.

A Natural History of Shells is a fascinating biological view of shells as the products of living organisms, not just a treatise on shell growth.

This is because body size not only has numerous implications for function and life history but also has necessary limits that differ between groups of organisms.

«The most significant pattern in the history of life is the progressive net increase in complexity of structure and dynamics that has occurred in organisms and the ecosystems in which -LSB-...]

While some argued that for radical changes, others argued that the field merely builds on a long history of manipulating DNA in living organisms and worried that tough new oversight could stifle research.

However, the microfossils of aquatic organisms, preserved in the chronologically layered muds of the Arctic's ubiquitous lakes, provide a good climate history book.

McCarthy surveys the history and development of biogeography by discussing interesting and informative examples of the distributions of organisms in space and time.

The pyocin - resistance experiment is part of a larger reconsideration of bacteria not just as threat to our health but also as organisms in their own right, with their own ecology and evolutionary histories.