Sentences with phrase «how animal bodies»

Not exact matches

It doesn't take much imagination to see how a tree - dwelling animal, born with a mutation that gave it webbing between its arms and body, could have a compet.itive advantage (less likely to fall to its death, able to access more food, etc) and be more likely to survive and pro-create.

At best Braine shows thathuman beings have an existence that transcends the body because they have language, but he does not show how or why only human beings and not other higher animals possess transcendence when they are all alike psycho - physical beings, because animals are not to be explained mechanistically either.

How closely does this model correspond to the structure of an animal body?

This is how I feed the soft animal of my body and how I nourish my consciousness.

Learn how the physical characteristics of body shape, leg length and foot type determine each animal's track pattern and apply this knowledge to solve track mysteries.

In this video you can see the spiral shape of the animal and how it holds its body when it walks

On the largest scale, the trend doesn't seem to be related to biomechanics, or how an animal's body parts are arranged and how its joints function, among other factors, Hirt says.

«Because body size is determined by how fast you grow and how long you grow, this work sets the stage for us to move back in time and answer evolutionary questions about why and how animals have gotten bigger.»

These chips are important for eliminating many early problematic amalgams, but animal tests are still needed to see how a drug is broken down by multiple organs in the body — the liver and gut, in particular — and how the broken - down metabolites circulate to other organs, the 29 - year - old San Jose, Calif., native says.

«These findings give us a better idea of how animals» brains couple with their bodies to move through the environment... how they manage to maneuver with incredible grace and agility almost everywhere on the planet,» said Sponberg.

A new study by University of Arizona biologists helps explain why different groups of animals differ dramatically in their number of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.

«Although we knew that temperature might set a maximum for body size,» Smith says, the new findings actually present a mechanism — and do so in a very detailed manner, showing «how animals responded to a particular temperature at a particular place at a particular time.»

This is an illustration how a Gardiner's frog can hear with its mouth: Top left: The skin of the animal reflects 99.9 % of an incoming sound wave hiting the body close to the inner ear.

The study provides information that could help explain how evolutionary pressures have affected body shape among sand - dwelling animals.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

Another important finding, Dunn and his colleagues report, was how these two body measures are related to the number of males in a howler monkey's immediate social group, which ranges from one to three animals depending on the species.

Since so little is known about how Zika virus behaves once inside the body, researchers also searched for evidence of viral infection in the animals» organs.

Nowadays, we can not only trace how the bodies of animals have evolved, we can even identify the genetic mutations behind these changes.

«The whole purpose is to study the responses of human and animal bodies to infection from influenza, Ebola, SARS and MERS, and to understand how they occur,» Kawaoka explains.

These robo - mussels pick up on how the animal's shell interacts with sun, wind, and tide to determine its body temperature — a subtle point that a plain old thermometer would miss.

If they do sport similar treads, Fronimos says, as with the sauropods, it will help paleontologists make «more precise interpretations about how these animals lived and what kinds of stresses their bodies were subjected to.»

«Now that we have a better understanding of how an animal is built we can get some way closer to knowing how the human body works in health and disease,» says John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, England.

The Strouhal number dictates how efficiently an animal moves through air or water by predicting how its body interacts with the vortices it creates through its propulsion.

«Importantly, we use mice as models of human beings in research, and so when looking for anti-obesity drugs, we need to fully understand the function of the NPY system in this animal model to understand how similar circuits in humans connect with the body clock.»

Visitors could also see how far they could leap like a frog, an animal that can jump a distance of more than 10 times its own body length.

In a study now published in the scientific journal eLife, a research group from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), led by Christen Mirth, shed new light on how animals regulate body size.

An explosion of recent studies in both animals and people suggests that resident microbes can influence susceptibility to diseases from HIV to asthma, predispose to obesity across generations, and tinker with how the body responds to drugs.

In previous work Tufts University developmental biologist Michael Levin found that patterns of electrical potentials in the earliest stages of an embryo's development can direct how an animal's body grows, and that manipulating those potentials can cause a creature to sprout extra limbs, tails or functioning eyes.

We're beginning to realize how much human and animal cognition runs via the body.

The researchers said the discovery means modern vertebrates originated in a world that was already populated by small and large - bodied physical extremes, in terms of how animals physically adapted to their environment.

Wroe and his team compared the skulls, teeth and body proportions of seven extinct mammalian predators with those of 22 living species, in a bid to better understand how the extinct animals behaved.

I asked this question in a more experimentally tractable context: How do body parts of a single animal become different sizes?

The discovery sheds light on the tiny «environments» that stem cells occupy in animal bodies and may help explain how stem cells in tumors replenish themselves, the researchers report in the May 8 issue of the journal Cell Reports.

How animals combine information from the outside world and from within their own bodies to decide what they should eat.

Top image: Illustration how a Gardiner's frog can hear with its mouth: Top left: The skin of the animal reflects 99.9 % of an incoming sound wave hitting the body close to the inner ear.

These findings suggest an important role for calcium ion signaling in regulating extrusion and could help improve understanding of how the bacterium leaves an infected cell and spreads within the body of an infected person of animal.

An animal's body condition tells it how successful it has been in the past, which is a useful guide to how it should behave tomorrow.

Differences in morphology are, of course, the developmental products of genetic differences between animals, but for a very long time it was not understood how many or what kinds of differences underlie changes in body patterns.

The Evolution of Animal Form How do body plans and body parts evolve?

An international team of scientists has challenged one of the key assumptions about how the body - shapes of the world's animals evolved.

Under a microscope, their cells and molecules are so similar to ours that many researchers use these and other animals to understand how the human body works — and to predict our likely responses to possible drugs or poisons.

She studies how animals» bodies function.

Which animal a lab uses will depend on how closely parts of its body or chemical - signaling systems match those in people.

The Ikmi group studies how the interplay between genetic and environmental factors shapes animal body plans.

Animals on the move must adjust their physical exertion as changes in the environment or their own bodies — muscle fatigue or a strong headwind, for example — alter how efficiently they...

The vegan - turned - carnivore is making a case for just how beneficial meat can be to the body, and the planet, with her line of ethically sourced animal products, EPIC.

No matter how you eat, getting a higher Plant / Animal ratio will provide your body the vitamins, fiber, antioxidants and phytonutrients it craves.

And then you have to account for how much eatings animals and animal products disrupt the human body e.g. what it does to our digestive system, what the harmful fats do to our hearts, etc..

His book sums up when and where our obsession with protein came from, how it has been perpetuated and how it affects our bodies (not to mention the environmental impacts of the entire animal agricultural industry).

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