Sentences with phrase «human adaptation»

We also report a number of human adaptations already underway that may increase resilience in the face of climate change.

Some recent human adaptations with known genetic histories nicely illustrate this principle.

This combination of uncertain projections, local and global effects, and potential for human adaptation makes it difficult to attribute current, much less future, changes and trends in Montana agriculture solely to climate change.

Those markers can tell the story of human adaptation as early man moved from equatorial Africa into lower - light regions, and may explain changes in skin pigmentation to metabolize more sunlight, or how indoor living has silently damaged human health.

Lead author, Dr. Cameron Petrie of the Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge notes that «for most ancient complex societies, water was a critical factor, and the availability of water and the way that it was managed and used provide critical insight into human adaptation and the resilience of subsistence practices.»

«Humans in this region thrived through the Toba event and the ensuing full glacial conditions, perhaps as a combined result of the uniquely rich resource base of the region and fully evolved modern human adaptation,» study authors noted.

It's not reasonable to expect that we can do a sustained exploratory program without the capability of testing systems and studying human adaptation to space in low Earth orbit.

The newly sequenced genome of the plague - causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests human adaptations are what have kept this disease in check

The biosphere's public relations team tried to put a brave face on the situation, announcing that the «experiment in measuring human adaptation to lower oxygen levels» was ending.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

«Given the importance of the microbiome in human adaptations such as digestion, smell and the immune system, it would appear very likely that the human microbiome has had an effect on speciation,» Bordenstein says.

Traces of such language contacts support that the mixing populations also mixed their languages as part of human adaptation strategies for this region and its precarious environment.

Patients with AD or MCI - AD are impaired in real - space, 2D, and virtual human adaptations of the Morris maze (11, 12).

Matteo Fumagalli's paper on local human adaptation was the subject of a couple of news stories.

«Bipedalism is a key human adaptation that appears in the fossil record by 6 million years ago (Ma).

A third limitation is that we have inadequately explored how human adaptations to ecosystem change may mediate the resulting health impacts.

He will essentially demonstrate to the world that being in a state of ketosis (burning fat as opposed to carbohydrates) is an extremely efficient human adaptation permitting long stretches of efficient physical activity.

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), a documentary about corruption, crime and human adaptation during difficult circumstances, is a slick, sly and beautifully shot documentary.

Which is all to say, that while humanity will adapt to a climate changed world is true, there is no doubt that climate change will create, in comparison to today, let alone a pre-industrial, lower population world, a world that is less bountiful, prone to more extremes of temperature and weather in many places, less fecund — and since we're talking about human adaptation, more difficult to live in and less conducive to human civilization.

Of the 581 HA sequences, six swine strains already contain the standard HA mutations necessary for human adaptation, and are thus capable of entering the human population either directly or via genetic reassortment, Sasisekharan says.

«Our findings suggest that recent human adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of single changes of large effect, but through shifts of frequency in many places of the genome,» said Molly Przeworski, PhD, professor of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the paper.

«Many of the signals, however, seem to be more specific to modern human adaptation,» he said, «like skin pigmentation, which may respond to changes in habitat, or metabolism genes, like lactase, which may respond to changes in agriculture.»

«Study of human adaptation to extreme environments is important for understanding our cultural and genetic capacity for survival.

The main goal of WRI is to protect the global climatic system from further harm caused from greenhouse gas emissions, and assist in human adaptation to climate change that seems to be unavoidable.

The Human Quest seems to rest on the slightly veiled assumption that religious traditions are among those human adaptations that, according to science, the evolutionary process has selected against.

The multi-center study, Evidence for human adaptation and Foodborne Transmission of Livestock - Associated Methicillin - Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, published today in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, was an international collaboration involving 25 institutions and led by researchers at the Milken Institute SPH, the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Flagstaff, AZ..

Indeed, there seemed to be no shortage of human adaptations that conserve energy.

That may be a result of mouse and human adaptation to their respective environments,» said Dr. Ren, who is also a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego.

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

She has created some of the most widely used algorithms to mine our genome for instances of human adaptation, and created powerful molecular tools to elucidate their underlying biology.

Researchers investigate riverbank erosion, human adaptation, and resilience in coastal Bangladesh

«It suggests that human adaptation, like most common human diseases, has a complex genetic architecture.»

By examining the sequences of nearly 200 human genomes, research led by Ryan Hernandez, PhD, assistant professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, found new evidence arguing against selective sweeps as the dominant mode of human adaptation.

«The idea that human adaptation might proceed by single changes at the amino acid level is quite a nice idea, and it's great that we have a few concrete examples of where that occurred, but it's too simplistic a view.»

Everything on the island is waste, from bags of maggot - infested food to piles of glass and plastic bottles, and in this brief moment, we're left to ponder the waste of human adaptation.

Bound by the artist's ongoing research into climate change and human adaptation, the projects focus on transformative collisions between water and both the human figure and architectural forms.

I used to read more from Treehugger, Inhabitat, etc, but have moved away from some of the «gear - head» blogs and would now rather spend my time reading about ecology and climate shifts, human adaptation, agriculture and food, environmental economics, and comprehensive systems design.

Human adaptations for mating: Frameworks for understanding patterns of family formation and fertility.