Sentences with phrase «hundreds of generations»

And, it's been used to effectively punk hundreds of generations of parents since then.
That will also be true for their children, and their children, and so on, for hundreds of generations.
Over hundred of generations, those cats best suited to living in feline colonies, have reproduced most successfully.
It may take many hundreds of generations if it can be done at all.
After hundreds of generations, a wide range of robotic behaviors had evolved to fill these niches, many of which were not directly useful for walking.
Without using written languages, Australian tribes passed memories of life before, and during, post-glacial shoreline inundations through hundreds of generations as high - fidelity oral history.
«I don't think we're talking about hundreds of generations, maybe dozens.
In previous experiments, the same SF State researchers found that the same strain of coccolithophores grown for hundreds of generations under cool and acidified water conditions grew less shell than those growing under current ocean conditions.
Instead, each colony evolved in sudden jerks, followed by hundreds of generations of little change, followed by more jerks.
One piece that has bugged me a little is that I don't understand how oro - facial habits could be THE causative factor in poorly developed dental arches (and subsequent crooked teeth) if hundreds of generations before us had perfectly straight teeth but had never addressed this issue (at least purposefully).
If you just keep breeding normal poodles together, you might after many hundreds of generations end up with a toy poodle, if there was some survival advantage to poodles who were smaller, but that would take lifetimes.
For hundreds of generations prayers were offered, sacrifices to the gods were made and prognostications were uttered by the oracle.
And as the lines between gender roles continue to blur, our brain architecture may eventually be sculpted to reflect these societal changes, though that structural transformation will take hundreds of generations.
Your circadian rhythm has evolved over hundreds of generations to align your physiology with your environment.
Nevertheless, Mead concludes, «there is no clear evidence of cats threatening to harm the overall population level of any particular species... Indeed, cats have been kept as pets for many years and hundreds of generations of birds breeding in suburban and rural areas have had to contend with their predatory intentions.»
They determined that if environmental conditions favor either very small or very large body sizes as opposed to intermediate ones, new species may arise in just tens or hundreds of generations as a result of assortative mating.
They have been culled for hundreds of generations for any sign of human - targeted aggression as a result.
Our study also suggests that cellular responses to future ocean conditions are not likely to be straightforward, as shifts in calcification may have less to do with calcification - related genes and more to do with intracellular regulatory processes in cells grown under continuous culture for many hundreds of generations.
Over hundreds of generations, through genealogies that span across different people, what is found in the book of genesis is astounding.
When I was wearing our baby, I felt a connection with the hundreds of generations of mothers worldwide who have used some sort of sling (or other apparatus) as part of their mothering.
Think of the hundreds of generations of shamans, bards and storytellers keeping safe the lore of the tribe by memorizing it to particular rhythms and melodies, down to relatively recent times: the Iliad was sung for centuries before the Greeks had a written alphabet.
Cornell University researchers have found a fascinating genetic variation that they said appears to have evolved in populations that favored vegetarian diets over hundreds of generations.
So if current science and hundreds of generations of healers say that bone broth works... isn't it worth a try?
The consequences of sleep deprivation are so intense because your circadian rhythm has evolved over hundreds of generations to align your physiology with your environment, and your body clock assumes that, like your ancestors, you sleep at night and stay awake during daylight hours.
Your circadian rhythm has evolved over hundreds of generations to align your physiology with your environment, and your body clock assumes that like your ancestors, you sleep at night and stay awake during daylight hours.
«there is no clear evidence of cats threatening to harm the overall population level of any particular species... Indeed, cats have been kept as pets for many years and hundreds of generations of birds breeding in suburban and rural areas have had to contend with their predatory intentions.»
Breeds exist because humans selectively bred dogs showing particular physical and behavioral traits for hundreds of generations.
By selecting the best herding dogs over the course of hundreds of generations, these dogs traveled with the Basque shepherds as they emigrated to Australia in the early 1800's.
The common context is the importance of sustained engagement on a big challenge — whether it is intellectual, as in revealing spacetime ripples, or potentially existential, as in pursuing ways to move beyond energy choices that are reshaping Earth for hundreds of generations to come.
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