Sentences with phrase «in deep time»

Now another puzzle has finally been solved: the source of the river in deep time.

Nevertheless earliest conditions and their origin are disguised in deep time.

The team explored the largest dataset used in an analysis of this type and applied a range of computational evolutionary models to understand these patterns in deep time.

Plus the science of climate in deep time: Dana Royer takes us back 420 million years.

Luke added: «Our discovery highlights an unexplored window for tracking animal evolution in deep time.»

Biology, magnetism and the chemistry of isotopes are the markers geologists typically use to tell the tale of changeovers in deep time, whether the Ordovician period or the Anthropocene epoch (the latter just a small slice of the Quaternary period that began more than 2.5 million years ago and has its own golden spike in Sicily).

«I think the access to samples in both deeper time and from more complicated remains is still a limiting factor because of these rather rudimentary extraction techniques,» he says.

A mutation that is near - universal in Asia, for instance, but near - absent in Africa is most likely a sign that somewhere in deep time a small group of founders with that marker left Africa and started a new population in Asia.

«It isn't shocking that we find evidence of mutual tolerance and perhaps cooperation between males in a hominin that lived 1.5 million years ago, especially Homo erectus, but this is our first chance to see what appears to be a direct glimpse of this behavioural dynamic in deep time,» says Hatala.

«Embryology can tell us about the evolutionary relationship between anatomical features in living animals, while palaeontology can pinpoint precisely when these features first appear in deep time.

Thinking about our place in deep time is a good way to focus on the challenges that confront us today, and to make a future worth living in.

«The point is that, if you look, you can actually find remains of soft tissues in deep time,» says Reisz.

«Now we have greater confidence that volcanism and its effect on the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere drove climate change in deep time,» says Kump.

We could fairly posit that the evolutionary origin of the eukaryotic cell was «the first time that what went around came around», a quid pro quo with among primitive organisms in deep time.

The origins of all modern cells occurred in deep time of the Archaean.

Our approach has wide applicability for testing hypotheses concerning organismal co-occurrences in deep time.

My work focuses on the interactions between Earth and life in deep time.

Mr. Eleey describes Mr. Leckey as sitting «on the cusp of the transition from analog to digital, which allows us to look at the effect of technology in a way that's grounded in a deeper time.

«The existence of fossil forests at high latitudes above modern treeline provides an insight into environmental conditions in deep time and may provide an indication of high latitude ecosystem response to future global warming.

By asking about civilizations lost in deep time, we're also asking about the possibility for universal rules guiding the evolution of all biospheres in all their creative potential, including the emergence of civilizations.

The worst fault of the article, though, is that it leaves the reader with the impression that there is something in the deep time Phanerozoic climate record that fundamentally challenges the physics linking planetary temperature to CO2.

The researchers showed that mammals largely occupied the same niche in Deep Time and reinforced the theory that families may inherit their ranges from their ancestors.