Sentences with phrase «in human adaptation»

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

(The study is titled «Enhanced Protein Translation Underlies Improved Metabolic and Physical Adaptations to Different Exercise Training Modes in Young and Old Humans,» proving yet again that research paper titling is where fun goes to die.)

one adaptation easily seen in humans is amount of melonin in our skin to protect us from the sun.

Light skin is an adaptation to lower UV conditions in northern lat.itudes after humans spread northward from Africa.

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

@DOC in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

«in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

Panthrotheism does not discriminate or believe the bible is wrong, in analogy no one can claim that our human ancestors are wrong because they were naked or ate raw meats.We have now to accept that we are evolving.What is important that we survive.and still love each other in general despite conflicts.No one is wrong in believing and practicing any religion that is pro life.Some people thinks that any contadiction to classical faith is wrong, un aware that humans survive the trials in history was because of change and adaptation, in short evolution.its not anti religiom

Further, all that can rationally be said about that absent requires it to be viewed as interacting with human purpose, as itself conforming in all respects to the purpose of order and law, and also as exhibiting telic adaptations serving the ends of life and beauty and sublimity.35

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

The ruling assumption seems to be that the human self is programmed in some paragenetic way to seek meaning by ever more appropriate adaptation to an ever - enlarging environment.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy taleIn Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy talein the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

In the New Testament adaptation of this ritual, Jesus at the Last Supper looks forward to the salvation which he believes (as human) that God will grant in the death he realises as imminenIn the New Testament adaptation of this ritual, Jesus at the Last Supper looks forward to the salvation which he believes (as human) that God will grant in the death he realises as imminenin the death he realises as imminent.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.

Lincoln wrote, «In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

In 2013 The Journal of Human Lactation (JHL) published expert group recommendations to support the expansion of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative to include breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with «NICU Ten Steps» which is an adaptation of the original «Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding»In 2013 The Journal of Human Lactation (JHL) published expert group recommendations to support the expansion of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative to include breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with «NICU Ten Steps» which is an adaptation of the original «Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding»in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with «NICU Ten Steps» which is an adaptation of the original «Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding».

Tigas, S., Sunehag, A., Haymond, M.W. 2002, Metabolic adaptation to feeding and fasting during lactation in humans.

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

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

Most adaptations in protein - coding genes occurred in the last 6,000 to 13,000 years, as human populations shifted from hunting and gathering to farming, they report.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

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.

These methods range from interventions in the environment like draining swamps, to genetic adaptations in the human body.

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

But the episode makes epidemiologists fear there could be undiscovered milder cases of infection by the virus, perhaps in younger people with no additional health problems, allowing the MERS virus to evolve adaptations that will help it spread between humans.

Instead of trying to train animals to do human tasks, she studied mental adaptations that corvids might need in their own setting.

TEMPE, Arizona — As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws.

In addition, although the adaptation of a larger brain may separate humans from their primate relatives, it also came at a cost of increased fuel requirements.

«The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience against the numerous environmental degradations contributed by humans across the landscape,» said Dennis, who has a joint appointment in the UI College of Science and College of Natural Resources.

Drawing on Greenfield's theory of social change and human development, the authors hypothesized that the use of specific words in Chinese literature would wax and wane as a reflection of psychological adaptation to sociocultural change.

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

Humans would never last in the ice - cold waters these creatures call home, but they have special adaptations to battle the elements

Ever since Darwin, scholars have speculated about the role that environment may have played in human origins, evolution, and adaptation.

The KU Leuven team is currently examining whether other pathogens show a similar increase in tolerance and whether the same process of genetic adaptation takes place during the treatment of infections in human beings.

Single - Cell Response to Face Adaptation in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

However, reliance by humans on cultural adaptations means that it is difficult to extrapolate from ecological relationships in other animals.»

«This paper represents a significant contribution to our understanding of human environmental adaptation,» says Toomas Kivisild, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the study.

This held true in both worm cells and human cells, which shows that the role of PRMTs in dopamine signaling has been conserved through evolution — a quality that often points to a particularly useful adaptation.

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.

But while dismantling the barriers of race, scientists have uncovered patterns of genetic mutation and adaptation in human populations.

But even the most fiercely devoted Polar Bear Club members are only human, and woefully limited compared to other animals that have adaptations for swimming in cold ocean waters.

Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»