Sentences with phrase «individuals of a species»

In other words, the individuals of each species of migratory bird are slowly diminishing in number.

We are accustomed to regard a man as an individual of the species «man,» a being endowed with definite capacities, the development of which brings the human ideal in him to realization — of course with variations in each individual.

Thomas's reply is that something can be a certain something in two ways: either as a complete subsistent individual of a species (as Socrates is of the species man), or in a more generic sense that does not exclude parts, incomplete as they may be, from subsistence.

But if the same individuals of that species start developing large wings they would outcompete those lineages that had small wings, resulting in their extinction.

Other, rather similar but not identical patterns are individuals of the species Homo sapiens, a great multitude of less similar patterns are representatives of other animal and plant species.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

But beyond acquiring a meal, cannibalism enables individuals of some species to accelerate their developmental process, as we saw with spadefoot toads, allowing them to quickly outgrow a stage in which they might be preyed upon or perish due to unpredictable environmental conditions.

Nor does it include the possibility of larger individuals of the species; one of the leg bones used in the team's model had to be shrunk about 15 % to get it to fit well with its neighboring bones from other creatures, which suggests that considerably larger and heftier S. giganteum existed.

For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape.

Despite changes in their environment, individuals maintain their tendencies, such as being more or less active and exploratory, relative to other individuals of their species.

Of course, individuals of some species do look more alike than individuals of some other species.

The less genetic variability there is among individuals of a species, the more closely they will resemble one another.

But if all individuals of a species go without sex, over time harmful mutations build up and the species can die out.

In terms of size, there wasn't much difference in how brains varied among family members: Closely related individuals of both species tended to have very similar brain volumes.

«Today, we have 700 to 750 individuals of the species,» says Martin, «but if action is not taken now, the white - headed duck could soon be outbred by the invading ruddy duck, and wiped out in Spain, the only Western European country with a viable population.»

Tolerances have also been determined for adult individuals of some species, and these have lain — as expected — at a higher level.

The bottleneck of many studies has now shifted to the number of species and individuals of each species that can be included in the study.

Although the fungal filaments and spores are microscopic, the colony can be very large with individuals of some species rivaling the mass of the largest animals or plants.

LIMA guidelines require that consultants always offer the learner as much control and choice as possible during the learning process, and treat each individual of any species with respect and awareness of the learner's individual nature and needs.6

You wait until the magic day when most of the individuals of that species mass together and enter synchronous spawning mode.

How can we justify (to reduce their numbers) the massive killing of individuals of any species, individuals who feel the same kinds of emotions we ourselves feel?

Mammals found on the island include: subantarctic fur seals, Antarctic fur seals, New Zealand fur seals and southern elephant seals — over 80,000 individuals of this species.

Its somewhat threatening behavior, mimicking the rattlesnake, will sometimes get individuals of the species killed unnecessarily.

It is to the galaxy's credit that, when we put out the call for volunteers, we were answered by individuals of every species from Citadel, Traverse, Terminus space, and most significantly for this operation, the PlayStation Network.

Think of the total number of individuals of a species as being the water in a large urn.

The abrupt impact of climate change on causing extinctions of key concern, therefore, is its potential to deplete population sizes below viable thresholds within just the next few decades, whether or not the last individual of a species actually dies.

Such losses of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk of extinction due to causes other than climate change by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.15 The second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss of the last individual of a species.

This extent of habitat destruction and fragmentation means that even if individuals of a species can move fast enough to cope with ongoing climate change, they will have difficulty dispersing into suitable areas because adequate dispersal corridors no longer exist.

Since individuals of this species are usually occupied by obligate acacia - ants, the Beltian bodies are rarely seen because they are usually «harvested» as soon as the young leaves develop.

Not exact matches

[This is] one of my favorite reads [and] traces the development of our species» thinking, and how the individual mindset transformed into a pack mentality.

Cultural psychologist Jerome Bruner says curiosity is so important that it «is essential to the survival not only of the individual but of the species».

They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»

@John — Perhaps you should read E. O. Wilson's «Sociobiology: The New Synthesis» for a better understanding of how specific individual behaviors may favor overall reproductive fitness for a species where, frequently, these behaviors appear to be to the detriment of the individuals involved.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

There are a wide range of reproductive strategies resulting from the competing interests at various levels of selection, that is, the level of individual genes / gene clusters, the level of the individual and the level of the population / species.

Our species has flourished — or come to dominate the other species — not because of the techno - freedom displayed by individuals, but because we are the most «eusocial» of the highly intelligent animals.

-LRB-...) The pictures are simply a grouping of individual species that does not prove evolution.

The evolutionist will claim that the presence of many individual species proves evolution.

Evolutionists try to form these individual species into a link according to similar major features such as wings or four legs, but this simply proves the Theory of Evolution to be a fraud.

Morals come from an evolved social construct, or set of rules established by society in order for a group of a species to work together in harmony for the greater good of the group and therefore the individual.

Definition of BEHAVIOR 1a: the manner of conducting oneself b: anything that an organism does involving action and response to sti.mulation c: the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment Glad that we know people are not born gay.

... an individual is something more than a member of a species.

This means, of course, engaging in difficult and complex decisions of justice and care, as we seek to determine the economic, social, political, and cultural rights of individuals in our own species and as we pay attention to the rights of the silent, nonvoting majority which is made up of all the other species.

It is obvious that not all species, let alone all individuals in any species, survive and flourish — for a variety of reasons.

The focus of investigation is neither the human species in general, nor individual persons, but persons in association.

My understanding of evolution is that those species which survive are those that can procreate the most efficiently and effectively, those individuals and species that are unable to procreate go extinct.

Individual leaders in the corporate world may be deeply concerned about species diversity, global warming, the pollution of the oceans, the loss of forest cover, and many other matters.

Thus, instinct multiplies itself into species — into the instinct of a squirrel which is not that of a cat nor that of an elephant.16 Each specific instinct is multiplied individually by the multiplication of individuals of the given animal species.

Is it certain that we can extrapolate the general evolutionary curve of the species (phylogenesis) on the lines of the evolutionary pattern of the individual (ontogenesis) without making any correction?