Sentences with phrase «large human populations»

«What's particularly noteworthy about this work is we were able to present an integrative link from genetics, cell - and animal - based experiments, all the way up to clinical outcomes in large human population,» Liu said.

A study of how a monetary system can change behavior finds that filthy lucre may have been crucial for the evolution of large human populations.

Hopfenberg presents an excellent look at the idea of carrying capacity and ultimatley argues that the food supply will be the critical variable in determining how large the human population will get.

There are some places on Earth that should not be inhabited by large human populations.

However, glacial runoff, or lack thereof, has a direct effect on the nearby Indus and Ganges River basins and is very important for lower - lying regions where there is a very large human population.

The same organization of the world for maximum production that is destroying the capacity of the Earth to sustain a large human population is also destroying all natural systems of human relationships.

«Targeting the harmful changes in the microbiota in these large human populations with probiotic or antimicrobial therapies may reduce or even prevent their risk of developing obesity and its complications.»

If they were hunting horses on foot, they would have quickly depleted bands of horses in the vicinity of the villages and would have had to go farther afield to hunt — it wouldn't have been feasible or supported that large human population.»

But these poisons can neither be deployed effectively on islands with large human populations nor where residents disapprove of their use.

in the May issue claims that biologists say the concept of race is biologically meaningless, presumably because «any large human population has about 85 percent as much genetic variation as the species as a whole.»

Once transferred into the human genome, however, these alleles became subject to natural selection, which was more effective in the larger human populations and has removed these gene variants over time.

Once in the larger human population, those deleterious variants were slowly purged by natural selection.

For instance, corals, growing in turbid, «muddy» near - shore locations, often close to large human populations, have previously considered to be degraded, but have now also been shown to withstand levels of heat which cause coral bleaching elsewhere.

«With active management and small scale restoration the large human population of southern California and this newly described endangered species should be able to live together for many years come.»

Moreover, any large human population has about 85 percent as much genetic variation as the species as a whole.

And in what might prove an enduring lesson in conservation, paleoecologists have shown that 20 out of 21 large mammals in India — from leopards to muntjac deer — have survived there for the past 100,000 years alongside one of the largest human populations on the planet.

[1] Santa Cruz hosts the largest human population in the archipelago at the town of Puerto Ayora, with a total of 12,000 residents on the island.

Owing to its extraordinarily long migration on a coastal route that passes close to large human populations, it is probably the most viewed of any large whale.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is recognized regularly as an ecologically significant place with tremendous biodiversity, but which is also in close proximity to the greater Los Angeles area - one of the largest human population centers in the country.

Puerto Ayora is also home to the largest human population on the islands and there are some fantastic restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels on the seafront.

Larger dots represent islands with larger human populations, and colors indicate whether the future is projected to be more (red) or less (blue) arid than today.

The largest changes were in the Northern Hemisphere, where there are more land masses and larger human populations than in the Southern Hemisphere.

But to answer that question seriously: I do take threats to the planet's ability to sustain a large human population seriously, which is one of the reasons I support SB 827.