Sentences with phrase «larger than evolution»

The bankers spent three months wooing the firms in their database with details about Accurate's financials and found serious interest from 12 private equity groups, all of them far larger than Evolution.

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evolution.

One may ask, as the comparatists too often fail to do, whether the Jewish and Hellenistic cultures, by and large the Bible and Platonism, are not stages in an evolution more than they are conceptions of the world considered as complete and heterogeneous types of wisdom.

These oils contain very large amounts of Omega - 6 fatty acids, way more than humans ever consumed throughout evolution.

In a paper published in the journal Systematic Biology and delivered at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference this week, Dr Phillips said biases in models of DNA evolution inflated estimates of when modern mammals, which were once no larger than a guinea pig, diversified and evolved into the animals familiar to Evolution Conference this week, Dr Phillips said biases in models of DNA evolution inflated estimates of when modern mammals, which were once no larger than a guinea pig, diversified and evolved into the animals familiar to evolution inflated estimates of when modern mammals, which were once no larger than a guinea pig, diversified and evolved into the animals familiar to us today.

But why didn't evolution produce any large animal with more than two eyes?

«For example, small stars live a lot longer than larger stars,» Kane explained, «and so that means there is a much longer period of time for biological evolution and biochemical reactions on the surface to take place.»

All animals eat, and oxidative damage during eating could play a larger role in evolution than previously thought.

And, remarkably, this so - called «convergent» evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a larger role than chance in developing this trait.

«If they are real, these changes are 100 times larger than predicted by current theories of stellar evolution,» says Villanova astronomer Edward Guinan.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

«This is by far the largest twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.

In the course of evolution, certain mammals, notably humans, have developed larger brains than others, and therefore more advanced cognitive abilities.

«This means that future studies on sexually deceptive pollination should also look at pollinator behaviour as a driver of floral trait evolution, as the role of flower morphology may play a much larger role in the pollination of these intriguing orchids than was previously realised.»

China's awesome Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.

However, further research into that field is necessary to investigate if the pattern of brain development in individual dinosaurs is also reflected in a large scale trend during the more than 150 million years of dinosaur evolution.

A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than earlier hominin species.

Not only was intra-specific gene flow among populations seen to be minimal at that time, but, somewhat incongruously, inter-specific hybridization, or the movement of genes among species, was seen to be a much larger force in evolution than intra-specific allele movement.

But while the X chromosome has remained large throughout evolution, with about 2000 genes, the Y chromosome lost most of its genetic material early in its evolution; it now retains less than 100 of those original genes.

From the human perspective, few events in evolution were more momentous than the split among primates that led to apes (large, tailless primates such as today's gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans) and Old World monkeys (which today include baboons and macaques).

He derived a prediction from an existing mathematical model of the Disruptive Selection Theory that states that for the evolution of males and females to remain stable, the ratio of the size of the larger gamete to the smaller gamete has to be greater than three.

«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»

They were small — the largest was no bigger than a badger — and paleontologists used to think that mammal evolution only took off once a mass extinction wiped all the non-avian dinosaurs off the planet.

Our results call into question the current emphasis on social rather than ecological explanations for the evolution of large brains in primates and evoke a range of ecological and developmental hypotheses centred on frugivory, including spatial information storage, extractive foraging and overcoming metabolic constraints.

The supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is about ten times larger than the one in the Milky Way, and is also consuming material at a faster rate, potentially increasing its impact on the evolution of its host galaxy.

A pair of studies on dark - eyed juncos, led by Indiana University led by Kimberly Rosvall, assistant professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Biology, finds that the gonads play a larger role than previously thought in evolution.

Far from being a rare, one - off event, Bordenstein's findings suggested that the microbiome has played a larger than expected role in the evolution of new species.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

CE: The various scales (such as time, temperature, and size) required — for example, in and around stars hundreds of thousands of times more massive than earth — are so large that experimental support for chemical evolution is necessarily limited.

February 27, 2002 Human and fly studies tally good and bad mutations, stress ongoing role of natural selection Natural selection plays a much larger role in molecular evolution than suspected.

Ys: Memories of Celceta — Vita — An extensive reimagining of (and pseudo-sequel to) Ys IV, one of the only Ys games never before released in the west, this title puts more enemies on screen than ever before and features the largest, most non-linear overworld in Ys history, boasting superlative graphics and a triumphant evolution of the fast - paced gameplay that has made this series a timeless action RPG mainstay.

Six - hour documentary series, narrated by Benjamin Bratt, looking at the nation's largest minority group and more than 500 years of its history contributing to the evolution of the country.

Seeing them all lined up reminds me of that image depicting the seven ages of man, the evolution from early 5 to current Clio graphically depicted before our eyes, each successive generation larger and more powerful than the last.

The aggressive, Lancer Evolution - inspired styling looks trim and attractive on this larger vehicle, making the Outlander Sport more classically handsome than the avant - garde Nissan Juke.

An evolution in the architectural style, from its supposed beginnings in the 1880s through to the 1940s, ensures that resort feels like a collection of individual boutique hotels, rather than a large resort, and each building is modelled after an academic department.

Skill trees are larger with more than one evolution of certain skills.

Through the configuration of digital colour photographs in a larger than life scale, this series conveys a collection of private stories from experience in dealing with love, loss, distance, and evolution.»

Aurally enlivened by Florian Hecker's electro - acoustic video piece Chimerization (2012), this room also includes four larger - than - life size phosphorescent drawings of mythological figures in various stages of historical evolution: a cave man with club in hand, drawn in 2012 by French illustrator Thibaud Herem, is juxtaposed with Francois Dallegret's 1968 schematic design for a cosmonaut suit for a Vitruvian man of sorts.

Darwin meticulously and patiently spent more than twenty years assembling his argument and evidence for evolution before the publication of The Origin of Species, yet a large portion of society still rejects that firmly established theory.

Over a 200,000 year timescale there are processes (such as large scale evolution of populations) which will play a much greater role than over a hundred year timescale.

Small creatures also reproduce faster than large ones allowing for rapid evolution and adaption to new conditions.

In typical Sony fashion, the design is an evolution of previous Xperia phones consisting of two slabs of glass, a rectangular shape with slightly rounded edges, and a flat top and bottom, with bezels that are larger than what we expect to see in this year's competition.