Sentences with phrase «modern animal body»

Not exact matches

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

Modern Western diets, with higher contents of animal compared to fruits and vegetable products, have a greater content of acid precursors vs. base precursors, which results in a net acid load to the body.

«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.

While Payne and his colleagues did not directly examine why large modern marine animals are at higher risk of extinction, their findings are consistent with a growing body of scientific literature that point to humans as the main culprits.

«So it is a real exercise to get across, and the magnitude of that is illustrated by the fact that, before anatomically modern humans made the leap, no large - bodied animal ever got all the way across.»

The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.

The animal lived 11.6 million years ago and would have had a body mass of about 5 kilograms, roughly the same as a modern gibbon (Science, doi.org/8vp).

Modern animals with similar body types typically prefer to latch on to a hard substrate, like stone or, when available, glass.

«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..

Modern mimic: On Mark's Daily Apple blog — a Paleo lifestyle forum — a commenter optimistically proclaims that the «high animal fat, low carb Paleo / traditional whole food diet... protects against all cancers» because it strengthens the immune system and makes the body strong.

Named Rudapithecus (the discovery was made near the village of Rudabánya, and pithecus is from the Greek for «ape»), the animal had a body and brain about the same size as those of a modern chimpanzee.

The researchers said the discovery means modern vertebrates originated in a world that was already populated by small and large - bodied physical extremes, in terms of how animals physically adapted to their environment.

The main reason researchers thought otherwise, he says, is because Ediacaran organisms were soft bodied but are often preserved in coarse sand in a way that modern animals are not.

In modern scanning systems like the ones North Elm Animal Hospital has on - site and uses on our canine patients, the sound beam sweeps through the body many times per second.

Like humans, the animal body was never built for the chemical - laden food of modern society.

These antioxidant - rich fruits and vegetables will nourish your dog's body while also giving him the tools he needs to cleanse from the toxins every animal is exposed to in our modern day polluted environment.

A session on the microbiome (the community of microorganisms that live within the body of an animal or human) took delegates on a fascinating journey of modern technology and intriguing research insights.

Its technology, which harvests tissue from an injured animal and delivers the animal's own healing stem cells back to the site of the injury and throughout the body by IV, is nothing short of a modern miracle.

In modern scanning systems like the ones North Elm Animal Hospital has on - site and uses on our feline patients, the sound beam sweeps through the body many times per second.

Edweard Muybridge's animal locomotion series showing how bodies move through time and space led to the birth of modern cinema, which then strung together frames of grid - like imagery.

In the first one we find six works where the artist focuses on the female figure and the relationship between graffiti and modern figurative art, whilst in the second part of the show we find a collaborative body of work with Fabiano Zanino, fusing a deconstructed animal world with graffiti.