Sentences with phrase «modern animal groups»

The findings, published online today in the journal Current Biology, resolve «Darwin's dilemma»: the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period.

Not exact matches

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

C. kunmingensis belongs to a group of animals called fuxianhuiids, and was an early ancestor of modern arthropods — the diverse group that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans.

«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.

As no other taxonomic group contains terrestrial animals in the size classes of the large modern mammals, the functional loss of large mammals can rarely be compensated, leading to permanent ecosystem changes [49].

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).

More than 100 scientists, animal welfare officers, representatives of advocacy groups and stakeholders from different countries met for a 2 - day conference in San Francisco to discuss how to improve transparency and to increase the public understanding of the essential contributions that animal research makes to modern life science and biomedical research.

The environment in which the PETM took place was therefore very different to that of the Cretaceous, and many modern groups of plants and animals were diversifying at this time.

«From the chemical standpoint,» the critical difference between «efficient» native diets and diets characterized by the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» according to Dr. Price, was that «all the efficient dietaries were found to contain two to six times as high a factor of safety in the matter of bodybuilding material, as the displacing foods» (emphasis added).11 The foods that served a «bodybuilding» purpose varied substantially according to the group and location studied, but in all instances, traditional societies emphasized the most nutrient - dense land and sea animal and plant foods that could be obtained in their context, ranging from the exceptionally high - vitamin dairy products, whole rye sourdough bread and occasional meat of the isolated Swiss to the fish, cereals and sweet potatoes of Kenya's Maragoli tribe.

She then throws in sub-plots about the protagonist's extramarital affair, a radical animal - rights group, modern - day murders, conspiracies between arms dealers, pharmaceutical companies and researchers... and it just becomes too much.

«iVET360 services have been carefully designed with the modern veterinarian practice in mind,» said Animal Care Group of Lake Oswego owner Gregg Takashima, DVM.

The upcoming group exhibition «Feral Creatures» at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco is not a documentary portrayal of the animal kingdom.

, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2013 The Living, Kunstverein München e.V., Munich 2012 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium 2011 Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us II, Maureen Paley, London 2010 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago 2009 Feelings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue) 2007 Large Concretised Monument to the Twentieth Century, Chiswick Business Park, London (Permanent installation) Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2005 Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art — for the young and young at heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York Pas de Deux, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne 2004 Dark Passage, Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue) Family Badge, Antiquariat Buchholz, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2003 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago The Boiler Room, The Saatchi Gallery, London SHE, Maureen Paley, London 2002 Fleischvater, Modern Art, London 2000 The Agony and the Ecstasy, Maureen Paley, London 1995 Manliness without Ostentation..., the Agency, London 1993 I Have Every Vice in the World, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford Selected Group Exhibitions: 2018 Anna Fasshauer Michail Pirgelis Rebecca Warren, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings, Tate St Ives, UK.