Sentences with phrase «modern animals contain»

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Why is it that animal viruses seem to be responsible for virtually every modern plague — West Nile, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, and most recently, the frightening (but so far contained) outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia?

The site contains abundant fossils, diverse assemblages of Triassic animals including relatives of crocodylians, giant - headed amphibians and ancient relatives of modern mammals called cynodonts.

The find means the branch on the tree of life that contains modern birds is now surrounded by animals with four wings, says Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, which suggests the four - wing condition may have been an important step in the origin of birds.

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].

Not all native diets were equal, however: those in which animal foods were virtually absent, for example, produced much lower rates of tooth decay than found on modern, refined diets, but much higher rates of tooth decay than found on diets containing a significant amount of animal foods.

The meat of game animals living on wild plants and grass also contains much higher amounts of omega - 3 fatty acids than does the meat of modern domesticated animals.

«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.

The also eat the organ meats of animals and fish, including livers, kidneys and more which contain the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K which offer protection against not only heart disease, but cancers, diabetes and the other so called «diseases of modern civilisation».

Jeff — The paper you had published a few years ago on coprolites from the desert which contained lots of inulin and animal remains makes me think a modern - day person could thrive on a low carb paleo diet with a focus on resistant starch and fibrous veggies.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).