Sentences with phrase «more ecological niches»

Not exact matches

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

«It is possible that the mygalomorphs were far more diverse and numerous than they are today, filling ecological niches that are today home to the more advanced araneomorph spiders, our familiar garden types.

While the Still Bay era is also characterised by highly innovative technologies — including engraving of ochre, use of personal ornaments, manufacture of highly stylised bone tools, heating silcrete (red rock) to produce better material for knapping bifacial points (spear points) using hard hammer and finally pressure flaking technology — the research team points out that HP's ecological niche expansion coincides with the development of technological innovations that were both efficient and more flexible than those of the Still Bay.

This is when Earth saw a rapid burst of evolution - life forms diversified and adapted to new ecological niches and began to interact with each other in more complex ways.

Newer research shows even more subtle genetic adaptations to dietary and other ecological niches which are adaptations to grains on a smaller scale.

Over time, you encounter more, and more varied, species, each with their own ecological niche.