Sentences with phrase «not individual organisms»

The second sort of mechanistic ecologist says the units in the game are not individual organisms at all but communities or ecosystems.

If the results can be replicated in other species, it will represent a boost for the hologenome theory of evolution — the idea that the object of natural selection is not the individual organism nor even just its genes, but also those of the microbes it hosts.

Not exact matches

Definition of BEHAVIOR 1a: the manner of conducting oneself b: anything that an organism does involving action and response to sti.mulation c: the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment Glad that we know people are not born gay.

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of holiness of life.

If he talks about the event character (1 / 10th of a second in length and all that) of the self, it is because he thinks that is what analysis of self - consciousness itself discloses and not because he means to construct the self out of subhuman individuals or organisms (Shalom's «event - cells»).

The fundamental thesis of Whitehead's philosophy of organism is that the final actualities of the universe can not be abstracted from one another because each actuality, though individual and discrete, is internally related to all other actualities.

For when monistic thinking of this sort prevails, individual organisms are not really appreciated for their own sakes and on their own terms.

That is, those events which are later than others lie in the same direction as the more evolved stages of the biosphere, the more developed stages of individual organisms, the more entropic states of closed physical systems, or the events of a causal chain which can be the effects but not the causes of a given event on the chain.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

The use of the term «purpose» here does not warrant, by itself, McHenry's conclusion that an individual organism alters the environment to «its own purpose,» although the passage does not exclude the presence of purpose in individual organisms.

The ability of biology to detail the organisation and constitution of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour of an organism, should be taken into account in the theological and philosophical discussion of free will, individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially in regard to morality.

Some experts do not believe that major changes and the appearance of new forms (i.e., macroevolution) can be explained as the products of an accumulation of tiny mutations through natural selection of individual organisms (microevolution).

It is not merely a matter of the machine which liberates, relieving both individual and collective thought of the trammels which hinder its progress, but also of the machine which creates, helping to assemble, and to concentrate in the form of an ever more deeply penetrating organism, all the reflective elements upon earth.

Evolution was not of major interest to most of these biologists, but insofar as they had a theory of it, it was a theory in terms of mutations of individual genes, carried by individual organisms and submitted to natural selection.

Next, a distinction was made between violence and force: The state is invested with force; it is an organism instituted and ordained by God, and remains such even when it is unjust; even its harshest acts are not the same thing as the angry or brutal deed of the individual.

While some of the metamorphoses that DO occur in nature, eg caterpillar into butterfly or tadpole into frog, are as spectacular or arguably even more spectacular than your fish to frog morph, the simple fact is that evolution doesn't happen to individual organisms.

He enunciated more clearly than anyone how creative evolution of living organisms can not be understood if the elements composing them are conceived as individual entities that maintain exactly their identity throughout all the changes and interactions, as is the case with the parts of a machine.

And in any case, an ecosystem can not die in the same way that an individual organism does.

The important thing about the zebra mussel is to not consider each one as an individual organism but instead, like a cancer cell, part of a greater scourge that metastasizes as fast as currents flow.

The ability to edit a single, carefully targeted gene in each organism means that individual members don't need to be the perfect genetic clones currently filling mouse and fly labs.

Based on his study of lichens, Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener was the first scientist to propose that some organisms are not autonomous individuals but combinations of unrelated species that work together.

The virus doesn't kill the cell, but it suppresses transcription and translation of genes, so the organism as a whole suffers but the individual cell looks OK.

Not only do the individual water samples contain information on aquatic organisms, but also land organisms found along the river.

Oldstone was interested in infections that can persist and cause damage to the greater organism but not the individual cell.

In their new study, the researchers did not isolate individual organisms from the forest soil, but analyzed the whole gene pool found in the earth, the metagenome.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

Social animals succeed in nature because they have unique and powerful group traits that individual organisms can't have.

The colonies of most ant species, including the harvester, are social, cooperative, seamless organisms, differing from what we think of as an individual organism only in that «they're not stuck together,» as Tschinkel puts it.

Although it does not change the basic rules of evolution, holobionts do have a way to respond to environmental challenges that is not available to individual organisms: They can alter the composition of their bacterial communities.

VY: I'd like to go back to the idea that evolution has created a beautiful canvas for understanding regeneration with all these different organisms that already exist in nature, and that we can learn quite a bit by querying not only individual systems but multiple systems that share this unique quality.

The practice of yoga and meditation teaches individuals that the mind and body are not machines - but rather living dynamic organisms needing to recuperate and recharge.

The organisms used in these products is tailored to the individual species — you won't get good results if you give your dog a product made for horses, for example, or vice versa.

While Iglesias clearly does not indulge in Baroque spectacle and has taken the fountain tradition far beyond mere lavish ornament, her uses of water seem to me to resonate with the deeper implications of Descartes» analogy, for the regular pulse of Tres Aguas evokes the mind - body symbiosis of every living organism as well as the reciprocity that needs to exist between nature and society, individual and community.

Automatism in art means the painter's confidence in the power of the organism to produce interesting unforeseen effects and in such a way that the chance results constitute a family of forms; all the random marks made by one individual will differ from those made by another, and will appear to belong together, whether they are highly ordered or not, and will show a characteristic grouping.

Nothing can be good for the tribe as such; «good» and «value» pertain only to a living organism — to an individual living organism — not to a disembodied aggregate of relationships.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.