Sentences with phrase «occurring over millions of years»

However, evolutionary theory does not consider such short time scales, but rather developmental changes occurring over millions of years.

The discovery won't mean much for climate change: The process occurs over millions of years, and the amounts involved are small compared with human - driven emissions.

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Over the past two or three years a bloody shakeout has occurred, with many solar manufacturers going bankrupt, including some in the U.S. (like Solyndra, which received $ 535 million in Department of Energy loan guarantees).

This assertion had three components: (1) The commenter estimated the cost over 60 days to be $ 250 million based on the on - going cost from the final 2016 RIA of $ 1.5 billion per year, (2) that cost savings over a 10 - year period were not provided to allow comparison to the negative effects on investors that would occur over the ten year period, (3) that industry cost savings were not projected out over 10 years using returns on capital in a similar manner to investors» lost earnings.

In February 2016, the Company issued to a service provider a 12 month convertible debentures at 15 % interest with a principal amount of $ 35,000 along with 35,000 3 - year warrants to purchase shares common stock at $ 1.00 per share The convertible debentures are payable at maturity, and convertible at the investor's determination at a price equal to 90 % of the price of a subsequent public underwritten offering if one occurs over $ 5 million, or, if no subsequent offering occurs, at $ 0.75 per share.

davidhmittelberg, so it has never occurred to you that after thousands of micro-evolutionary changes, over millions or billions of years, that you might end up with a creature that can no longer successfully mate with its ancestors?

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that youth ages 15 - 24 make up just over one quarter of the sexually active population, but account for half of the 20 million new sexually transmitted infections that occur in the United States each year.

It occurs naturally over a wide range of thermal environments, and has experienced such variety over millions of years.

For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment of international faculty is occurring across a wide range of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young faculty each year with a competitive salary and up to $ 1 million startup funds over the first three years.

«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

The Grants had shown that gene flow has occurred in the finches of Daphne Major during the past 40 years, but the new study found extensive evidence for gene flow throughout the roughly 1 million years that the birds have occupied the archipelago, which has helped the researchers update their understanding of how the lineages diverged over time.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 500 million cases of malaria occur each year, resulting in an estimated 1 million deaths.

In the Hawaiian Islands, geologists have found more than 25 individual collapses that have occurred over the past five million years — the blink of an eye in geologic time.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

In the New Madrid seismic zone, the team found that motion along the faults that are currently active has been occurring over many millions of years.

Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, scientists conclude in a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In the study, published in the journal «Osteoporosis International», investigators from the University of Tasmania, Anhui Medical University and Nanjing Medical University estimated that in 2010 more than 2.3 million osteoporosis - related hip, clinical vertebral and wrist fractures occurred in the population aged 50 years and over.

A genetic mutation that occurred over 700 million years ago may have contributed to the development of certain organs in human beings and other vertebrates.

«Though very rarefied by Earth standards, these interstellar clouds are the sites of complex chemical reactions that occur over hundreds - of - thousands or millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these cloover hundreds - of - thousands or millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these cloOver time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these clouds.

Processes that have historically altered the face of the planet, like cycles in the Earth's orbit around the Sun or shifts in continental tectonic plates, occur over tens of thousands to millions of years.

Every year, over 2.5 million people are newly infected with most of these infections occurring in developing countries.

These two subspecies currently occur in parapatry, hybridize over a large area in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula (Figure S1), and have diverged approximately 1.8 million years ago [20], [21].

Then, over a period of about 100 million years, subduction occurs on an enormous scale, completely recycling the crust.

Humic Acid is a naturally occurring «deep earth» substance that's a byproduct of humification, a process that has taken place over millions of years.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over sixteen million deaths occur worldwide each year due to cardiovascular disease, and more than half of those deaths occur in developing countries where plant - based diets high in legumes and starches are eaten by the vast majority of the people.

Fossilized remains of the olive tree's ancestor were found near Livorno, in Italy, dating from twenty million years ago, although actual cultivation probably did not occur in that area until the fifth century B.C. Olives were first cultivated in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean, in the region known as the «fertile crescent,» and moved westwards over the millennia.

Of that 17.79 million, 15.05 million sales occurred over the past fiscal year, or April 1st, 2017 through March 31st, 2018.

My own efforts will be giving talks on climate change (and its reasons) over the past 500 million years to local folks in this very rural region of upstate New York (before showing them the changes occurring recently and the reasons behind them).

Moreover, greenhouse gas concentration increases of the magnitude observed over the past two centuries have in the past occured only taken place on timescales of millions of years.

Changes in this balance over time lead to the changes in greenhouse gas concentrations that have been observed to occur on geological (millions of year) timescales.

Before announcing the closure of Northern in mid-2015, Alinta unsuccessfully sought $ 25 million in subsidies over three years from the South Australian Labor government to keep it operating until this year, to ensure an effective transition occurred, after a rapid rise in renewable energy made it unviable.

Given evolution over the past 500 million years when virtually all modern emerged and radiated largely occurred while the planet had no polar ice caps and atmospheric CO2 up to ten times current level, and the planet was green from pole to pole, and life did so well it was able to sequester huge amounts of energy in fossil fuel beds.

10 °C rises in global average temperatures have not only occurred during the last 600 million years, but they are the defining characteristic of the temperature record over that time.

So it seems possible that snowball earth may have occurred over 500 million years ago, but I don't there enough evident of this occurring or what kind of snowball Earth is was.

Over the last million years, the pattern recorded in cores of Greenland ice has occurred over and over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, repOver the last million years, the pattern recorded in cores of Greenland ice has occurred over and over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, repover and over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, repover: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, repeat.

Rokdoc (65), so, since these changes will occur — on a geologic time scale, I must add — as they have over the last 500 million years, then we shouldn't worry about human actions inducing these same changes on the scale of human lifetimes?

We estimate that an extended moratorium, which we now expect to continue because of Obama political calculus, will cost up to 200,000 higher - paying jobs in the oil drilling and oil service business and that the employment multiplier of 4.7 will put the total job loss at nearly 1 million permanent employment shrinkage occurring over the next few years.

However, the Big Five occurred over periods of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so Barnosky and colleagues also attempted to determine how long it might take us to reach mass extinction levels (75 % of species extinct).

To answer this question, the scientists examined a hypothetical scenario in which the Big Five extinctions occurred suddenly, such that all of the species went extinct over just 500 years rather than over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

The Coinhoarder thefts occurred over the course of three years but surged at the end of 2017 as Bitcoin prices soared close to $ 20,000, with $ 10 million stolen between September and December.