Sentences with phrase «of adaptation to the environment»

But the neat concept of adaptation to the environment driven by natural selection, as envisaged by Darwin in On the Origin of Species and now a central feature of the theory of evolution, is too simplistic.

The study also reveals how the ground tit genome can be characterised by a range of adaptations to the environment it calls home.

But in Southeast Asia and New Guinea, you're back in tropical forests, so it's possible that we don't see microliths there because of an adaptation to the environment or due to lack of suitable raw materials for making them.»

These phenotypes are clearly the result of adaptation to this environment, but their genetic basis remains unknown.

The Darwinian concept of adaptation to the environment has become outdated with the scientific demonstration of the Gaia theory, which recognizes the Earth as an autopoietic whole, where living and nonliving systems intertwine in the same net of interdependence.

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Like the evolutionist that believes a fish walked out of the water and fins became legs so too our adaptation to reality without God leaves us unable to breath in the environment we came from.

For while, to the popular mind, natural selection conveyed a sanctioning of competitiveness and assertiveness in the interest of survival, to the more specialized mind in psychology and sociology and in the study of religion, it revealed the decisive role of environment and the importance of functional adaptation.

At the macroscopic level societies of occasions are preserved in their dominant patterns through adaptation to their environment.7 This adjustment is pursued ultimately not for its own sake, but for the sake of providing a stable actual world in which the constituent occasions may be nurtured toward the achievement of greater intensities of self - realization.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

Stegosaurus's plated spine is an example of what evolutionists call «adaptations,» characteristics that allow living organisms to survive long enough within specific environments to reproduce.

Those that know God may believe God purposed evolution to allow for adaptation of species to changing environments.

These are governed by aims at meaning and value that are often little oriented to the practical adaptation of the organism or the psyche to its environment.

These materials were combined with each other in all manner of ways, but it is important to see that the guiding principle of such organization was not practical usefulness in the adaptation to the environment, but intrinsic satisfaction.

In primitive existence, intelligent adaptation to the environment and unconscious symbolization, as a means of intensifying and ordering the psychic life, existed side by side.

Man is what he has become; and his present being is what it is by virtue of the long struggle for more successful adaptation to the environment.

The resulting modification of the symbols served the practical end of better adaptation to, and control over, the environment.

The mechanism of the evolutionary process is natural selection, the successful, that is to say capable of survival and propagation of the species, adaptation of species and populations to their environment.

The Theory explains it... change over time, adaptation to diversifying environments and ebb / flow of native species.

Likewise, the early Chicago theologians focused their inquiry on the function of theological concepts and ideologies, they tended to analyze their subject in terms of the interplay of organism and environment, and they thought in terms indicative of a context of adjustment and adaptation.

The principle of the graduated «intensive relevance» of eternal objects to the primary physical data of experience expresses a real fact as to the preferential adaptation of selected eternal objects to novel occasions originating from an assigned environment.

This was a much more rapid way of adaptation to a changing environment.

Let us take Lamarck's notion of «adaptation to a need imposed by the environment» and ask how the analysis of actual occasions may help us find its meaning.

Applying this insight, we can see how to use the time - honored expression «natural selection» in a more adequate way: evolution toward «adaptation» with the environment involves the survival of societies whose occasions aim to incorporate in a richer experience influences which might otherwise be destructive of the society's defining characteristics.

How is success to be absolutely measured when there are so many environments and so many ways of looking at the adaptation?

Whitehead notes that the upward thrust of evolution has produced animals increasingly able to adapt the environment to themselves (FR 4 - 5), and this suggests that «adaptation» concerns not only an occasion's mode of responding to a given world but also its mode of altering the world beyond itself.

The goal, or at least the effect, of such image adaptations of the Christian faith to the culture is to erase the distinctions between the Christian message and the cultural environment.

This information, when embodied in institutions and technological improvements, facilitates the adaptation of man to his environment.

Instead, he argued from a mass of evidence collected in different parts of the world, that «species» had originated by natural selection, by adaptation to the environment and by gradual evolution.

• Increases the possibility of adaptation to new environments in life's ever changing conditions.

According to evolutionary theory, the way something exists in nature is simply a consequence of the constraints imposed by the environment and the organisms resources for adaptation - not some ideal or optimal design imagined by an intelligent creator.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga, has said Ghana needs $ 22.6 billion in investments from domestic and international public and private sources to finance its 31 Programme of Action on climate mitigation and adaptation.

But A. deyiremeda and its neighbors do indicate that hominins with ape - size brains had developed successful adaptations to different environments, says the study's lead author Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

It's not until a million years later (0.5 - 0.4 m years ago) that consistently heavier hominins appear in the fossil record, with an estimated 10 - 15 kg greater body mass signalling adaptation to environments north of the Mediterranean.

«It's something that facilitates the constant adaptation of the human brain and behavior to the changing environment, which includes our social and cultural context.»

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This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

The hunter - gatherers also had a high frequency of genetic variants linked to reduced skin pigmentation — a known adaptation to environments with low UV radiation, such as those at high latitude.

Conversely, pursuing someone with a close (or semi-close) genetic makeup means preserving adaptations to an environment — think regional people having immunity to local strains of pathogens.

Thus, the morphological similarities that led to their classification into the same clade are not the result of descending from a common ancestor, but reflect adaptations to related environments (convergent evolution).

«It enables us to not only predict the effectiveness of growing different crops and other adaptations but also how human societies can evolve and impact their environment.»

According to an extensive genomic study, the two types of population result from tens of thousands of years of adaptation to their different environments.

It is apparent that the genetic differentiation of the two populations proves to be ancient and is the result of tens of thousands of years of adaptation to their different environments.

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.

When populations are separated (allopatry) over long periods of time, they accumulate adaptations to their environments and random mutations.

The fauna tends to be smarter than we give them [sic] credit for, in terms of adaptations and acclimations which they undergo in response to changing environment.»

dolphin and orca genome linked to eye development that could help in the study of cornea development, as well as elements linked to adaptation to high pressure environments that could help in understanding blood clotting disorders;

«A wheat line's adaptation to its local environment is probably one of the most important properties of the plant for wheat breeders because it directly influences crop production,» Akhunov said.

«Atypical development, then, might reflect an inability to adapt to an environmental challenge, or an earlier adaptation because of a negative environment.

«A more complete understanding of the yeast adaptation response to extreme environments, such as microgravity, and the risks associated with potential infection is vital for long - term crew health and safety.