Sentences with phrase «of adapting to changing environments»

Emerson has a long history of adapting to changing environments.

«Species with smaller geographical ranges are naturally more sensitive to environmental change, and if the same community of species is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate.

And it is such a shame that homo sapiens is completely incapable of adapting to changed environments.

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Q: How do you help aging workers embrace a changing environment and adapt to new ways of doing things, and how can employers better utilize their more senior employees?

«With an ever - changing business environment, our economic plan aims to help our businesses adapt to the new technological reality and foster the competitiveness of Quebec to attract investment for leading players,» he said in a statement.

Digital Playbook for Entrepreneurs: Creating a Tech Startup USC Marshall School of Business professor Dr. Anthony Borquez will be joined by a special guest lecturer to discuss how technology is changing the world we live in and how entrepreneurs need to adapt to remain successful in an ever changing environment

Don't participate in the death of the B2B salesman; adapt to the changing selling environment and go into your prospecting conversations with the cards stacked in your favor.

This is backwards from the evolutionary theory of natural selection, which states that birds adapt and change in order to survive better in their environment.

In fact, Dan and I spent a good part of the drive home time talking about the environment in which he grew up, the different ways in which his brothers and sisters have adopted, adapted, or changed some of those original traditions as they develop their own parenting styles, and how we planned to bring up our kids — should we ever get around to having them!

All the theory of evolution says is that life forms adapt to changes in the environment over time; that there are global changes in the gene pool of a given population of animals over time.

The socio - economic change in motion by the plantations, diseases and epidemics, created a crisis of confidence in adjusting to or adapting with existence and environment.

Animals have to constantly adapt to a changing environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).

Like all youngsters, this child is adapting to its turbulent environment and actually incorporating social change as a phenomenon into its way of life and way of thinking.

If you look at the histories of both God and the Church you'll see that the religious adapt very well to changing environments.

By observing the religious ecology of congregations through these categories, Ammerman draws out certain patterns and tendencies in how congregations have adapted to their changing environments.

Resources: Ammerman lists a host of resources that assist congregations in adapting to their changing environments, including new programs, denominational partnership with local congregations, strong pastoral leadership, an energetic laity, education and imagination.

If their environment were to change rapidly they could all die off but there is a change that offspring may mutate genetically to adapt to that change and so on for millions of years.

Politics is essential because it includes all of the conscious, deliberative processes by which people adapt to one another and to the changing conditions of their environment.

The appearance of the substance is not separate from its actual identity: it is the substance in action, in relation to its environment, changing and adapting to it but only insofar as its formal unity, given in its relationships, permits.

Plus, many of the ingredients in this recipe are perfect for the fall equinox and helping our bodies adapt to colder climates and seasonal changes in the environment.

Well said... Sadly the excuses will keep coming along with a stubborn refusal by many fans to acknowledge that wenger is unable to adapt to a changed football environment... The man said he would stay at the club as long as he was moving it forward so if he has any integrity and honesty he would leave of his own accord... sadly all we will get is more existential drivel to justify his failure... Sad state of the club

Ronaldo adapts to changes very quickly in an kind of situation and environment.

For example, a baby who is slow to adapt to changes and who is responsive to even small amounts of stimulation would likely benefit from care that is structured with predictable routines and from an environment that is not too busy or noisy.

As your baby grows and the environment around both of you changes (in terms of germs, viruses and other icky stuff) your breast milk adapts to satisfy your baby's nutritional needs, and supply disease - fighting antibodies to keep her or him healthy.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

Today the technology is in the hands of a building - materials company called RavenBrick LLC, whose «thermoreflective» windows and walls bring to life my fictional scenes in which buildings adapt to changes in the environment.

According to Ángel Martín, a researcher involved in this study, «The framework can facilitate careful evaluation of various scenarios (such as competitor actions, fleet changes, fare changes, etc.) allowing the airline to be better prepared to adapt to the changing competitive environment.»

Changes to skin pigmentation pathways probably reflect selective pressures related to sunlight exposure that humans experienced as they spread out from humanity's origins in Africa to other parts of the world and adapted to local environments.

«Working through the engine of evolutionary change — natural selection — we can see evidence of animals» and plants» adapting to their environment before our eyes.»

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

But especially in such a rare coral species, a tiny boost of a few new individuals could make a big difference in their genetic diversity, allowing their populations to adapt and become more resilient to the changing environment in the oceans.»

This is not a fable, it's a tale of how people are already adapting to climate change, as revealed at the International Institute for Environment and Development's sixth conference on community - based adaptation to climate change held in Vietnam in April.

So the capacity of an organism to adapt to an environment is mediated through epigenetic changes in gene expression.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison wanted to know whether the last 100 years of selecting for corn that is acclimated to particular locations has changed its ability to adapt to new or stressful environments.

The brain's ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to form and store memories is due to the extreme flexibility, or plasticity, of its neural network.

But the biggest change came in 2010, when the Ministry of Environment was finally created, according to Paola Vasconi, a climate change specialist and coordinator of political affairs at Adapt - Chile.

«But the big win from self - assembly is adapting to changing demands and environments — in particular, addressing situations and tasks that the robot designer doesn't even know about at the time of construction.»

The authors say reefs located in northern Mozambique and the Quirimbas Islands supports two types of refuges and a gradient of environments that create the potential for corals to adapt to climate change.

The aim of their investigation was to explore how cranial size changed as our species adapted to an increasingly complex social environment between 1.9 million and 10,000 years ago.

Regardless of the specific numbers, Yeakel says, the findings «highlight the behavioural plasticity that can result when organisms must adapt to a severely changing environment»

The yielded data may help to improve scientists» understanding of the evolutionary changes adapted to ocean environment from whole genome level.

«The ability to adapt to changing conditions is going to become even more important as humans impact the environment, whether it's from ocean acidification or increasing temperatures or other types of global changes that are occurring.»

The findings provide clues into changes in social interactions during a time when people are thought to have been spreading into new parts of North America and adapting to different environments, beginning a period of cultural diversification.

Recombination is largely responsible for generating human diversity, the novel configurations of the genome that enable the species to adapt and evolve in an ever - changing environment.

Some of the gene changes will leave individuals better suited — or adapted — to their environment.

He is one of the world's leading researchers on synaptic plasticity in the brain and has pioneered new optical methods of observing the structural changes in the living brain as it adapts to its environment.

They focused their search on expression levels of two sets of genes, those that remained largely unchanged across all four species, suggesting that there was little room — or need — for improvement, and those that changed most dramatically, usually in the human lineage — an indication of powerful incentives to adapt to a changing environment.

Prof. Teeling's integrative research in the fields of zoology, phylogenetics and genomics uncovers the genetic signatures of survival that enables species to adapt to an ever - changing environment.

I'm interested in how species adapt to their environment and how this affects inter-species interactions and evolutionary diversification, particularly in the context of anthropogenic environmental changes.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.