Sentences with phrase «of human adaptation»

Everything on the island is waste, from bags of maggot - infested food to piles of glass and plastic bottles, and in this brief moment, we're left to ponder the waste of human adaptation.

By examining the sequences of nearly 200 human genomes, research led by Ryan Hernandez, PhD, assistant professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, found new evidence arguing against selective sweeps as the dominant mode of human adaptation.

«Study of human adaptation to extreme environments is important for understanding our cultural and genetic capacity for survival.

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

Those markers can tell the story of human adaptation as early man moved from equatorial Africa into lower - light regions, and may explain changes in skin pigmentation to metabolize more sunlight, or how indoor living has silently damaged human health.

Traces of such language contacts support that the mixing populations also mixed their languages as part of human adaptation strategies for this region and its precarious environment.

Indeed, there seemed to be no shortage of human adaptations that conserve energy.

Not exact matches

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

one adaptation easily seen in humans is amount of melonin in our skin to protect us from the sun.

@DOC in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

«in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

The series» second major idea is that the Stone Age adaptations bequeathed to us a shared human nature that is fundamental to both our scientific understanding and our sense of moral challenge.

Panthrotheism does not discriminate or believe the bible is wrong, in analogy no one can claim that our human ancestors are wrong because they were naked or ate raw meats.We have now to accept that we are evolving.What is important that we survive.and still love each other in general despite conflicts.No one is wrong in believing and practicing any religion that is pro life.Some people thinks that any contadiction to classical faith is wrong, un aware that humans survive the trials in history was because of change and adaptation, in short evolution.its not anti religiom

Further, all that can rationally be said about that absent requires it to be viewed as interacting with human purpose, as itself conforming in all respects to the purpose of order and law, and also as exhibiting telic adaptations serving the ends of life and beauty and sublimity.35

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

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.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

In the New Testament adaptation of this ritual, Jesus at the Last Supper looks forward to the salvation which he believes (as human) that God will grant in the death he realises as imminent.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

The evolutionary theory of Punctuated Equilibrium seems to apply to the human consciousness as well as biological adaptation.

The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.

Lincoln wrote, «In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

Pragmatic adaptation of the tradition seeks to make sure that God's rule over human life is still relevant.

Now suddenly a doctor comes along after 50,000 years of successful human biological and social adaptation and says «you don't have to do anything» and bingo.

Massachusetts, along with other states and nations, has a two - part approach to combating the effects of human - induced rapid climate change: emissions reduction (mitigation) and adaptation.

In 2013 The Journal of Human Lactation (JHL) published expert group recommendations to support the expansion of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative to include breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with «NICU Ten Steps» which is an adaptation of the original «Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding».

During this long history of evolutionary adaptation, human beings slowly evolved mechanisms and practices for childbirth.

The limits of adaptation are the underlying focus of the studies, said Kees van der Geest, a co-author of the overview and senior researcher at the U.N. University's Institute for Environment and Human Security.

The newly sequenced genome of the plague - causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests human adaptations are what have kept this disease in check

«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.»

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

The advent of the nucleus — which differentiates eukaryotes (organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus), including humans, from prokaryotes, such as bacteria — can not be satisfactorily explained solely by the gradual adaptation of prokaryotic cells until they became eukaryotic.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

It's not reasonable to expect that we can do a sustained exploratory program without the capability of testing systems and studying human adaptation to space in low Earth orbit.

«We are researching the evolution of today's diseases such as malaria to explain why the human body becomes sick at all and how adaptations occur.»

But the episode makes epidemiologists fear there could be undiscovered milder cases of infection by the virus, perhaps in younger people with no additional health problems, allowing the MERS virus to evolve adaptations that will help it spread between humans.

Instead of trying to train animals to do human tasks, she studied mental adaptations that corvids might need in their own setting.

TEMPE, Arizona — As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws.

By the same token, evidence of coastal adaptation can also mark human activity and a strategy for meeting the brain's growing energy needs.

In addition, although the adaptation of a larger brain may separate humans from their primate relatives, it also came at a cost of increased fuel requirements.

«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.»

«The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience against the numerous environmental degradations contributed by humans across the landscape,» said Dennis, who has a joint appointment in the UI College of Science and College of Natural Resources.

Drawing on Greenfield's theory of social change and human development, the authors hypothesized that the use of specific words in Chinese literature would wax and wane as a reflection of psychological adaptation to sociocultural change.

A new theory proposes that humans lost their thick fur as an adaptation to cut down on parasites and that smooth skin became a sexy symbol of health.

Is it a case of convergent evolution, with orangs and humans independently evolving similar adaptations?

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.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.