Indeed, there seemed to be no shortage
of human adaptations that conserve energy.
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.
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.
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.
«Study
of human adaptation to extreme environments is important for understanding our cultural and genetic capacity for survival.
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.
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.
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.