Sentences with phrase «of species differences»

Because of species differences in how reactive eyes are to cataracts, inflammation, and to intraocular surgery, cataract surgery is not as successful in dogs (or other domestic species) as it is in humans and other primates.

http://www.vetstreet.com/ Stockphoto Cats need significantly more protein than dogs because of species differences in protein metabolism.

Not exact matches

Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.

The more time has passed between the divergence of two species the more differences exist in their genomes.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

Aristotle originally describes knowledge as a grasp of cause and essence: to know a thing, we must know the four causes of its existence and the essential genus and difference of its species.

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

Natural selection plays an essential role: the differentiation of difference» — i.e., the role of a dark precursor for the actual «origin of species.»

All species of wholes qualify as systems despite their considerable differences because they fall under this minimal definition of the real.

Because it absorbs sunlight better, which is required for the processing of vitamin D. Genetic differences that are advantageous to the survival of the species have a higher rate of survival and reproduction, and over eons of time, through geographic isolation and genetic draft, new species arise from the old.

It really shouldn't make that much of a difference though, we're all the same species.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

For by Hartshorne's own criterion of the difference between an analogy and a mere symbol — namely, that the first differs from the second in not drawing a comparison between God and one concrete species of entity in contrast to all others — any comparison between God and the thinking animal can not possibly be an analogy but only a symbol (1962, 134).

There are differences between human beings and other creatures, just as there are differences among various species of other creatures.

Our differences lead to the progress of our species.

What characterizes them is not the difference between the sexes, but the difference of orders and, within each order, the differences among species: There are the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the earth, etc..

«When you put breading on it and fry it, you can't tell the difference between our product or even what species it is because of the overpowering nature of breading and frying,» Little adds.

Botanically speaking Bell peppers and NuMex varieties are the same species, just different cultivated varieties, so I seriously doubt that there's any difference regarding the application of pesticides.

But this is not necessarily an indictment because there is no difference in the composition of the different pod types and varieties of the annuum species, except in flavor elements and heat level.

With vast differences in the physiology of different species and poorly conducted experiments, it comes as no surprise that 92 % of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests prove to be ineffective or even dangerous to humans.

In recent years scientists have found that members of many species, from hermit crabs to rats to fish, have unique dispositions, demonstrating consistent behavioral differences over time and across varying situations.

Other comparisons suggest the Lilstock ichthyosaur was at least 20 - 25 m. Of course, such estimates are not entirely realistic because of differences between specieOf course, such estimates are not entirely realistic because of differences between specieof differences between species.

Similarly, if you wanted to study environmental factors that influence sleep, you could examine sleeping patterns of different species in the wild and attempt to relate them to differences in temperature, photoperiod, or other factors.

Determining the differences between short and normal period clocks in spiders may help researchers find out why and how different circadian clocks are suited to the particular environmental challenges of each species, Moore said.

In places like Yellowstone and eastern Washington and Oregon, however, smaller wolf populations are too far removed from the remaining core of the species» distribution to really make a difference in controlling coyote numbers.

With enough data, geneticists can estimate when species diverged based on the number of genetic differences between them.

«Features and structures of the enamel layer have long been associated with differences in diet and tooth usage among animals, and can also help in the understanding the relationships among fossil and living species.

In early 2000 they decided to fund a project to develop methods to first prioritise those species at greatest risk, and then to identify those where DNA markers (characterised differences in DNA used for identity) were not currently available, but could be of potential use in enforcement cases.

In which Darwin considers individual differences and highlights the wide degree of variability within species upon which natural selection works

The scientists measured all the small changes in the bones and teeth of 904 placental fossils and mapped the anatomical differences between species on the tree of life.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

The key difference between species may be a matter of scent, seasonal timing, vocalization, auditory targeting of a particular prey, or some other trait.

A 1999 critique of primate mirror self - recognition studies in the journal Animal behavior said that differences between species could be due to the conditions in which they were reared, and that it was premature to speculate as to how the skill relates to other cognitive abilities, such as inferring the mental states of others.

This revealed that the plant was a close relative of the orchidaceous Lecanorchis amethystea, but clear differences in the inner part of the flower proved it was a new species.

«During our initial trial of the mini-Horhizotron, root dry mass of the herbaceous species tested and root length measurements showed little difference in growth between the substrate treatments or between the mini-Horhizotron and containers for the species tested at the end of the experiment,» the authors wrote.

One difficulty with using any morphological trait is that there are not enough experts in the world with a working knowledge of the differences that distinguish closely related species, whether it is the pattern of bristles on the genitalia of Anopheles mosquitoes, say, or the dorsal prickles in the pufferfish genus Lagocephalus.

The researchers compared the differences between the two sets of sequences to reconstruct how the H7N9 virus evolved through various species of birds and to determine the origin of genes.

In Asia and Europe they would encounter populations of hominid species from earlier migrations that had evolved their own differences.

The question is always where to draw the line: Are the differences just a matter of normal variation among individuals within a species?

Mitochondrial DNA has a fast mutation rate and hence is a quick - and - dirty indicator of a possible species difference.

Golden eagles are a species of conservation concern, so understanding population - level differences and how individuals interact with turbines is key to meeting a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service target of no net loss to their populations.

And also for you dog people, we won't get into it in much detail, but my column in this issue, the Antigravity column, I suggest a modest proposal, if you will; that in order to answer some of the charges of creationists that there is no proof of evolution — we never saw any speciation in action actually happen, well, why don't we just say, the differences dog breeds [are] different species?

If negotiators are successful at hashing out their differences, ideally then, a new day may dawn for the global preservation of species and science.

In fact, we did not detect a difference between species in the volume of soil reached by roots.

According to the authors of this paper entitled «The fossil teeth of the Peking Man,» there are similarities between the teeth of Zhoukoudian and those of other Chinese archaeological sites from a similar period, but they also highlight the differences from other teeth ascribed either to Homo erectus or other species of hominins from Africa and Europe.

The tentacles went just as deep as did the tap roots of other species such that the trees were not trading off structural differences for the ability to seek nutrients and water deep in the soil.

While one theory holds that the differences reflect species range — that maybe some species simply don't exist in some countries — our data finding microbes typical of the developing world at the mid-stage in Bangladeshi patients argue against that hypothesis.»

The study also shows significant differences between the parks in terms of species richness.

«This study gives us strong evidence from a widespread species that the stability of the climate makes a difference in the amount of genetic diversity retained within a species,» said Mager.

A new study by University of Arizona biologists helps explain why different groups of animals differ dramatically in their number of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.