Sentences with phrase «of the known species»

This cuts against the loss of known species and of a certain number of unknown ones.

Reducing a breeding population to 1 pair, or 4 pair, or 7 pair, of any known species would result in that species going extinct in just a few generations.

Yes, Bigfoot would force us to modify our map of known species, but it wouldn't completely invalidate the Standard Model and all of our working assumptions about the observed properties of the natural world.

Its mission is to sequence the genomes of all known species of flora and fauna on Earth.

That addition to the list of known species is certainly not an attempt by biologists to artificially «maximize» species counts.»

A parasitic wasp identified from Uroleucon aphids in South Dakota cup plants, for instance, had characteristics similar to specimens of a known species, A. tissoti, found in British Columbia and Florida.

«In the process of trying to understand how that happens, we doubled the number of known species on Luzon.»

INBio's importance is clear when one looks at its productivity: The institute has led research on about 30 percent of known species in Costa Rica with the participation of more than 600 scientists from 42 different countries.

This painting shows six humanlike figures and two bristly animals of no known species, one led by a thong attached to its nose, the other being approached by two men with spears.

Using the Hi - C technique, the team identified a yeast belonging to the genus Pichia, which turned out to be a hybrid of a known species called P. membranifaciens and another Pichia species completely new to science, the team recently reported on the preprint server bioRxiv.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.

«It was a surprise, because the genetic sequences from the meat didn't match any of the known species,» says Scott Baker, a cetacean geneticist now at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, and one of the authors of the study.

They began by analyzing flies they captured under mosquito nets shrouding dissected mammal carcasses of known species, showing that DNA from the carcasses could be retrieved from the flies.

«In less than a year, we and other herpetologists doubled the number of known species of fishing snakes, showing that their diversity had been greatly underestimated,» he points out.

The fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar is just slightly larger than California but is home to more than 5 percent of all known species of plants and animals.

Steve: You know, today is also the anniversary of the death of Darwin, speaking of the human evolution with Kate, and just to finish up — am I wrong, but isn't the place you're most likely to find a fistfight at a conference, one of these human evolution anthropology conferences where people are arguing over whether that bone represents a new species or just an example of a known species or whether some artifact is again a new species or some kind of pathological example of an old species?

«This work compares the complete genome sequences of all known species of Leptospira to discover which genes make this bacterium a pathogen.

It was so prolific of species, the time was called «The Cambrian Explosion» I suppose it's comforting to know that so far life systems can recover from climate catastrophes, even if most of the known species die off (likely including us in the worst case scenario).

Crustaceans claim top spot in the sheer number of varieties among the planet's ocean life, comprising almost a fifth of the known species.

Rabbits have the shortest intestines of any known species — their intestinal tract only makes up 12 % of their digestive tract.

It is known as one of the most diverse marine environments in the world — there is more than 2,000 species of fish and 400 species of corals, this is more than 70 % of the know species in the world!

To put it in perspective, the figure shames the number of known species on Earth.

And interestingly applying 2,535 kg of pesticide per hectare of land, while having 8.5 % of its known species (birds, mammals and reptiles) considered «threatened.»

The sample locations and numbers of known species from different regions were mapped and the depth distributions of benthic samples plotted.

At current emissions trends, average pH of the oceans would drop from about 8.1 (current levels) to at least 7.9 in about 100 years (NRC, 2011a).22 A similar change occurred over the 200,000 years leading up to the end - Permian mass extinction, which resulted in loss of an estimated ~ 90 percent or more of known species (Chen and Benton, 2012; Knoll et al., 2007).

Not exact matches

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a household name worldwide, known as a hotspot for thousands of coral and marine species.

The fossils could represent the earliest known examples of H. sapiens ever found (if confirmed by further research), and they serve as evidence that members of our species lived beyond sub-Saharan Africa.

Sloths are known for how slowly they move, but their slow speed isn't just a funny quality they have — it's part of why their species has survived for 64 million years.

Hot products, no matter how unlikely their success (read Beanie Babies), are the most obvious of those endangered species.

Hopefully they will find and understand the beauty and interconnectedness of the universe, how little we know about it, and just how much we have yet to learn as a young alien species stuck on a rock that's drifting through the void.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

So Larry thinks I don't know ANTS as well as I should but I'm getting there when it comes to members of OUR SPECIES.

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.

Which we know that back in a certain point in time none of those species named existed.

Why are the Curches resonating with such ridiculing perceptions to denegrate a species» willingness toward wanting to know of se - x-ual-isms photographic or video - sense - oh-ramas?

I don't have to use my imagination to know that we have endless evidence showing the evolution of many types of species, including humans.

While there may be inaccuracies or things missing from the theory of evolution, the things that we know about it demonstrate to a high likelihood that the theory is an accurate model of the origin of species.

The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

Since its 1861 discovery in Bavaria, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, most scientists have placed Archaeopteryx at the root of the broad group of proto - birds, known as Avialae, from which our avian feathered friends emerged.

While «down» here, the «son» never once demonstrates that he has the slightest idea of anything not already known in the Iron Age Middle East, including about 99 % of this favored species.

To put forth such an argument shows just how little the commenter knows about the dynamics of the human species.

I know I'm not going to win you over with the idea of just how improbable something is, but would you not even for a moment think about how unlikely a humanoid species lightyears away could evolve so similarly to us along with such a similar religion.

You have eye witness accounts in the bible, you have present day people telling you he's there, knowing he's there, not belief, knowing, you have vast supernatural events like the big bang that happened once and never again, you have life starting up, species forming, male and female that have to be there for offspring, and lo and behold... you deny all of them because God being there, isn't what you wanted.

«On the sudden appearance of groups of Allied Species in the lowest known fossilferous strata: There is another and allied difficulty, which is much graver.

«The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.»

Definition of BEHAVIOR 1a: the manner of conducting oneself b: anything that an organism does involving action and response to sti.mulation c: the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment Glad that we know people are not born gay.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

we don't know 5) Which species are the ancestor of modern man?

We know that the vast variety of species is known by God.

We know from the science of population genetics how many breeding pairs of a species are necessary in order to supply enough genetic diversity for a population to survive.