Sentences with phrase «of their large body size»

Mark Uhen, a paleontologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, adds that the study is the «first real test of the idea that the evolution of large body size in cetaceans is a dietary adaptation.»

However, whales of large body size likely arose multiple times in the evolution of sperm whales, and the majority of these large whales also had unusually large upper and lower teeth.

In members of the animal kingdom, fish, reptiles, and non-human primates express and infer power through expansive postures, large body size, or the perception of large body size.

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The evidence for the importance of board diversity is somewhat stronger than the evidence recommending board sizes of five or greater, in large part because there is a significant body of literature indicating that team diversity generally improves performance.

«The Presbytery of Springfield, sitting at Cambridge, in the County of Bourbon, being through a gracious Providence in more than ordinary bodily health, growing in strength and size daily, and in perfect soundness and composure of mind; but knowing that it is appointed for all delegated bodies once to die, and considering that the life of every such body is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callbody is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callbody die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callBody of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our callBody and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling.

This old wives» tale has now been negated by research [v], which has shown that the main factors that contribute to breast ptosis are: age, history of significant (> 50 lb) weight loss, higher body mass index, larger bra cup size, number of pregnancies and smoking history.

The size of the cardigan can easily be adapted simply by making larger or smaller hexagons, allowing you to shape the cardi to your body as you craft.

Fregata magnificens, the most aerial of waterbirds, possesses the largest wingspan (four to five feet) in proportion to its body size of any bird in the world.

8 layers of cotton in the body and 8 layers in the flap for sizes medium, large and XL for a total of 16 layers!

A newborn's eyes are 70 % of adult size, making them appear very large in comparison to their body.

CatBirdBaby has improved the designs for the original Mei Tais by making the body of the Mei Tai larger to enable a better wrap - around effect, and lengthening the supportive straps to create more allowance for use between people of different sizes.

The fact that children are smaller in size means that their skin presents a large surface area relative to their body weight for absorption of environmental substances.»

Colon cancer test Non-invasive, virtual colonoscopies — which involve a CT scan of the lower body — are as effective as standard colonoscopies at detecting large and medium - size polyps that can lead to colon cancer, according to the largest and most definitive study to date on the controversial technology.

Lavish Contoured Body Pillow has a large size of 60 by 38 by 7 inches.

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Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

The gravitational forces of these spiral arms could scatter outward the problematic boulder - sized bodies, allowing them to accumulate rapidly to form planetesimals large enough that gas drag is no longer a problem.

This week in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of scientists proposes a more nuanced model for extinction that also shows why animal species tend to evolve toward larger body sizes.

The findings are from the largest study of hominin body sizes, involving 311 specimens dating from earliest upright species of 4.4 m years ago right through to the modern humans that followed the last ice age.

This clustering of orbital parameters of the most distant KBOs suggested a large, planetary size body shepherding their orbits.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

Available in a range of sizes and weights, you can match the blanket to your body for the most relaxing experience possible or choose a large size perfect for two people over a queen or king size bed.

The authors conclude: «The findings from this large prospective study show that the association between body size and prostate cancer is complex and varies by disease aggressiveness; men who have greater adiposity have an elevated risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death.»

Regardless of the feathers» function, the researchers say, the new discovery reveals that a drastic reduction in plumage wasn't an inevitable consequence of very large body size.

«The gradual evolution of smaller and smaller body size would have allowed the bird predecessors to explore novel niches and body plans off limits to their larger relatives,» he says.

They determined that if environmental conditions favor either very small or very large body sizes as opposed to intermediate ones, new species may arise in just tens or hundreds of generations as a result of assortative mating.

With a body the size of a small child and a wingspan of up to two meters, the Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) is the largest owl in the world.

«In addition, we found that sexual selection favored males that were bigger and moved over larger areas, though the effect of body size can not be disentangled from last - male precedence.»

In gibbons, a part of the inner ear called the semicircular canals, which coordinates balance, is large relative to body size.

«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.

A paper in this week's Science, using 10 days of early data gathered by Kepler, demonstrates the spacecraft's ability to spot large planets and provides encouragement that Earth - size bodies are within its reach.

But an analysis of their DNA suggests that the largest lemurs were more prone to extinction than smaller - bodied species because of their smaller population sizes, according to this team of American and Malagasy researchers.

In contrast, migration ranges of soaring birds, illustrated by raptors, vultures, and albatrosses that migrate globally with minimal energy consumption, are larger than those of flapping birds and independent of body size.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.

Since that discovery hundreds of large objects, most more than 100 kilometers in diameter, have been spotted in the Kuiper Belt, including some of the roughly Pluto - size bodies that spurred a redefinition of the word «planet» and relegated Pluto to dwarf status.

«We've found that extinction threat in the modern oceans is very strongly associated with larger body size,» said Jonathan Payne, a paleobiologist at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

But now Rebekah Dawson from the University of Western Australia in Perth has documented the behaviour in both large and medium sized wallabies, and shown the behaviour is driven not just by size, but rather the animal's habitat and overall body plan.

It is the largest fossil rodent ever found, with an estimated body mass of 1000 kg and was similar in size to a buffalo.

With a diameter of about 1,215 km, the France - sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune.

The two oldest and distinct groups of squid eaters, sperm whales and beaked whales, grew large body sizes because of the physiological demands for diving to the great depths where their prey lives — a pattern that pilot whales repeated.

Maximum sea depth between the mainland and islands was a secondary driver of body size, with treeshrews on islands separated from the mainland by deeper waters typically exhibiting larger body size, the researchers said.

This vocal system means that howlers give the acoustic impression of animals with much larger bodies, and can indeed roar louder and deeper than creatures ten times their size.

Bergmann's rule holds that populations of a species in colder climates — generally located at higher latitudes — have larger body sizes than populations in warmer climates, which are usually at lower latitudes.

The island rule predicts that populations of small mammals evolve larger body size on islands than on the mainland, whereas island - bound large mammals evolve smaller body size than their mainland counterparts.

With their unusually large brains relative to their body size and advanced cognition, parrots live in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competitors.

The small body size suggests that the species had a limited range, and did not migrate like the large whales of modern oceans.

The first results using fully tracked and immersive head - mounted - displays demonstrate that one can experience presence in a larger space (i.e. a beach), experience an altered virtual body (i.e. a more comfortable posture) and that the experience of the body size influences the perception of space.

Although Lucy had a brain and body the size of a large chimp — and probably slept in a tree nest — she walked fully upright and her species may already have lost its agility in trees as it adapted to life on the ground.

To do all this, a tick needs legs that can grip a large variety of surfaces, anchor the tick when a host is trying to scratch it out, and support the huge increase in body weight as it feeds — a female tick can swell to 135 times her initial size after a blood meal.