Sentences with phrase «on early evolution»

Being more specific, we are focused on early evolution, which is a fascinating but very incomplete field.

I think we can shed a lot of light on early evolution of our own use of language by studying the vocalisation of animals that are socially and behaviourally similar to us, if not necessarily taxonomically closely related.»

Like a lot of the island fauna, says Fisher, it opens a window on early evolution.

A new species, Chongmingia zhengi, reported in the journal of Scientific Reports on 25 January 2016, sheds light on the early evolution of birds.

This discovery challenges the fundamentals of echinoderm evolution with respect to end - Permian survival and sheds new light on the early evolution of the modern clades, in particular on Triassic ghost lineages of the crown - group look - alikes of the Paleozoic hangovers.

The new species gives important additional information on the early evolution of coelacanths.

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Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remeEarly on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remeearly in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

Positioning yourself early is everything when it comes to capitalizing on the next evolution of the internet.

Co — authored with web - comic creator, Zach Weinersmith, and author, Phil Plait, the «Science Pack» is a $ 10 expansion pack dedicated to all things scientific, including global warming and evolution, and went on sale earlier this year.

The early users were highly proficient at games and provided many ideas for the game's evolution («mods»), posting changes to the game on line, which encouraged others and started an upward spiral of sales, modifications and debugs.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

Both draw from the sciences of their day: Schleiermacher on the developing notions of evolution, and process from early twentieth - century physics.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between evolution and creation, accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.

Seems all those earlier «infallible» Popes were wrong — as they were on Adam and Eve v. evolution, heliocentricity v. geocentricity, and a host of other issues that required an amendment of official Church doctrine.

But evolution per se doesn't concern itself with life's origin, but on how later forms of life stemmed from earlier forms.

The early stages in the evolution of life, therefore, involve not only physico - chemical mass, energy, atoms and so on, but also specific instructions.

The influence of these older evolutionary cosmologies on Whitehead's thought, moreover, is never carefully examined so much as it is presupposed.1 Against such presuppositions, I shall argue here that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead's metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process - oriented «evolutionary cosmologies.»

I should, however, also remark that the more subtle developments of Whitehead's thought seem to have been the inspiration for one of the most thorough and impressive discussions of the evolution of human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised soon.

This is an excellent opportunity to get involved with a growing brewery from the early stages and work in a collaborative environment to shape the evolution of a beer portfolio with no limits on experimental concepts.

s. create a bilateral joint working committee for permanent trade discussions on agriculture in order to anticipate and eliminate trade irritants through an early warning system in the event of regulatory evolutions and promote regulatory convergence;

The significance of such an early example of the upright posture is that Bunostegos dates very far back on the evolutionary tree, pushing back the clock on when this posture shows up in evolution.

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Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Combining the tools of psychology, evolutionary biology and archaeology, scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution.

«If oxygen levels were 3 % and they rose past that 10 % threshold, that would have had a huge influence on early animal evolution,» he says.

For the Past 130 years, paleontologists divided dinosaurs into two groups, based on a handful of anatomical features — a split they believe occurred early in the animals» evolution more than 230 million years ago.

Instead, small groups of African H. sapiens continually traveled into Arabia and beyond starting nearly 100,000 years ago or earlier, suggests Martinόn - Torres, who directs the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

The article published on the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution provides the framework for posing new hypotheses on the phylogenetic relations among poriferans, determining gene function in sponges and the early evolution of molecular complexity in mEvolution provides the framework for posing new hypotheses on the phylogenetic relations among poriferans, determining gene function in sponges and the early evolution of molecular complexity in mevolution of molecular complexity in metazoans.

The reality of the moon's influence on life is even more intriguing: It may have been playing a guiding role since evolution's earliest days.

A speculative form of dark matter could have a surprising effect on the universe's early evolution — making gravitational waves from the big bang easier to see

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

In their extreme focus on early human evolution in Africa, scientists may have missed major clues about our ancestry still buried in other parts of the world.

Astronomers have shed further light on the evolution of the early Universewith the discovery of a «team» of super bright galaxies.

Building from a bachelors degree in zoology (Oxford), a Masters» degree in computer science (University of York), and a Ph.D. in genetics (Cambridge University), his personal research focuses upon the earliest evolution of life on our planet.

Because so little is known about Gondwanan mammals, Krause is wary of dismissing Rich's interpretation «just because we don't expect, based on current knowledge of early mammalian evolution on Gondwana, to see a placental mammal in the Early Cretaceous of Australia.&rearly mammalian evolution on Gondwana, to see a placental mammal in the Early Cretaceous of Australia.&rEarly Cretaceous of Australia.»

The organic reactions that may have established the starting conditions for life on the early Earth are long gone, erased by our planet's high - speed chemical and geologic evolution.

These very dim objects may be more representative of the early universe, and offer new insight on the formation and evolution of the first galaxies.

In Kansas, supporters of evolution were already assured a majority on the 10 - member state board after a primary election earlier this year.

«It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever, and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses,» said George Poinar, Jr., an internationally recognized expert on the life forms found in amber and a faculty member in the OSU College of Science.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

«This discovery challenges the established narrative of early human evolution head - on and is likely to generate a lot of debate.

Mitochondria are believed to be descended from bacteria which joined with cells early on in the evolution of life.

says Dr. Christopher Beard, whose earlier work on Eosimias and other fossil primates from China and Myanmar has placed Asia at the centre of early primate evolution.

Mimi's outsize complement of genes — so large that the virus is tantalizingly close to being an independent organism — suggest to many scientists that Mimivirus underwent reductive evolution early on and shed some of its genome, including the genes necessary to replicate on its own.

Their study, published in this week's early online edition of the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, might surprise bear ecologists and conservationists who had long assumed that black bears in the Sierra Nevada rely on lots of protein from ants and other insects because their remains are frequently found in bear feces.

Likewise, another popular origins trope, «Man the Hunter,» depicts evolution as driven by an early dietary shift and a dependence on males for precious meat, implying that women mated only with males who were successful hunters.

While researchers estimate accretion during late bombardment contributed less than one percent of Earth's present - day mass, giant asteroid impacts still had a profound effect on the geological evolution of early Earth.

This finding ends a 35 - year - old debate on the possible presence of curium in the early solar system, and plays a crucial role in reassessing models of stellar evolution and synthesis of elements in stars.