Sentences with phrase «over millions of years of»

These responses have been engraved in our genes over millions of years of evolution, and they are, indeed, the most effective choices for insects or reptiles.

The great white shark has remained unchanged over millions of years of evolution.

Over the millions of years of climate changes, the earth is still here and will always be until God decides otherwise... so what's all the fuss about??

One of the parameters is high stand or low stand conditions based on sea level transgression / regression curves which is related to long term climate, but I am not aware of any oil companies that use anything remotely resembling what I understand to be a climate model with forcings, and certainly not one driven by something like CO2, solar or anyhting else, simply because you can not know the necessary parameters over the millions of years of geological time that you are interested in modelling.

Sharks are one of the oldest species on the planet, having honed their sleek, aquatic - killer image only over millions of years of evolution — and as if that alone wasn't enough to strike a bit of fear in us would - be oceangoers, it turns out sharks getting even more specialized.

If, in fact, the climate HAS changed over the millions of years of Earth's history (it has), and if, in fact, we are not always able to explain why it has changed (we aren't), then I see no reason to accept the assumption that CO2 has to be the principal driving force.

Formulating an evolutionary nutritional program depends on knowing the range and balance of whole raw foods an animal evolved to eat over millions of years of its genetic adaptation.

Previously, researchers had suggested that over millions of years of evolution, hardened structures such as external scales gradually migrated into the mouth and changed shape to become teeth.

The question is — and it's a question at this point — can we learn from these novel biophotonic mechanisms that have evolved over millions of years of natural selection new approaches to making tunable and switchable photonic materials to more efficiently encode, transmit, and decode information via light?»

The soft structure makes the most of someone's existing musculoskeletal structure, says Jeff Koller at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, «and that's been designed over millions of years of evolution».

Since then, scientists have created a detailed and incremental record that shows how hominin stone technologically advanced over millions of years of innovation.

If anything, over millions of years of human evolution, «smart» intuitive heuristics that guide our decision making have helped us get to where we are today.

New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.

In A Baby Wants to be Carried author Evelin Kirkilionis explains in detail why babies expect to be carried and respond so well to it — they have been designed for it over millions of years of human evolution.

Breast milk has been perfected over millions of years of evolution.

This is the body's natural response to stress, developed over millions of years of human evolution.

Not exact matches

April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

Games have consequently ballooned in scope over the decades to the point where they typically require $ 100 - million budgets, teams of hundreds and several years to produce.

It's surged a whopping 81 % year - to - date, and investors have added roughly $ 165 million of exposure over the past week.

An additional $ 245 million over five years «for the identification, overseas processing, transportation and resettlement of the additional 10,000 Syrian refugees.»

Revenue for the first half of this year was $ 560.6 million, an increase of 51 percent over the same period last year.

That means employees who are currently exempt from overtime pay who earn less than this threshold will become nonexempt — employers will suddenly be required to pay overtime to over four million more employees within the first year of implementing the new rules.

Co-founder Ryan Smith says the company has hosted over $ 100 million in sales orders since founding in March 2016; he expects to do $ 500 million in sales orders by the end of this year.

Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

In the former year, it agreed to «forgive» a $ 3 million loan to Trump — for money he'd spent developing the riverboat casino — if sometime over the next two years, the stock price exceeded $ 25 for ten of 15 trading days.

In 2000, Quebec produced 41 million kilograms of maple syrup, more than a 30 % increase over the previous year.

Other promises from leader Philippe Couillard have included the creation of 250,000 new jobs in Quebec over a five - year time span, a $ 160 million stimulus plan for small and medium businesses in the province, and a $ 150 million innovation fund.

Doubling of the Treasury Board's budget for open data and open government initiatives, providing an additional $ 11.5 million over five years for these activities.

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

Last year, the world's largest dietary supplement maker, GNC Holdings Inc, agreed to pay $ 2.25 million to avoid federal prosecution over its alleged sale of illegal pills and powders.

Those interest costs were the principal component of its combined net losses of $ 278 million over those three years.

That's when Schaaf and the scrappy Imgur team decided that the years of bootstrapping were over: They accepted a $ 40 million venture capital investment.

Since last year about 1.4 million commercial trucks, over 4 % of the total, have disappeared from America's roads.

While the year isn't over yet, 2016 is shy of last year's figure at less than $ 500 million.

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

Last year, New Belgium Brewing sold over half a million barrels of beer, which makes it all the more remarkable that CEO Kim Jordan doesn't have any employees.

The $ 5.2 - billion deal is comprised of annual payments, starting at just over $ 300 million next year then increasing gradually to more than $ 500 million in the final year.

Valued at just US$ 12 million six years ago, Twitter had a market cap of over US$ 40 billion at one point in December.

The Liberals produced a modest $ 600 - million surplus in 2017 - 18, but it will be quickly replaced by a total of $ 31.9 - billion in deficit spending over the following six years.

With revenue of over $ 9.9 million, this six - year - old company is No. 786.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Mining their massive archive of over 80 million images, the company found images of some of our favorite well - known personalities, to see how they have changed along with Getty over the past 20 years.

We'd accomplished a lot over the years, protecting more than 200 million acres of biodiversity hot spots and building the strongest species - focused science enterprise in the world.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

Betriebsrat head Klaus Volkert was treated especially kindly, getting 2 million euros in bonuses over 10 years, while his Brazilian mistress was subsidized to the tune of 400,000 euros.

The Tories are committing $ 44.9 million over five years to expand the focus of the National Anti-Drug Strategy from illicit street drugs to prescription drug abuse as well.

For both Amanat and Tuzman, the conviction is a striking fall from power: The two defendants have made millions of dollars and led successful entrepreneurial careers that have all but unraveled over the course of the past year.

This year the Super Bowl should attract over 110 million viewers worldwide, and advertisers — many of them studios and networks — are paying an astonishing $ 5 million to run a 30 - second commercial.