Sentences with phrase «picture of evolution»

«Epigenetic inheritance adds another dimension to the modern picture of evolution.

A Fierce Green Fire gives the big picture of the evolution of environmentalism, how we got here and where we're going, with a long look at how we have tried to protect the planet... from humanity.

Energy and Civilization synthesizes his canon, offering a broad picture of the evolution of Homo sapiens, the rise of agriculture, and the very recent emergence of a high - energy industrial civilization.

The tracked systems are matched to overpasses of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, and a composite picture of the evolution of various radar and lightning characteristics is built up.

The sampling issues arise from the fact that sea ice is highly dynamic with lots of spatial and seasonal variability so that measurements from individual moorings, submarine sonar tracks, and aircraft flights can only construct an incomplete picture of the evolution of the total Arctic sea ice volume.

Placed together, they form a relatively clear picture of the evolution of life on Earth.

In this paper, we use the Spitzer c2d ice survey, complimented with data sets on ices in cloud cores and high - mass protostars, to determine standard ice abundances and to present a coherent picture of the evolution of ices during low - and high - mass star formation.

Rosetta is revealing its host comet as having a remarkable array of surface features and with many processes contributing to its activity, painting a complex picture of its evolution.

«It gives another picture of our past, a molecular picture of the evolution of our genome» which he says is in some aspects even more conclusive than fossils.

You might call Shin - ya Miyagishima a jack - of - all - trades, because he uses a wide array of methodologies to paint a coherent picture of the evolution of chloroplasts and mitochondria.

But the INSIGHT model considers the changes among dozens of human individuals and close relatives, such as the chimpanzee, which provides a picture of evolution over much shorter time frames.

The Gillis lab's research, paired with the earlier finding that scales in some bony fishes are more related to the musculoskeletal system than to teeth, paints an interesting picture of the evolution of scales.

A joint University of Adelaide - Shanghai Jiao Tong University study has provided the first broad picture of the evolution and possible functions in the plant of pollen allergens.

In a prepared statement Out of Africa theorist Christopher B. Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said «although I have never ruled out the possibility of interbreeding, I have considered this to have been small and insignificant in the bigger picture of our evolution — for example, the results of isolated interbreeding events could easily have been lost in the intervening millennia.

Not exact matches

-LRB-...) The pictures are simply a grouping of individual species that does not prove evolution.

Dawkins» picture of scientific beauty comes from seeing just this arrangement in evolution, in the material development of the universe.

To accept evolution wipes out the whole big picture of why we are here and where we are going.

To accept evolution is asking a Christian to not only remove God from the picture but is asking them to deny the power of God.

Many accounts from the evolution based accounts of this picture did also happen as well but all these things did so at a much more rapid pace than anyone realizes and in some instances even thousands of times faster.

I'm just saying creationism account for much more of the big picture than evolution could ever dream of.

Same for «Fear God or burn in Hell», PullthePlugOnAtheism.org billboards, «Islam Rising... Be Warned», and actually «In God We Trust», «One Nation [Under God]...» Not to mention anti-science messages by Christian groups, such as «In the begining, God created...» (with an X'd out evolution - of - man sequence picture), which is just silly.

«The Christian picture of the world is this, that the world in its details is the product of a long process of evolution but that at the most...

This analogy gets closer to what is meant by natural selection of chance variations, though it still does not do justice to the full picture of Darwinian evolution.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

A.I. Oparin gives us a way to picture the expanses of time required for the eventual evolution of life and man.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

When science has gained a more perfect picture of the spatio - temporal patterns exhibited by the life and adventures of a particle, including perhaps the evolution of the cosmos from a stage in which it did not contain this particle, and into one in which it will no longer contain it, then perhaps speculation as to an inner life of the particle.

Thus when the classical picture of world harmony broke down after being eroded by scientific theories of evolution and entropy, its naively conceived divine counterpart also vanished — quite fortunately we may say in retrospect.

For though Darwin's particular theory of biological evolution was destined to undergo changes and modifications in the hands of successive biologists and zoologists (and with this we are not here concerned), there can be no going back to the simple Biblical picture of origins which was commonly held before Darwin.

This evolution of religion is in the main a disengagement of its own proper ideas from the adventitious notions which have crept into it by reason of the expression of its own ideas in terms of the imaginative picture of the world entertained in previous ages.

In their place an organic (in Whitehead's word, «organismic») picture was found necessary to the newer understanding of evolution itself.

We have criticized the conventional materialistic picture of physical reality, perception, causation and evolution that follows from a thorough - going expulsion of mentality and feeling from the fundamental constituents of nature.

«The Christian picture of the world is this, that the world in its details is the product of a long process of evolution but that at the most profound level it comes from the Logos.

It's also dedicated to people who are interested in the big picture: Parenting and child development from the perspectives of anthropology, evolution, psychology, and neuroscience.

When we take a look at levels and changes in ethnic minority vote choice in a sample weighted to try and correct for these imbalances, the picture is one of evolution, not revolution.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

They found that women were less happy with their bodies and more likely to restrict their eating after seeing pictures of competitive women — described as «playing to win», for example — compared with other women (Evolution and Human Behavior, vol 31, p 365).

Han and Silva also brought human evolution, host genetic diversity, and host immunity into the complex picture of leprosy.

Co-author Eric Rignot, UCI professor of Earth system science, added, «Now that the picture is clear, the role of the ocean in glacier evolution is overwhelming.»

A picture emerges of convergent evolution across a billion - year gap.

The discovery in 1924 of the Taung child astonished and unsettled researchers because it didn't fit their picture of human evolution.

But his proud booty was to reveal its secrets only gradually; small bits of a puzzle that fell into place slowly, forming a larger, overall picture, and gave shape gradually to his theory of the evolution of species.

Evidence for this hierarchical model of galaxy evolution has been mounting, but these latest ALMA data show a strikingly clear picture of the all - important first steps along this process when the Universe was only 8 percent of its current age.

«In contrast, the picture of early bird evolution in the Southern Hemisphere is mostly incomplete,» Martin says, «but with these tracks, it just got a little better.»

Digging into corn's genetic past The new picture that has emerged of the plant also helps researchers better understand its evolution and history.

Powered by advances in sequencing technology, the field of ancient DNA has succeeded beyond all expectations, helping researchers to retrieve the entire genomes of Neandertals and other kinds of ancient humans and transforming the picture of human evolution.

Then researchers could use the detailed seismic picture of the moon's interior to understand better the evolution of a planetary body assembled from the vaporous debris of a giant impact on the still - forming Earth.

Simultaneously, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has released a report titled Evolution Lost, which integrates the Red List with other data to paint a broader picture of the state of the vertebrates: everything from eels to elephants.

This picture of cosmic evolution, known as the cold dark matter (CDM) model, fits remarkably well with most observations.

Having «done» the Universe, the author then gives us a quick tour of the Solar System (with pictures), discusses the origins and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life elsewhere, and rounds things off with extracts from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Hawking, and comparable cosmological thinkers.