Sentences with phrase «rates of evolution»

Second, we investigated rates of evolution in a deeper phylogenetic scale by comparing divergence at nonsynonymous and synonymous sites (dN / dS) between rabbits and mice.

«However, because of the notorious imperfection of the ancient fossil record, no - one has been able to accurately measure rates of evolution during this critical interval, often called evolution's Big Bang.

«These seemingly impossibly fast rates of evolution implied by this Cambrian explosion have long been exploited by opponents of evolution.

«Darwin's dilemma resolved: Evolution's «big bang» explained by five times faster rates of evolution.»

Tremblaya and its counterparts have shed many of the genes involved in DNA repair, further accelerating their rates of evolution.

The team found that species with unusually fast rates of evolution in body size are preferentially targeted by fishing.

The team are now investigating rates of evolution in these mammals, as well as looking at body size more specifically.

«But it's the sustained high rates of evolution in the feathered maniraptoran dinosaur lineage that led to birds — the second great evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs.»

Sequencing of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA allowed comparison between the relative rates of evolution, which suggested that the coalescence, or origin, of the human Y chromosome and mitochondria both occurred approximately 120 thousand years ago.

students who were taught evolution or neither evolution nor creationism in high school had significantly higher acceptance rates of evolution than those taught both evolution and creationism or just creationism;

What they don't appreciate is that this rate of evolution is all that is required to produce the diversity of all living things from a common ancestor.

Yet, how did these «kinds» produce observable biodiversity in only ~ 4000 yrs, well, they won't state it as such, but creationists require «hyper - evolution,» that is a rate of evolution far faster than evolutionists themselves believe is possible.

Majority of species appeared in a very short geological time — The Cambrian explosion occurred 530 billion yrs ago, and the rate of evolution accelerated over 70 - 80 billion years (now I hope we understand that figure)!

This date is 20 million years younger than suggestions from previous studies which used molecular data from living mammals and assumed a near - constant rate of evolution.

From measuring the number of character changes over time for each branch, they found the average rate of evolution for early placental mammals both before and after the dinosaur extinction event.

We are now losing species at [a hundred] to a [thousand] times faster then we should be based on the normal geologic rate of evolution in the loss of species; [a] thousand times faster.

They compared the average rate of evolution over the geological stages before the extinction and the geological stages after to see what impact it had.

So the rate of evolution has actually increased, like the expansion of the universe.

Like Wray, the scientists estimated the genes» rate of evolution by comparing their DNA sequences in two different species, a technique calibrated to the date when the two species are known to have diverged.

«Insertion of some transposable elements can affect the expression and function of protein - coding genes, so the cessation of mobile DNA activity may have slowed the rate of evolution of both genome structure and gene function.»

When the team compared the traits between generations within each of the more than 900 family trees, they could estimate the traits» rate of evolution and forecast 10 generations into the future.

Wang invented a novel statistical method that was able to take advantage of new kinds of data from the fossil record, which reached the conclusion that early birds had a high rate of evolution.

In contrast, rapid environmental change may slow the overall rate of evolution driven by direct interactions within large networks, making each species more vulnerable to extinction.

One obvious explanation for a faster rate of evolution is the anole lizards» faster rate of reproduction.

Janet Sinsheimer from the biostatistics department used phylogenetic methods to determine the rate of evolution of HIV.

If the researchers incorrectly estimated a 200,000 - year - old salamander species to be 2 million years old, then their result was off by a factor of 10, making the salamander's rate of evolution 20,000 times slower than climate change instead of 200,000 times slower.

They found that 11 of the 18 male genes evolved much faster than the average rate of evolution of the non-sexual genes.

Wu thinks that the rapid rate of evolution of male genes is indicative of the sexual behavior of the species.

When he compared the genes in humans and gorillas, which are more distantly related, he noticed that the rate of evolution of maleness genes was still accelerated — but at a much slower rate in gorillas.

In March, researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico used computer simulations to calculate the rate of evolution of supermassive black holes if their growth is fed by cold and dense accretion streams.

Swami Vivekananda emphasised the role of yoga as a means to accelerate the rate of evolution of an individual soul.

We can't keep pace with the humans» rapidly expanding rate of evolution.

In reality, the bureaucrats can never keep up with the rate of evolution of knowledge and markets and their failure is a foregone conclusion.

The relationships between trophic level and rate of evolution isn't very simple at all.

The two professions — technology and law — are fundamentally opposite in their rate of evolution.

Not exact matches

«I will be looking closely at the evolution of inflation before making a determination about further adjustments to the federal funds rate,» she said.

The evolution of mobile is speeding up at an overwhelmingly rate, and we know that «no app at all is better than a bad app».

The impact of mortgage interest rates can be further assessed by Figure 3, which measures the evolution of the mortgage to cash cost ratio of purchasing a residential property in terms of labour time.

However, a large literature concludes that the equilibrium real short - term rate is very unlikely to be constant, with its value affected by many factors, including the pace of technological change, fiscal policy and the evolution of financial conditions.3

A fuller discussion of Australia's experience with capital account liberalisation can be found in Debelle G and M Plumb (2006), «The Evolution of Exchange Rate Policy and Capital Controls in Australia», available at < http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/asep.2006.5.2.7 >, Asian Economic Papers, 5 (2), pp 7 — 29.

I believe in the early evolution of crowdfunding, cannibalization of investment from this group through private placement or offering memorandum will be disguised as crowdfunding to demonstrate the success and adoption rate of crowdfunding.

The evolution of the trade surplus will tell us something about how successful China has been in bringing down the savings rate.

KeyBanc reiterated its Overweight rating and $ 21 price target on Box Inc (NYSE: BOX) as the company's user conference and analyst day showed faster evolution of the core product and widening competitive advantage.

Moreover, the deployment of long - term evolution, or LTE, networks is running at a better rate this year as operators are expected to deploy the service to cover more customers.

Debelle G and M Plumb (2006), «The Evolution of Exchange Rate Policy and Capital Controls in Australia», Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, 5 (2), pp 7 — 29.

99 % of everything that ever lived is extinct so evolution clearly has a high failure rate.

In fact evolution is a mathematical theorem, it HAS to happen (given the hypotheses are satisfied: self replication, transmission of characteristics, random variation, differential reproduction rates)

There is an on going computer simulation of biological evolution called «Avida» at Michigan State University that shows how complexity can arise from simplicity at an exponential rate.

The important claim of «evolution,» however, is not that limited changes occur in populations due to differences in survival rates.

There is nothing in the Theory of Evolution that says that a species must evolve at a certain rate.