Sentences with phrase «rates over timescales»

This suggest that important living groups such as birds might result from sustained, rapid evolutionary rates over timescales of hundreds of millions of years, which could not be observed without fossils.

Not exact matches

Now researchers at Boston University and the University of California at San Diego report that the rate of release of neurotransmitters varies in a fractal pattern: it looks similar, regardless of the timescale over which it is observed.

They demonstrated that species showing faster rates of genetic differentiation between populations are more likely to produce greater numbers of species over long evolutionary timescales.

In a paper published in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt.

It has been happening since the last deglaciation, and its rate changes over longer timescales than the ones we focused on here.

The amount you have chosen to invest, in conjunction with your annual growth rate, is not enough to cover the account fees of our Self - select Stocks & Shares ISA over the timescale specified.

This rate of rise can easily be adapted to over the timescales in play much more cost efficiently than could any plan to mitigate the potential future conditions.

In the meantime, friends and supporters of the RATE project have good reason to rejoice with us over these preliminary results, which strongly uphold the 6,000 - year timescale of Scripture.»

Debates over discounting are longstanding in climate analysis, but as my colleague Jerry Taylor wrote last year, economists who study climate change are inclined to choose lower discount rates because of the inter-generational transfers and long timescales associated with climate change.