Although that approach has been successfully used to decipher
relations between organisms, calibrating it to measure the time elapsed since the divergence of phylogenetic branches is problematic; concerning the early evolution of life, there is no generally accepted approach.
Not exact matches
«The aim of this book is to argue that the mind - body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the
relation between mind brain and behaviour in living
organisms, but that it invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and it history.»
Thus, complexity in types and
relations between acts of minding may have grown exponentially with the evolution of «higher»
organisms as the imaginative element in the construction of reality became more socially diffused; i.e. as the construction of reality became more participatory - negotiary in character.
The critical difference
between the idea of a substance (or machine) and an
organism is that the
organism is constituted by its internal
relations to its environment.
In the
relation of
organism to environment the harmonious
relation may be narrow or wide (Process III) In Adventures of Ideas this is the contrast
between the truth -
relation and the beauty -
relation.
The ecological study of nature involves, instead, the study of the
relations between individual
organisms within their natural environments.
Current research on microbiomes reveals that an
organism's microbiota are co-evolved with the host species, but not to a point of specificity that is problematic
between related
organisms (such as one kind of pigeon in
relation to another).
We have to thank our physical and mental response to danger, commonly known as stress, for keeping us safe and sound through all phases of evolution, including the present one, but chronic stress is more like a nasty side - effect to the unbalanced
relation between the hectic progress of the modern lifestyle and our relatively slower adaptation to it as
organisms.
Trail # 6 Clue: This trail, aptly named after the area of scientific study focusing on
relations between living
organisms and their natural environments, leads visitors to the only named freshwater spring in the Presidio.