Sentences with phrase «say evolutionary pressures»

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When we're staring death in the face, Nelson says, there's strong evolutionary pressure to remember every detail.

That means that, compared with dogs, cats haven't faced as much evolutionary pressure to appeal to humans, the researchers say.

Healthy people might take the pill, says Heiden, because by reducing food intake they could mimic evolutionary pressures that slow aging.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

«The over-prescribing of anti-malarials puts evolutionary pressure on the malaria parasite that risks hastening its resistance to artemisinin - based combination therapy — the frontline drugs used to treat malaria in Africa,» Stoler said.

«It's a very compelling case for the importance of evolutionary pressures in controlling the magnitude of the immune response,» says Kevin Tracey, an immunologist and head of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

«We assume that the competition between plants and herbivorous insects presented an evolutionary pressure for spiders to develop better adhesives,» says Wolff.

But primate researchers say the animals don «t have much spare time in the wild for mating, let alone for playing with themselves, and it's in the wild that the evolutionary pressures Hrdy talks about are exerted.

«Our hypothesis was that if total length and travel distance were important evolutionary criteria for plants, there would be evolutionary pressure to minimize the criteria together, and that's actually what we found,» says Ullas Pedmale, who was a postdoctoral researcher on the project and is now an assistant professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

«By following these nutritional guidelines, we put our diet more in line with the evolutionary pressures that shaped our current genetics, which in turn positively influences health and well being,» says Loren Cordain, PhD, professor of health and exercise science at Colorado State University and author of The Paleo Diet.

«If you were to try to feed shrubs to a lion or meat to a cow, both would suffer nutritional deficiencies, illness and disease because of evolutionary discordance between their genome and the newly introduced environmental selective pressures,» says Cordain.

«By following these nutritional guidelines we put our diet more in line with the evolutionary pressures that shaped our current genome, which in turn positively influences health and well being,» he says.