Sentences with phrase «shorter than that of humans»

-- Mice and humans both have about 30,000 genes - and share 99 % of them - but the mouse genome is shorter than that of humans (2.5 billion letters compared with 2.9 billion)---- About 1,200 new genes have been discovered in the human because of mouse - human genome comparisons.

Not exact matches

In determining the compensation of our named executive officers other than our Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee receives input from our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Resources with respect to appropriate base salary levels and short - term and long - term incentive awards for such officers.

Sadly, the algebra of politics and economics is governed by this human shortcoming that will steer us to certain extinction in an order that is much shorter than possible.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

In «My Own Life,» a short autobiography composed shortly before he died, he wrote: «I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early.»

The idea of an «absolute antidote» suggests a different concept of the human than is presumed in Hitchens's argument: a being capable of enslavement by his darker side, one whose infinite desire for something beyond himself can be short - circuited into various «false infinities» (Ratzinger), who can redeem himself only by restoring the circuitry of his absolute relationship with his Generator.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

In short, the sacraments have come to depend on human agency — our ability to remember God — rather than on what God out of his grace does.

In short, he is much more likely to see life in proportion than the man who insists that life on this planet sets the final boundary of human experience.

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Recombinant DNA procedures might be better used to attack the global scourge of malaria than to concoct human growth hormones to make the short tall.

The final human opinion may, in short, in some manner now impossible to foresee, revert to the more personal style, just as any path of progress may follow a spiral rather than a straight line.

They rejected wood samples that could be hundreds of years older than their use by humans, for instance, in favor of short - lived pits and seeds.

The look of her legs is also somewhat human, but her leg muscles are packed onto leg bones that are relatively shorter than ours, and with a stronger (hyperhuman!)

In the meantime, for humans more than 1,200 different short, single - stranded RNA molecules have been named, some of them playing an important role in immune response.

Shorter than the width of a human hair, the roots absorbed lichen, bacteria and algae blowing about in the sand.

The advancement, using a new kind of synthetic polymer (a polymer is a large molecule composed of many repeated smaller molecules) has self - healing properties that mimic human skin, which means that e-skin «wounds» can quickly «heal» themselves in remarkably short time — less than a day.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

FOXSI detected a type of light called hard X-rays — whose wavelengths are much shorter than the light humans can see — which is a signature of extremely hot solar material, around 18 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

The generation time of whales is shorter than humans and chimpanzees, yet whales have a slower substitution rate.

Lori Marino, a neuroscientist and cetacean expert at Emory University, kicked things off, her soft features belying her outsize thesis: Pound for pound, dolphins are better endowed with gray matter than most primates, falling just short of humans, and the neocortex of their brain is just as complex as our own.

«We found that a comprehensive exercise and diet program in a group setting can make a difference for prostate cancer patients, and the difference was greater than I expected in a short period of time,» said lead author Brian Focht, a professor of human sciences at Ohio State.

Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.

Nevertheless, he stops short of concluding that it is a «universal» or «hard - wired» feature of language, rather than a strategy that humans have developed over time to make themselves better understood.

Hau adds that while the alpha males show higher levels of stress - related hormones in their feces, this might be due to numerous short spikes of acute stress episodes rather than one long, continuous state of chronic stress such as humans low on the totem pole might face.

Two papers by Langmead and team, Ultrafast and memory - efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome and Fast gapped - read alignment with Bowtie 2, have been cited in more than 12,000 scientific studies since 2009.

New research shows that possessed bigger brains than previously thought, even though their bodies were shorter than those of most adult humans.

«If you're wondering why so many politicians and news sources deny that dangerous human - caused climate change is real, and you want a relatively short and easy - to - read summary of the issue, look no further than The Madhouse Effect»

From nose to tail the hatchling was a bit shorter than the little finger of a human hand, and it weighed just 10 grams.

It also opens up potential avenues in embryology that would have been inconceivable otherwise — for example, using stem cells to accurately study the embryology of whales and other species with much longer (or shorter) gestation rates than humans.

They also have a shorter gestation period than us yet give birth to young of a similar weight to human babies, making them an ideal species for studying development and genetics.

The first study to evaluate the biodiversity of arthropods in U.S. homes finds that humans share their houses with any of more than 500 different kinds of arthropods — at least on a short - term basis.

Lead author Brian Focht, a professor of human sciences, said the benefits of a group approach to exercise and diet were greater than he expected for such a short period of time.

This adaptive process may fail to occur during short - term studies but the human body is more than capable of adjusting to the sulfur load of real foods, given a proper time frame.

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New Leaf also has a change of art style, with the players and the villagers having more human - like proportions, rather than the shorter ones seen in previous games, as well as the trees, flowers, and houses taking on a more realistic appearance.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

: Aside from the cast clout and what might be a perfectly calibrated brute and tender heart role for Schoenaerts (we've more or less seen examples of these traits in Rust and Bone, Disorder and more recently Racer and the Jailbird), having already explored this human - animal paired world with her Sundance Film Fest winning 2014 award - winning short Rabbit, Clermont - Tonnerre's Sundance Labs workshopped project appears to be on solid footing and hopefully it'll capture more than inner demons.

It's difficult to imagine a better Tony Blair than Sheen, who actually manages to give the man a vulnerability and humor that makes him more human, as he matures from uncertain political player to assured, savvy tactician in the matter of one short week.

Amid the clash of courting traditions, Farrell (who is never better than when playing such pathetic, vulnerable humans) and Rachel Weisz's «Short Sighted Woman» emerge as a cry for genuine intimacy.

Kuryakin, prone to psychotic episodes, and Solo, a suave thief too valuable to rot in jail, fall just short of buddy comedy status, but their playful one - upmanship makes this adventure more human and enjoyable than it otherwise would be.

Ostensibly based on the same short story that spawned the original Twilight Zone episode «Steel,» it takes no more than the basic premise (a future where human boxing has been replaced with robots, a down - at - heels former boxer trying to get by with failing equipment) and spins a story of father / son bonding and a real jerk of a would - be dad getting a shot at redemption.

Long story short: The average human attention span is about eight seconds — that's shorter than the attention span of a goldfish!

Because the coat is so short, it sheds less than those of longer haired breeds, making it less likely to cause allergic reactions in its human companions.

Since pets age 5 - 7 times faster than humans, major health changes can occur in a short amount of time.

Because cats have had a much shorter period of coevolution with humans than dogs, they've been subject to less selection for facial expressions that we translate in dogs as «easy to read» and «human - like.»

It is a fact of life that most pets have a much shorter lifespan than do their human guardians.

Since their reproductive system and their reproductive life is shorter than humans, it makes it more imperative to address the cause of the problem.

The life of a new puppy owner is almost as hectic as the life of a new parent; however, fortunately for a new puppy owner, the baby phase is much shorter and much less expensive than having a human child...