Sentences with phrase «similar in species»

The external signs of pain that human beings show are very similar in species most closely related to us — mammals and birds.

«There has been a lot of recent research showing that these behaviors — like aggression or reproduction or parental care — are sort of ubiquitously distributed across vertebrates, and the mechanisms that promote and maintain those behaviors are similar in all species,» DeAngelis said.

Not exact matches

In a similar vein, quality sheets are typically considered to have a high thread count (which, when too high, can actually block air flow) and tout buzzwords like «Egyptian cotton,» which can confusingly refer to any kind of cotton species that happens to hail from Egypt, Chapin says.

Humans are a separate species, so we have similar desires and problems no matter where we live or what time period we live in.

@Chuckles I was not being hostile, but am just trying to point out that you are basically willing to conflate any similar cognitive errors such as we have as humans as being significant in any way in religious terms, should it happen that we encounter some alien species that also has idiots who think imaginary stuff is real.

@Chuckles There are bound to be many semi-intelligent species of life in the universe similar to us in that their organic brains are also subject to a host of perceptual biases left over from previous steps in their evolutionary progression to that state, just like we have as humans.

This solution implies «convergent evolution», the independent evolution of similar features in different species, considered in an earlier edition of this column.4 Here, evolution is driven by the underlying physics and mathematics.

A similar impulse of group formation seems to have become operative along each zoological branch, but at very different ages of the earth; so far as we are able to judge, the phenomenon has occurred in each case at a predetermined age of the species under review.

Many species that are very successful in their habitat, such as sharks, crocodiles, and coelacanths are similar in form to their ancestors because they still out compete or out reproduce their rivals.

Or they must believe that human re-production can be achieve in similar manner as in a few lower animal and plant species.

Researchers have discovered that hydra (coral - like polyps that emerged hundreds of millions of years ago) form tumours similar to those found in humans.2 Thomas Bosch, at Kiel University, and Domazet - Lošo, from the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb unexpectedly discovered tumour - bearing polyps in two species of hydra.

One study suggests arthropod diversity alone — wasps, beetles, spiders, ants — found on a single tree species in shade - grown coffee plantations approximates that found under similar conditions in undisturbed tropical forest.

Similar peppers of this species are called «habanero» and «Scotch bonnet» in other parts of the Caribbean.

The weed species and biomass were similar in the two systems; however, with timely removal they did not form large populations or affect the growth of the strawberries.

They say that other species in which males show a similar testosterone decline are generally those in which there is innate paternal care for offspring, compared to species where there is no paternal care after mating.

Want to learn more about how to attract birds to your yard, or why they are behaving in a certain way, or just how to identify species that look similar?

I am unsure why you disagree with using data / results from studying other animals that are known to be similar to humans — I see studies all the time that correlate results in other species (eg, to demonstrate the carcinogenic properties of something, they give it to rats and watch for tumors).

«So my lab is currently looking at those other species of borrelia to see if they're found in this area and how common they are and, similar to this study, to see if ticks are co-infected with those at unexpected rates.»

After all, similar exhibitions are recorded in monkeys, rabbits, elephants, crayfish and other species.

«Not only is this worm closely related to many other parasites of livestock it is also similar to some species of worms in humans.»

Parallel evolution occurs when two independent species evolve together at the same time in the same ecospace and acquire similar characteristics (extinct browsing - horses and extinct paleotheres).

We found one bacterium species similar to one previously identified from a hot spring in New Mexico.

Poison frog species and ants in Madagascar and the Americas have evolved similar methods of chemical defense

And unlike large land mammals in the region, whose dispersal northward was blocked by two broad rivers, these semiaquatic otters and their kin were able to spread unhindered; fossils of a similar species from approximately the same era have been unearthed at another site about 1400 kilometers to the northeast.

The scans revealed bone injuries similar to those suffered by people in such falls, adding weight to the theory that her species nested in trees for protection (Nature, doi.org/bp4d).

In 1992, he showed that even ticks from widely separated areas like Georgia and Massachusetts were genetically too similar to be different species.

Now we have many examples, and some broader trends emerge — such as the repetition of evolution in exquisite detail, in different species, at different times, in the origin of similar traits.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

Fossils of the other new species, found in rocks of a similar age a few dozen kilometers away, suggest that creature — dubbed Vilevolodon, roughly from the Latin for «toothed glider» — was about as large as a midsized mouse.

Although my research in Kramer's lab focused on crop species, it applied similar techniques to those I had acquired as a grad student and addressed similar questions.

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«They were confused with species that were physically very similar in scale numbers, shapes, color patterns and body size,» he said.

They isolated the importance of temperature by studying only female beak length and comparing species with similar diets living in different climates.

«I know a lot of people have thought about doing this before but no has ever been able to successfully demonstrate this in a clinical setting with a species genetically very similar to us.»

Retroviruses that are similar, but not identical, to HIV have been found in many species of monkey.

A parasitic wasp identified from Uroleucon aphids in South Dakota cup plants, for instance, had characteristics similar to specimens of a known species, A. tissoti, found in British Columbia and Florida.

The group now plan to investigate whether similar phenomena occur in other species of stingless and stinging bees.

There are nine recognized species of sifakas in Madagascar, and all have similar social structure with only two reproducing adults and between two and four members.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

«The frog was originally confused with the Siberut Island Frog, which is a species that occurs on Siberut Island off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, due to their similar appearance in color - pattern,» Chan said.

By systematically observing the spontaneous interactions between zoo visitors and chimpanzees at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden, researchers found that both species imitated to a similar extent.

But he points out that we deal with similar issues already, such as invasive species running riot in countries where they have no natural predators.

«Farmed seafood and livestock stack up differently using alternate feed efficiency measure: Study finds retention of protein and calories in feed similar for major aquaculture and livestock species.»

A few studies have shown similar impacts on freshwater species in the lab.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

A new antibiotic discovery technique The most historically popular method for natural product discovery, called bioassay - guided isolation, often rediscovers the same highly abundant (or highly active) compounds over and over again, similar to fishing in a lake and always catching the most plentiful species while sparse species never take the bait.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

Result for the patients infected with E. coli showed similar patterns of succession; but in addition to being dominated by E. coli at the infection stage, late - stage species began appearing as early as day 7 in some patients.

The four species also pursue widely distributed prey in similar patchy and challenging habitats, and they need flexible hunting strategies.

Hosoya's group is currently investigating whether other cortical layers also contain microcolumns, as well as whether this architecture is separate from or subsumes known visual cortical columns in other species — given that microcolumns show similar response properties.