Sentences with phrase «species adapt to changing environments»

«This study is about understanding how evolution works, which tells you how species adapt to changing environments over many generations,» says Pedro Beltrao, a research group leader at EMBL - EBI.

Not exact matches

Mutation does occur randomly but species adapt to outside pressures such as changes in their environment.

We can study it and learn how it allows a species to modify themselves to adapt to thier environment, we can even manipulate it and see the resulting change.

Natural selection is a far better explanation for adaptations than purposive forces, especially considering that the better adapted a species is to its environment, the more certain becomes its extinction should the environment change (or in other words, natural selection is blind to the future).

Nurturing their exploration is crucial for the human species to innovate, evolve, and adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

«The potential for the organisms to evolve in response to a rapidly changing environment is often downplayed, even though very few studies have examined the extent to which species might adapt,» said Michael Logan, who recently received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Science Foundation.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

Ocean species seeking cooler waters to survive may have to adapt to their new environments by changing their diets

But especially in such a rare coral species, a tiny boost of a few new individuals could make a big difference in their genetic diversity, allowing their populations to adapt and become more resilient to the changing environment in the oceans.»

As two species spend time apart adapting to separate environments, many changes accumulate in the species» DNA.

The aim of their investigation was to explore how cranial size changed as our species adapted to an increasingly complex social environment between 1.9 million and 10,000 years ago.

«Species with smaller geographical ranges are naturally more sensitive to environmental change, and if the same community of species is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and CSpecies with smaller geographical ranges are naturally more sensitive to environmental change, and if the same community of species is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Cspecies is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate.

Mingzhen Lu, first Princeton author and a graduate student in Hedin's research group, said that if root traits do in fact determine a plant's ability to withstand a particular environment, these findings could be valuable in conserving endangered species or projecting how plants might adapt to climate change.

Recombination is largely responsible for generating human diversity, the novel configurations of the genome that enable the species to adapt and evolve in an ever - changing environment.

They focused their search on expression levels of two sets of genes, those that remained largely unchanged across all four species, suggesting that there was little room — or need — for improvement, and those that changed most dramatically, usually in the human lineage — an indication of powerful incentives to adapt to a changing environment.

In evolutionary biology it has long been questioned whether the changes that take place in the genome when various species adapt to new environments are primarily due to mutations within protein - forming sequences or whether so - called regulatory mutations play a greater role.

Prof. Teeling's integrative research in the fields of zoology, phylogenetics and genomics uncovers the genetic signatures of survival that enables species to adapt to an ever - changing environment.

I'm interested in how species adapt to their environment and how this affects inter-species interactions and evolutionary diversification, particularly in the context of anthropogenic environmental changes.

The degree of social behavior and the ability of an individual to adapt to a changing social environment varies with species (certainly cats are less social than dogs),... [Read More]

Rapid environmental change tends to cause mass - extinction events because the environment alters faster than the abilities of many species to adapt.

Species that evolved in a closed island environment may not be able to adapt when their habitat changes.

Trees «shield vulnerable species from climate change» 1 November 2013Last updated at 23:05 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News Allowing forest canopies to grow over could help some flora species cope with rising temperatures Forests with dense canopies create a microclimate that protects a variety of cold - adapted plant species from warming air temperatures, a study has shown.

Also, the rate at which climate changes is also important — species can adapt to gradual changes to their environment, they struggle with rapid changes.

Nature Critique # 3 The third critique pointed out that because no one yet understands the role genetics plays when species attempt to adapt to changing environments, certain assumptions in the Thomas paper «may not be justified» and certain of its methods may «yield poor results» and «may be inaccurate.»

Plant and animal species are adapting to changing environments by migrating to new areas.