Sentences with phrase «species evolve over time»

«The bottom line is that we should expect to see changes in the impacts of invasive species as invaders and native species evolve over time,» Morin said.

Not exact matches

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

Consider for a moment that only 1 % of species exist from the last mass extinction barrier and then try to see the logical paradox that species evolve over a long period of time.

From the time the species Homo sapiens consolidated itself to become the only survivor of the various hominoid species that had evolved as a result of divergence, humankind slowly spread over the earth, moving into previously uninhabited areas.

If we define evolution as simply a change in species over time, any student of biology must agree that species do in fact evolve.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

In some species, enhanced male - female genital fit has evolved over time in ways that make mating easier.

They then measured Darwinian natural selection on flowering time and found differences in flowering times that have evolved over the past 50 years as the species moved northwards, following its initial introduction to the east coast of the USA.

A family tree, also known as a phylogenetic tree, uses DNA to show how new species have evolved over time.

Fernald studies Astatotilapia burtoni, one of the hundreds of cichlid fish species inhabiting Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa, because of the unique ways they have evolved over time.

In his paper, Shapira proposes that animals and a set of core bacteria — or in general, a host with its core microbiota — evolve together, adapting as they can to changing conditions and perhaps, over time, becoming new species.

The team focused on two closely related species of fruit flies — Drosophila melanogaster and its sister species, Drosophila mauritiana — because large differences have evolved in their rates of recombination: D. mauritiana does about 1.5 times more crossing over than D. melanogaster.

Over long periods of time, natural selection acts on these variations to evolve or change the species.

New species evolved over millions of years, but those time scales are almost beyond human comprehension.

Elizabeth, not that this is the place to discuss evolution, but there's plenty of evidence which shows that we all evolved over time, from one species to another.

This bonding is important to both humans and dogs, but it has served vastly different ends as both species have evolved and changed over time.

Over time some of these species have evolved into new species, and are present today, while others, like the pygmy mammoth, the Santa Barbara Island song sparrow, and the giant deer mouse, evolved into unique island species before becoming extinct.

Such geochemical feedbacks can easily depend on the present state of things, and not just the present climate, but the locations and abundances of various geochemical reservoirs and frozen bodies of water, evolved species, soils, topography, etc, that has been shaped by climate and other factors over time.

New species evolved over millions of years, but those time scales are almost beyond human comprehension.

He wrote a book concerning one of the most famous flattop plateaus, or tepui's, where the plants and animals on top had become separated from the rest of the world because of eroding land around it, and they evolved by themselves over time into indigenous species existing nowhere else.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).