Sentences with phrase «species over millions of years»

They determined how long these control points have existed, when they were acquired and how quickly they have changed across species over millions of years.

Not exact matches

We'd accomplished a lot over the years, protecting more than 200 million acres of biodiversity hot spots and building the strongest species - focused science enterprise in the world.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Rick, we have fossils from different human species over the periods of millions of years and they gradually become more and more like what we're like today.

However a lesser animal species over a few millions of years can thru a process of random genetic mutations and natural selection evolve into man.

From Indian University Web site: «When exceptionally complete fossil sites are studied, usually a mix of patterns are seen: some species still seem to appear suddenly (within a few hundred thousand years), while others clearly appear gradually (over many millions of years).

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

Because the soupy mass became so many different species over millions and millions of years.

In 1859 Darwin tells us that species transformed one from another by evolutionary descent over millions of years.

There are literally millions of fossils that have been recovered, of thousands of different species and they are all located where they would be in the fossil record if life evolved slowly over billions of years.

Endangered Species Chocolate has donated over $ 1.3 million of product sales in the past three years to wildlife advocate organizations around the world, such as The African Wildlife Foundation.

That study underestimated the rate of current species loss, and overstated the natural rate over the past 10 to 20 million years.

Astonishingly diverse, by virtue of numbers, species and impact, they were major players for over 270 million years.

The two species share a common primate ancestor, but over millions of years, their characteristics have morphed into easily distinguishable features.

Although different species came and went, the same ecological roles were filled over the 1.5 million year span of the Dinosaur Park Formation.

A little further in the rock record, a few brachiopod species recover, Wignall says, and then mollusks take over en masse, before the devastation of the Permian extinction, 8 million years later.

Background Over millions and millions of years, all of the different species have come to look and act the way they do through a process called evolution by natural selection.

We have Australopithecus species, such as Lucy, and some fossil members of that lineage go back over 4 million years.

Therefore, they provide a window into studying past viral infections that happened over millions of years in different species.

Reports went viral over the weekend that Herbert Lutz at the Museum of Natural History in Mainz, Germany, had discovered a previously unknown European species of ape that had human - like teeth millions of years before African species did.

This work, which highlights how the two species have diverged over millions of years, shows unexpected zones of stability and change.

The finding supports an existing idea that the three master limb - replacers last shared a common ancestor about 420 million years ago, and it suggests that the evolutionary process of growing limbs is saved over time, not developed independently in separate species, the researchers report today in PLOS ONE.

By looking for areas with distinctively rapid mutation, his team hoped to pinpoint a human genetic signature — stretches of DNA where change has been selected for over the 6 million or 7 million years since the two species shared a common ancestor.

This idea helps explain how we started out as a small, apelike, herbivorous species 6 million years ago in tropical Africa, and after a history of origin and extinction of species, what's left today is us: a single species all over the planet with an astonishing array of abilities to adjust.

By studying the fossilized teeth of rodents from over a span of 22 million years, Jan van Dam of Utrecht University and his colleagues found that rodent species rise and fall in cycles that closely match variations in Earth's orbit.

In the same vein, the article describes how a chance «mistake» — an apparently meaningless mutation that took place over 700 million years ago — became the molecular driver for complex morphological developments in a number of vertebrates (including the human species).

Due to the fact that the species only lived for a limited period of time just over 500 million years ago, it is possible to use the fossilto date various rocks, which explains why Agnostus pisiformis is a celebrity within science.

Working from an extensive Eurasian fossil record going back some 2.6 million years, Adrian Lister of University College London and Andrei V. Sher of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow studied changes in the skulls and teeth of three successive mammoth species (the last of which was the woolly variety) over time.

To the research team's great surprise, the predictions of the model held up, not just for modern humans, but for over 17 ape and hominin species spread out across millions of years of higher primate evolution and diversification.

My research focuses on using our knowledge of the evolutionary relationships between species to help understand evolutionary patterns over really long periods of time, up to tens of millions of years.

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

I know, I know... You'll get heated debate about both of these topics... meat eating vs veganism, and raw foodism... however, it's historical FACT that our current species (and historical ancestors back over a million years ago) in almost every culture around the world, ate at least some % of plant - animal food combination and raw food / cooked food combination (even if it was at different times of the day, or even different times of the year).

This bundle contains 9 ready - to - use Ant Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Ants who have been able to survive on earth for more than 100 million years and with over 20,000 different species of ants, they can be found anywhere in the world.

Ants have been able to survive on earth for more than 100 million years and with over 20,000 different species of ants, they can be found anywhere in the world.

While this may be unexpected to some, the primary difference between the bird species is simply a result of evolution, as they have different chromosome sequences that have adapted over millions of years.

Pet Poison Helpline has managed over one million cases since its inception over 12 years ago, and provides treatment advice for poisoning cases of all species, including dogs, cats, birds, small mammals, large animals, and exotic species.

Greg Hunt: If a quarter of that on early indications is directed towards threatened species protection and eradication of threats such as the feral cats, that's $ 125 million over the next four years.

The ancient sandstone cliffs of Golden Gate National Park, made up of desert sand from 200 million years ago, lie set in amongst over 50 species of grasses.

With a dramatic and desolate beauty borne of volcanic eruptions spewing over 4 - 5 million years ago, these islands harbor some of the most unique species in the world.

It features work made over the course of his career, including Tropisme (2015), a work in which plant species that existed during the Cretaceous period were flash - frozen and sealed in a glass vitrine, preserving 65 million years of plant life for a future that might not support it.

Hollow is a miniature forest of all the world's forests, including over 10,000 unique tree species spanning millions of years telling the history of the planet through the immensity of tree specimens in microcosm.

However, it's natural for living organisms to trash the planet as they divide and consume — just look at all of the organisms that went extinct over 2 million years ago when selfish photosynthetic bacteria began spewing oxygen into the atmosphere and eradicating countless species of anaerobic bacteria.

«The concentration of species in this area is likely to have held up over long periods — think tens of millions of years,» said Stuart Pimm, a specialist in tropical ecology at Duke University.

Sharks are one of the oldest species on the planet, having honed their sleek, aquatic - killer image only over millions of years of evolution — and as if that alone wasn't enough to strike a bit of fear in us would - be oceangoers, it turns out sharks getting even more specialized.

During the last few years over a million new species were discovered and that's only part of what remains.

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

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

Most living coral species have survived over a million years of climate change and have endured the extreme El Nino frequencies of the past 3000 years including the Little Ice Age.

That footage is some of the most compelling action in Sharkwater, Stewart's 2006 acclaimed documentary, which explains how the ocean's apex predator has driven the evolution of marine species for over 400 million years and plays a pivotal role in climate stabilization (by feeding on species that eat plankton, which transform carbon dioxide into oxygen).

However, the Big Five occurred over periods of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so Barnosky and colleagues also attempted to determine how long it might take us to reach mass extinction levels (75 % of species extinct).