Sentences with phrase «suggests human adaptations»
The newly sequenced genome of the plague - causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests human adaptations are what have kept this disease in check
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The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.
This more dynamic view of conservation, which allows for species» adaptation to human - altered habitats and changing climates, may be a way to maintain a portion of endangered genetic ancestry, the scientists suggest.
Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»
Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.
Then he suggested that many of the unique characteristics of humans and their ancestors, marking them out as different from the other apes, could be explained as adaptations to spending time in water.
The «primitive» nature of the human hand suggests that any changes that led to a widespread flowering of stone tool culture was likely neurological rather than structural — in other words, the adaptation occurred in our brains, not in our hands, he says.
In the case of Influenza A, the loss of RNA exosome activity severely compromises viral infectivity, but also manifests in human neurodegeneration suggesting that viruses target essential proteins implicated in rare disease in order to ensure continual adaptation.
«It suggests that human adaptation, like most common human diseases, has a complex genetic architecture.»
«Our findings suggest that recent human adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of single changes of large effect, but through shifts of frequency in many places of the genome,» said Molly Przeworski, PhD, professor of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the phuman adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of single changes of large effect, but through shifts of frequency in many places of the genome,» said Molly Przeworski, PhD, professor of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the pHuman Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the paper.
While Haynes's statement suggests the two films may share a kinship of some sort beyond structural similarities, their treatment of human behavior couldn't be any more at odds, as David Lean's adaptation of Noël Coward's play Still Life seeks to penetrate the inner psychological life of Laura (Celia Johnson), a married British woman and mother, while Haynes keeps his characters at arm's length, emphasizing surfaces and crucial overlaps between appearances of objects and humans.
Or you can read: «Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation -LSB-...] The results of the analysis suggest that agriculture and human well - being will be negatively affected by climate change»
The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.
The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.
Developed countries have agreed to bear the adaptation costs of developing countries to human induced climate change and that these funds should represent «new and additional resources» a and the Cancun Agreement and subsequent discussions suggests that for adaptation these funds could amount to tens of billions USD per year.
The document suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action, including agreements to be negotiated at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Our analysis suggests that in the absence of adaptation, the human influence on climate would have been the main contributor to increases in heat - related mortality and decreases in cold - related mortality.
Findings of both animal and human studies suggest that adaptation to novelty, altered attention, and increased emotionality