Sentences with phrase «survived earlier periods»

By Barry Brown Canadian researchers studying the ArcticÂ's ancient permafrost have discovered 700,000 - year - old ice wedges buried in the soil that have survived earlier periods of global warming, adding complexity to predictions about the impact of contemporary climate change.

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In this way, your small business can survive past the vulnerable early startup period and ultimately go on to develop successfully.
They relate their hypothesis to life - history theory, which talks of balancing the preservation of one's health and the production of offspring that will survive to reproduce themselves, and theorize that «early life stressors may predispose an individual to adaptively suppress fertility when situations are less than optimal, leading to periods of fertility difficulties even following previous births.»
The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.
«Cultural flexibility was key for early humans to survive extreme dry periods in southern Africa: The ability to be flexible through the innovation of technology helped early humans to survive prolonged periods of pronounced aridification.»
Early humans had to endure famines and shortages of food, so their bodies were equipped to survive long periods without eating.
With representative voices for each period, from those who covered it to those who survived it, Belzberg illustrates how the early efforts of linguist - turned - activist Raphael Lemkin resonate through the modern attempts to curtail ethnic violence and establish a global framework for prosecuting its most egregious offenders.
A period piece set in the early twentieth century, The Danish Girl is based on the real life story of Lili Elbe (played by Redmayne), the first trans woman to ever survive sexual reassignment surgery, and her wife Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander).
The No. 4 Corvette survived a short delay in the pits early on and, thanks to some hard work, safe driving and the new wave by rules which allow cars to make up laps under a yellow caution period, Olly found himself back at the front of the manufacturer - led GTLM class and within the top ten overall.
Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.
Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall.
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