Sentences with phrase «together as a species»

By increasing empathy, he says, oxytocin «makes us bind together as a species.

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Our survival and prosperity as a species depends on our social skills and ability to work together.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

If we as a species unite together and let love, tolerance of each others beliefs, and goodwill rule our hearts and minds our collective Light will outshine the dark.

Quit putting us in wars over religion... we have enough problems on this planet to deal with as a species... real problems that will take all of us, working TOGETHER, to solve.

In order to maintain the forever changing sense of connectedness, we must continually participate in the infinite contextual meanings of our lives that unite us as a species to the evolutionary process of fitting together.

The universe is governed by an amazing system of scientific laws, and humanity is driven by our animal instincts together with our higher mental and social functional areas that have allowed us to survive as a species.

It would make far more sense to put two and two together and understand that evolving an early starting age for procreating would help continue our species, esspecially when facing lifespans as short at 30 years.

Evolution may have organized the universe, but our life is nothing but CHAOS, with NO guide line, NO purpose whatsoever, except the one that we give ourselves as members of a society, as we have to live together which is engraved in our nature, thus making us social animals, perhaps, and necessiciated for the continuity of the our species.

«We will be working together to deliver environmental water to smaller local wetland and floodplain sites to improve habitat and provide refuges for endangered and threatened native bird and fish species such as the Regent Parrot and the Murray Hardyhead,» Mr Reilly said.

Get a glimpse of the grandeur beneath the waves as 100 species from around the world come together in an evocative new space.

Now, Hotsoup.com's goals seem entirely worthy to me: of course we'd like to see people come together across the ideological gorges that separate us as a people and as a species.

Now zoos and other institutions worldwide are working together on an «Amphibian Ark» to help save all these species as they vanish in the wild, in the hope of one day returning them home.

LICHEN RECOUNT A tropical lichen that biologists long knew as Dictyonema glabratum turns out to be one of at least 100 different species that had been lumped together under that name, DNA studies now show.

In zoos, the different giraffe types now being proposed as separate species did the one thing that has traditionally defined animals as a single species: They bred together and produced what seemed like viable offspring.

Paleontologists at the University of Bonn, together with scientists from the Alexander Koenig Research Museum in Bonn as well as the Universities of Kassel, Gdańsk (Poland) and Lucknow (India) with the Museum for Materials Research at the Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht, have now discovered and described a new species in 54 million - year - old amber.

It remains an enigma why these cicadas only emerge together in the adult stage every 13 or 17 years, as opposed to some other duration — other cicada species are not so synchronized.

Rather than looking out only for themselves like other bacterial species, the individual myxobacteria cells band together as a social group to assist their kin that become damaged.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

As I watch them on the screen, Provine's teenagers remind me of an old Carl Sagan riff, which begins with his describing «a species of primate» that likes to gather in packs of 50 or 60 individuals, cram together in a darkened cave, and hyperventilate in unison, to the point of almost passing out.

A regional check list such as this one and a worldwide check list can work together to reinforce precision in the definition and communication about species, especially decreasing confusion about synonyms.

More recently they were lumped together as a lone species, Loxodonta africana.

As the genomes of more and more species are sequenced, geneticists are piecing together an extraordinarily detailed «Making of...» documentary.

As mussels cluster together in beds, they provide a protective home for hundreds of other species.

For the study, the researchers classified all 2500 mammalian species for which information exists as either solitary, socially monogamous or group - living (several breeding females share a common range and either eat or sleep together).

However, anthropogenic (environmental change caused by humans) activities such as shipping promote the artificial transport of species and bring distant populations together, leading to the crossing of individuals and therefore genetic material.

Other rays such as cownose rays, swim together, but typically in schools of their own species.

The nest of the highly territorial fire ant, an invasive species from Brazil and Argentina, ismade up of many identical tunnel - and - chamber arrays, which Tschinkel describes as shish kebabs, densely packed together.

At least twice, the two species came together, as they now seem to be coming together again, she explains.

The colonies of most ant species, including the harvester, are social, cooperative, seamless organisms, differing from what we think of as an individual organism only in that «they're not stuck together,» as Tschinkel puts it.

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.

Although it was first seen in the 1940s to be the evolutionary glue that held species together, and thus a significant evolutionary force, a few decades later when quantitative data on gene flow in plant populations began being collected, this view changed as evidence seemed to indicate that gene flow was not all that significant.

Conservationists have, through heroic efforts, wrestled species such as the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx), the black - footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) and the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) back from the brink of extinction by bringing all the remaining animals together, using artificial insemination to spread sperm and maximize genetic diversity, and keeping offspring alive through round - the - clock husbandry.

For example, the scientists think the sharks traveled in their mixed - species groups for most of the day for protection against tiger sharks, which are much larger and often prey on their smaller peers (much as herding animals like gazelles stay together for protection against hungry lions).

«The spiders of one species were collected in the year 2004 by my doctoral student at the time, Dirk Kunz, and I now described them together scientifically as May bruno.»

Publishers Weekly Greenberg pulls together a wealth of material from myriad sources to describe the life and death of this species, describing the majesty of millions flying overhead for hours as well as the horror of tens of thousands of birds being slaughtered while they nested.

I think I've discovered why this is such a potent combo, it's because the combination of different fatty acids together with the potent anti microbial and anti fungal action of GSE have a powerful broad - spectrum effect on the many (19) different species of candida as well as the literally hundreds of other strains of yeast and bacteria which populate the gastrointestinal tract of many patients with chronic yeast infections.

For example, KBs were recently reported to act as neuroprotective agents by raising ATP levels and reducing the production of reactive oxygen species in neurological tissues, 80 together with increased mitochondrial biogenesis, which may help to enhance the regulation of synaptic function.80 Moreover, the increased synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids stimulated by a KD may have a role in the regulation of neuronal membrane excitability: it has been demonstrated, for example, that polyunsaturated fatty acids modulate the excitability of neurons by blocking voltage-gated sodium channels.81 Another possibility is that by reducing glucose metabolism, ketogenic diets may activate anticonvulsant mechanisms, as has been reported in a rat model.82 In addition, caloric restriction per se has been suggested to exert neuroprotective effects, including improved mitochondrial function, decreased oxidative stress and apoptosis, and inhibition of proinflammatory mediators, such as the cytokines tumour necrosis factor - α and interleukins.83 Although promising data have been collected (see below), at the present time the real clinical benefits of ketogenic diets in most neurological diseases remain largely speculative and uncertain, with the significant exception of its use in the treatment of convulsion diseases.

There are three working theories about why we, as opposed to other species, like to lock lips: kissing can arouse, it cements relationships together or it's a trial run of a potential mate.

It can be really fun if you have friends who refuse to play the same species as yourself in the other team death match and this way you can all get together with your preferred species and have fun.

Student work together as team within their species.

It was our first New Year's Eve together as that eager, barely tolerable species: raffish apartment - dweller - type dudes, barely out of high school.

The domestic cat is no longer an exclusively solitary species as it now lives close together with other animals and humans, benefits from cooperation, and needs to resolve conflict without physical confrontation.

Keep the babies together as long as they are about the same age; this will help socialize them to their own species and will help in keeping them warm.

Together with his team, Parrish is showing in detail how those viruses jumped into and spread between dogs and how they sometimes infect other animals — including cats and wild species such as raccoons and foxes.

It is good for kittens to grow up with another member of their own species, as they learn how to be normal cats through playing together — for the same reasons people take puppies to the park or dog classes to socialise with other puppies, and human children are taken to playgroups to mix with other children.

Having graduate training in Developmental Psychology and knowing that basic learning occurs across species, it's my understanding, that sleeping together can engender an unhealthy attachment in dogs, as it often does with children.

The size of the cage to set up for arriving birds depends on how many of the same species pets are coming in, as it is always best to keep young birds together for the first week or two.

The most popular pet videos are those that show pets snuggling or playing with each other — especially ones featuring different species such as a parrot and a cat playing together.

Together they will comb the parks, observing and recording as many plant and animal species as possible in 24 hours.