Sentences with phrase «understands evolutionary»

He gives no indication that he understands evolutionary theory, but that is hard to know through the fog of motivated reasoning.

In general, to understand evolutionary biology, one must understand the concepts of genetic inheritance, population genetics, and have a grasp on the concept of speciation.

Common misrepresentation by those who do not understand, or want to understand the evolutionary theory.

It also shows, contrary to Inherit the Wind, that he was familiar with Darwin, and may even have understood the evolutionary doctrine better than his adversaries, or at least had a better idea of what was really at stake.

Same goes for evolution... read and understand an evolutionary biology textbook before arguing against it.

Whatever your decision about co-sleeping with your little one, we recommend reading Dr. McKenna's article referenced here, in the sources below, and in the text above, as it provides a clear explanation of the controversy surrounding co-sleeping and can help you make the best decision according to your lifestyle, housing and financial situation as well as understand the evolutionary significance of co-sleeping.

To understand this evolutionary achievement requires an awareness of wood structure, some of the biological processes occurring within trees and the physical properties of water.

Now, scientists Bret Boyd et al. have sought to better understand the evolutionary history of bacteria residing within lice.

Jones» colleague Elizabeth Murchison, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. (and a Tasmanian expat), is working to understand the evolutionary process.

«This work helps us understand the evolutionary history of eusocial and communally breeding social systems, which are socially more complex than pair - forming,» he added.

In the current study, scientists aimed to better understand an evolutionary history that morphological analysis and the fossil record has fallen short of firmly establishing, said Jesse Breinholt, co-author and a postdoctoral researcher with the Florida Museum.

Christian Rabeling, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, says that although the study furthers our understanding the evolutionary history of the Formica genus, the family tree included less than 10 % of the 175 known species, a major limitation.

Large scale sequencing approach and genome wide analysis can be applied on different economic crops for better understanding their evolutionary process and specific traits, providing unique opportunities for further applications.»

A biologist, Schaal was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants and she has worked to advance understanding of plants» molecular systems and population genetics.

It's important to document as a way to better understand the evolutionary processes shaping the plant root microbiome.»

Since brains and other soft tissues are essentially made of fatty - like substances, finding them as fossils is extremely rare, which makes understanding their evolutionary history difficult.

Understanding the evolutionary history of organisms is important for myriad reasons.

To combat these threats it is important to understand the evolutionary history of honeybees and how they are adapted to different environments across the world.

We wanted to understand the evolutionary links between this exceptional living group, and their Mesozoic relatives, including well - known extinct species like T. rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus,» said Dr Roger Benson of Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the study.

Dr Clint Perry, another lead author of the study, added: «Despite the obvious differences between humans and other animals, understanding social learning and culture in animals holds a key to understanding the evolutionary roots of the peculiarities of social learning and culture in humans.»

The team conducted phylogenetic analyses to understand the evolutionary relationships of these and other titanosaurs.

«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.

She was accepted as a doctoral student there and began a research career in which she was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.

Darwin was interested in studying how facial expressions affected an animal's survival, in order to understand their evolutionary history.

«Understanding the evolutionary trajectory that nature used to create oxygen production in photosynthesis is one component that will help scientists design an efficient and effective system.

The completeness of the specimens from Shuitangba allows the scientists to better understand the evolutionary history of otters and specifically this enigmatic genus from the Miocene, of which there had been little information.

Dr Lighten added: «It is an important step forward in understanding the evolutionary genetics of the immune system, and can help explain some of the puzzling observations observed in previous studies of many other organisms.»

First, it reiterates that natural history observations, often ignored, are fundamental for understanding evolutionary ecology.

Now, researchers working with that hypothesis have achieved a significant advancement toward understanding an evolutionary mystery — how components of RNA and DNA formed from chemicals present on early Earth before life existed.

«Further investigations should help us understand the evolutionary forces that generate diversity and similarity among populations,» he says.

This discovery is fundamental for understanding the evolutionary ecology and behavior in anuran amphibians» says Prof. SD Biju from University of Delhi, who led this study.

Furthermore understanding why populations sometimes reproduce asexually may help us to understand the evolutionary advantage of sex, which is a major conundrum for evolutionary biologists, says Matthew Webster», researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University.

The findings not only suggest a different approach to the aesthetics of singing but could have a role in understanding the evolutionary development of the scales, as well as applications to childhood singing development and speech production for tone languages.

This frog will help us understand the evolutionary pattern that led to frogs being glass - like, he says.

Kohn, Nakhleh and lead author Kevin Liu, their former postdoctoral researcher and now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, employed Rice's supercomputers and the Nakhleh lab's open - source PhyloNet - HMM software to locate statistically likely connections between the re-sequenced complete genomes, some newly determined and some collected previously in a massive effort to understand the evolutionary origins of the laboratory mouse genome.

«We can't begin to understand how malaria spread to humans until we understand its evolutionary history,» said lead author Holly Lutz, a doctoral candidate in the fields of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Cornell University.

«This collection of papers is a major step toward understanding the evolutionary history and biogeographic history that have given rise to the species that we see in South American today, and it will play a key role in identifying conservation priorities for species,» Alfaro said.

Each of the working groups is responsible for developing a proposal for a set of genomes to sequence that would advance knowledge in one of three important scientific areas: identifying areas in genetic research where the application of high - throughput sequencing resources would rapidly lead to significant medical advances; understanding of the human genome; and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes.

To better understand the evolutionary origins of this phenomenon, Benjamin Winger, a graduate student of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues Keith Barker, PhD, a University of Chicago alumnus now at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, and Richard Ree, PhD, of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, developed a new model to infer the historical geographic distributions of migratory birds.

This search led me to Warren Ewens and Joshua Plotkin, who showed me how quantitative approaches could be especially instructive in understanding evolutionary biology.

Although we are beginning to understand the evolutionary relation between normal and active galaxies, many questions remain unanswered.

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.

To understand the evolutionary impacts and trajectories of DNA gain and loss dynamics we analysed their genomic distributions in the context of various genomic features and biological processes.

«I was so fascinated by the fact that we could know each detail of the genome and use this information to understand our evolutionary journey of millions of years, and cure diseases for future generations,» says Liang.

«We hope that these data will allow the Anopheles research community to understand the evolutionary processes that make Anopheles gambiae such a formidable malaria vector.»

We consider the unique combination of having alive bio-assays of pathogen «races» in house, and the possibility to investigate the same material by advanced molecular tools, as a major advance for understanding the evolutionary processes of the wheat rusts.

An international team of astronomers has revealed that a fossilized remnant of the early Milky Way can help them bridge the gap between the galaxy's past and present, allowing them to better understand its evolutionary history.

To investigate the genomic processes of horse domestication, we must first understand the evolutionary relationships between domesticated horses, Przewalski's horses, and the two newly sequenced ancient horses (SI Appendix, section S2).

To better understand the evolutionary history of immune genes in Nasonia, we estimated gene age for all OGSv2 gene models.

This is an important step to understand the evolutionary process of starburst galaxies and supermassive black holes in galaxies.