Sentences with phrase «very different adaptations»

, which has now sustained itself over three very different adaptations.

Not exact matches

Conceived as we now conceive them, as so many fortunate escapes from almost limitless processes of destruction, the benevolent adaptations which we find in Nature suggest a deity very different from the one who figured in the earlier versions of the argument.

First, locally adapted strains are likely to suffer higher mortality when they are moved to very different conditions — local adaptation is a product of directional selection such that adapting to one environment is likely to reduce performance in another environment (5, 6).

Whereas increasing genetic variability in a population, and increasing the proportion of adapted genotypes might facilitate rapid adaptation, mixing very different populations can lead to unexpected and deleterious outcomes (10).

The history of nanotech would have been very different if social processes of acceptance and adaptation had gone in different directions.»

Indeed, at least some of the neural adaptations to strength training are extremely velocity - specific or duration - specific (Tillin et al. 2012b; 2014), as well as movement pattern - specific (Almåsbakk & Hoff, 1996), and COD maneuvers certainly involve very different movement patterns and higher velocity movements than most strength training exercises.

His latest is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic 19th century novel about the independent Bathsheba Everdeen's complicated relationships with three very different men.

Aaron Eckhart stars as a very different monster in this adaptation of Kevin Grevioux «s graphic novel in which Frankenstein's creation comes to the defense of the human race as it faces extinction at the hands of immortal clans led by Bill Nighy and Miranda Otto.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York.

McAvoy and Fassbender, two smart, elegant heartthrobs who are usually more at home in a very different kind of literary adaptation, bring a frisson of intimacy to their scenes together.

A batch of new images have surfaced from two very different upcoming action films - namely, the comic book adaptation Priest and the George Clooney assassin thriller, The American.

Lost in the game: on the two very different screen adaptations of Edith Wharton's sumptuous and tormented novel of Gilded Age New York

In very different ways, each adaptation is sure footed enough to give cinematic expression to the complexity of the original authors» portrait of extraordinary systems and ordinary lives.

Although it's the third film in as many years about astronauts in distress, «The Martian» is a smart, captivating and humorous adaptation of Andy Weir's bestselling novel that covers very different narrative and emotional territory than «Gravity» and «Interstellar.»

This process of tribal adaptation is one that is usually linked to depressing questions of commercialisation and how private and state funding come with a very different set of cultural provisos.

Harbor's look also has a very different hair style than Perlman in the Guillermo del Toro film adaptations.

The 1945 cinematic adaptation of Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring, of course, Joan Crawford, is a very different beast to the 2011 HBO mini-series starring Kate Winslet.

Rabbit teeth are very different from human teeth in that they are constantly growing, an adaptation seen in animals that eat vegetation.

I believe that the majority of game to movie adaptations are going to continue to fall short because games are designed very different in their story and characters.

At the same time la chingada is a very dynamic term, which has been subject of numerous adaptations during the different eras of Mexican history.

Figure 2 shows that the lifetime of the adaptation decision is a key factor determining whether planning needs to address a relatively certain set of changes, or allow for diverging, and potentially very different, climate futures.

Most organizations are very familiar with uncertainty of many different kinds and even qualitative guidance can have substantial value in the design of robust adaptation strategies which minimize vulnerability to both climate variability and change.