Sentences with phrase «years of evolution between»

Not exact matches

It said this would support its target of 5 percent per year on average output growth between 2016 and 2022, even though Total noted that the global environment remained volatile with persistent uncertainty around the evolution of global supply.

The contrast between Darwinian evolution and the creative or emergent evolution of recent years may be sharpened if we look more closely at the decisive notions which are seen to be formative in each case.

A word written in the book numbers might have had a different meaning from the same word in revelations as there is 1000 years of language evolution between the two writings.

The most critical years of decision in all human evolution, from thousands of years in the past to thousands of years in the future, are just these between now and 1984.

The interactions of various religions and their evolution, including not only Christain evolution but the intereactions between religions leading to more evolved religious thought, have fascinated me for many years.

Just how important Brexit has been as a recruiting sergeant for the Conservatives becomes even clearer if we look separately at the evolution of the Conservative vote between, first, 2015 and the Scottish Parliament election in May 2016, and, second, between May 2016 and the UK general election in June this year.

After years of watching the evolution of politics online, and specifically on Facebook, I've come to realise that there is a clear need to bridge the gap between citizens and politicians.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

The researchers conclude «The correlation between lineage specific adaptations and ability to restrict viruses endemic to the same hosts supports the hypothesis that lentiviruses closely related to modern SIVs were present in Africa and infecting the ancestors of cercopithecine primates as far back as 16 million years ago, and provides insight into the evolution of TRIM5 specificity.»

To help clear up the evolution of farming in the West, the investigators compared genetic information from Europeans living during the Neolithic period (a.k.a. the late Stone Age, 10,000 - 4,000 years ago; the chronology varies between Europe and the Near East) with that from nine individuals excavated from two ancient settlements in Anatolia (the area between the Black and the Mediterranean Seas).

It identified significant convergence in body form between Australian freshwater terapontid grunters and several distantly related marine fish families separated by 30 - 50 million years of evolution.

Sequencing of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA allowed comparison between the relative rates of evolution, which suggested that the coalescence, or origin, of the human Y chromosome and mitochondria both occurred approximately 120 thousand years ago.

Using Australia's National Computational Infrastructure's supercomputer Raijin, the team created high - resolution three - dimensional simulations of mantle evolution over the past 200 million years to understand the coupling between convection in the deep Earth and volcanism.

The stars may be passing through a stage of stellar evolution that lasts no more than a few tens of thousands of years, the scientists say — a phase between red giants (about 30 or 40 times the size of our sun) and blue subdwarfs (stars about one - fifth the size of our sun but seven times hotter and 70 times brighter).

Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point in an interview in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»

And 30 years ago, when the field of evolutionary psychology was gaining steam, some facile parallels between ancient and modern behaviors lodged themselves in the popular conceptions of human evolution.

This means that palaeontologists can now trace the evolution of the frog body plan back 190 million years, narrowing the gap between Triadobatrachus and modern frogs and toads.

It would be comforting to think that a few hundred million years of evolution have put considerable distance between us and our insect kin, but only some of us are immune to insect - killing venoms.

The problem, according to a team of 12 experts from five countries, stems from a «mismatch» between the structural complexity that nature selected over billions of years of evolution and the minimalist designs of synthetic nanomaterials, optimized for lab conditions.

Raymond White, a human genetics researcher at UCSF's Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center in Emeryville, said the points of similarity between mouse and human genomes were vitally important — they represent bits of genetic material that have survived, intact, over 75 million years of evolution.

Evolution, our coping strategy Presented with fragmented vegetation and greater distances between sources of food may have led to the evolution of human bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — around six million yEvolution, our coping strategy Presented with fragmented vegetation and greater distances between sources of food may have led to the evolution of human bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — around six million yevolution of human bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — around six million years ago.

Ash was part of Expedition 374, which spent 46 days at sea this year to study the evolution of the Ross Sea ice sheet off West Antarctica and the relationship between climatic and oceanic change through the Neogene and Quaternary periods, from 23 million years ago to the present day.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.

«Anatomically modern humans colonized Europe around 45,000 - 43,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals approximately 3,000 years later, with potential cultural and biological interactions between these two human groups,» said Professor Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and lead author of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

It took me on a global quest to discover the similarities between what happened thousands of years ago and what is happening now, as we face what promises to be another turning apparent point in our evolution.

One of the great unknowns in the history of life is the part that Antarctica may have played in the evolution and migration of vertebrates (backboned animals) during the key time interval that spans the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and the beginning of the Age of Mammals (the Cretaceous — Paleogene or K — Pg, between 100 and 40 million years ago).

The abstract of the paper in Nature reads: «A key event in human evolution is the expansion of modern humans of African origin across Eurasia between 60 and 40 thousand years (kyr) before present (bp), replacing all other forms of hominins1.

Ancient origins, evolution, and the future of bread wheat agriculture Originally formed during the spread of agriculture among settled societies, bread wheat came about from the hybridization between cultivated wheat (T. dicoccoides) and goat grass (Aegilops tauschii) about 8,000 years ago.

This allowed them to compare the level of expression of more than 1,000 genes between humans, chimps, orangutans and rhesus macaques — representing about 70 million years of evolution.

We are very impressed by Fred Kavli's design of these new awards, which span from the very grand scale of astrophysics to the microscopic level of nanotechnology, and to the level in between: the brain - no doubt the most complex organ created by the biological evolution over a very, very long time... billions of years.

A 15 - year odyssey, set between 1999 and the present day, Vox Lux tracks the important cultural evolutions of the 21st Century through Celeste's eyes, and the soundtrack will feature all original songs written by Grammy - nominated artist Sia.

This 15 - year odyssey, set between 1999 and the present day, tracks the important cultural evolutions of the 21st Century via her gaze.

In the interview, Pete talks about some of his favorite movies he recommends to friends, the evolution of the project over the years, how he got involved as a director, his vision behind the stark contrast between the beautiful, almost photo realistic backgrounds and the cartoony characters, a scene from the film that I felt was a homage to Jaws, the 1400 kid search for the main star of this film, how directing the voice actors for the English version of Miyazaki's Ponyo helped him in making this film, and find out who directs Peter Sohn when he performs in his own film.

Figure 1a shows the evolution of the gap in years of completed schooling by age 24 between children who, between the ages of 14 and 16, never lived with a single parent and those who lived with a single parent at least one of the three years.

From the days when critics insisted ebooks were a flash in the pan and publishers refused to invest in a technology that obviously wasn't going to pay off, to the years in between when numbers slowly trickled in that demonstrated a rise in popularity and wider adoption of digital reading, the concept of a book has made a quick evolution.

While this may be unexpected to some, the primary difference between the bird species is simply a result of evolution, as they have different chromosome sequences that have adapted over millions of years.

The difference between us and our pets is that our pets can't outright tell us that they're in pain - often, the exact opposite is true - they hide all signs of pain as a survival mechanism they developed over thousands of years of evolution to keep weakness hidden from predators and other members of their own colonies, Your pet may tell you in different ways when they are uncomfortable, such as by whining or whimpering, staying too still and showing little interest in what's going on around them, sleeping more than usual, becoming aggressive or intolerant of petting or exercise or even by becoming more active - pacing, circling, wandering - as the pain is too much for them to sit still and rest.

There have been a number of criticism of the Armored Core series over the years, with the perhaps the two most notable, recurring gripes being the lack of evolution between games, and the series» staple obtuseness.

Japan's Daigo «The Beast» Umehara, winner of Evolution 2009's Street Fighter IV competition, is also the winner of this year's Super Street Fighter IV tournament at the Evo Championship series, besting Ricky Ortiz last night in an exciting match between his Ryu and Ortiz's Rufus — you can watch a video of the match above.

The exhibition traces the evolution of his distinct vocabulary — from his initial years captivating the artistic bohemia of inter-war Paris, to his later life spent between the towns of Roxbury in Connecticut and Saché in France.

The exhibition traces the evolution of his distinct vocabulary — from his initial years captivating the artistic bohemia of inter-war Paris, to his later life spent between the towns of Roxbury in Connecticut and Sachéin France.

The show traces Carroll's artistic evolution over more than 30 years through around 60 works produced between the mid-1980s and the present, many of which have never been exhibited before and some realized expressly for the occasion.

Vasif Kortun on the balance between institutional evolution and diversity In recent years I have been involved in a series of interviews with architects, curators, and brilliant, quirky unorthodox museum professionals such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kathy Halbreich, Marie - Claude BeaudView More >

Presented chronologically, the works show the evolution of Zobernig's painting over the last six years, testimony of the evolution of his work and the hinge between each series.

The evolution of Still's art during the following years by no means follows a straight line, but charts a zigzag course which, within the boundaries of his already totally individual and identifiable style, seems to oscillate, as it simultaneously advances and clarifies itself between polarities of expression.

Shaviv and Veizer (2003) published a paper in the journal GSA Today, where the authors claimed to establish a correlation between cosmic ray flux (CRF) and temperature evolution over hundreds of millions of years, concluding that climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide was much smaller than currently accepted.

The report also documented the evolution of the indicators between 1990 and 2010 to provide a baseline for assessing progress in the next twenty years.

The rear - facing camera is a silver - accented evolution of the sensor on last year's Moto G, a 16 - megapixel shooter with a f / 2.0 aperture that's sandwiched between a dual LED flash and two autofocus sensors (more on those later).