• Dietary change has been linked to many aspects of human evolution over the last 3 million years, including tool use, brain size increase, aerobic capacity and gut biology. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the study of the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth . (wikimedia.org)
  • The tools of modern biology have made dissecting the molecular genetics of adaptation possible, especially in Drosophila. (unc.edu)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution (2023). (phys.org)
  • Adding to this repertoire of changes, a recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution reveals the genetic mechanisms by which the visual systems of Antarctic icefishes have adapted to both the extreme cold and the unique lighting conditions under Antarctic sea ice. (phys.org)
  • A colleague in the States who is a firm believer in the importance of genes in development and evolution says he uses the Delisi quotation in his developmental biology class to show the stupidity of the reductionist paradigm. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017, 17 (7). (ncl.ac.uk)
  • EBIO Departmental Honors is a program for students in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department who engage in independent research with a faculty advisor and write and defend an Honors thesis. (colorado.edu)
  • Genetic methods are central to biology in the 21st century, but how can we use these technologies to address ecological and evolutionary questions in the field? (exeter.ac.uk)
  • This module aims to develop and expand your understanding of the principles introduced in BIO1411 (Genetics) by considering how molecular genetic tools and techniques are used in ecology, evolution and conservation biology. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • A team of scientists from the University of California, San Diego and Princeton, led by postdoctoral researcher Sudeshna Saha, published a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution showing that grandmothering might well have been an important driver of the evolution of certain genes that contribute to a healthy immune system, along with resistance to cognitive decline with age. (nautil.us)
  • In short, what if it's an aberration rather than an adaptation, something that has arisen because our reproductive biology was tuned to prehistoric times when people simply didn't live as long as they do today? (nautil.us)
  • On the Master's programme in Evolutionary Biology you will learn how to unravel the history of life by examining diversification, adaptation, and how the evolutionary process itself evolves. (lu.se)
  • Evolution affects biology at all levels, from molecules to ecosystems, and our courses and research projects provide unique opportunities to study this diversity. (lu.se)
  • You will acquire conceptual and methodological skills in molecular and genome evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, and evolutionary ecology. (lu.se)
  • Our teaching promotes an active, inquiry-based learning that is integrated with our Department's world-leading research on the evolutionary biology of microbes, plants, and animals. (lu.se)
  • Software and Databases for Molecular Evolutionary Biology. (who.int)
  • The Molecular and Cultural Evolution Lab (MACE) undertakes research into the evolutionary processes that shape patterns of modern and ancient human molecular and cultural variation. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • We suggest that contemporary evolution could help to maintain the functionality of microbial processes at the base of marine food webs in the face of global change. (nature.com)
  • Biologists now know that cities not only influence factors driving nonadaptive change, via such evolutionary processes as genetic drift and gene flow, but present a suite of special selection pressures for species living there, promoting adaptation too. (the-scientist.com)
  • The overarching theme of my research is how the sensory and cognitive processes of predators influence the evolution of their prey. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • His work is tied to human evolution, including evolutionary adaptation and the evolutionary processes that lead to genetic disease. (theconversation.com)
  • The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • Recently, however, it has become increasingly clear that evolutionary processes take place over much shorter timescales than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • Psychology and psychiatry have not generally embraced evolutionary explanations for behaviors, and the proposed explanations for the evolution of depression remain controversial. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evolutionary psychology and its application in evolutionary medicine suggest how behaviour and mental states, including seemingly harmful states such as depression, may have been beneficial adaptations of human ancestors which improved the fitness of individuals or their relatives. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using evolutionary psychology, this paper presents a typology of advertising cues and explains their cross-cultural relevance and transportability. (businessperspectives.org)
  • My work investigates how predator psychology influences the evolution of preys' chemical defences and their chemical and visual signals. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • The scientific basis of evolutionary psychology is not based on a single methodology, instead relying on converging evidence from various methodologies and information sources. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Methods that span cultural boundaries offer valuable resources for evaluating evolutionary psychology ideas. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Over the last years the evolutionary psychology has been presented as an approach to explain psychological phenomena. (bvsalud.org)
  • What is the genomic basis of local adaptation along clines? (unifr.ch)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2021) 11 (7): 3015. (karger.com)
  • Our research is primarily focused on the ecology and evolution of animal flight. (lu.se)
  • Our research lies at the interface of development, ecology, and evolution. (lu.se)
  • Adaptation to climate across the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. (nature.com)
  • He focuses on understanding genome organization and dynamics, and how their interplay shapes bacterial adaptation. (elsevier.com)
  • 2014 . Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. (sc.edu)
  • Whole-genome sequencing analysis, an essential tool for shedding light on the obscure evolution of Staphylococcus aureus USA300. (cdc.gov)
  • These findings highlight the importance of within-species genetic heterogeneity in facilitating an evolutionary response to a changing climate. (nature.com)
  • Evolutionary biologists study the descent of species , and the origin of new species . (wikimedia.org)
  • However, phytoplankton species with short generation times, in particular, may be able to respond to environmental alterations through adaptive evolution. (nature.com)
  • As researchers are realizing that evolution can, and regularly does, happen at a much faster pace than previously thought-on the order of decades and centuries rather than millennia and eras-they are beginning to observe the effects of this global urbanization on species' genetic makeup. (the-scientist.com)
  • The world is full of cities, and for many species, each city is an independent theater of evolution. (the-scientist.com)
  • We investigated the evolutionary significance of this geographic variation by experimentally decreasing or increasing the amount of white in the tail of slate-throated redstarts ( Myioborus miniatus comptus ) from Monteverde, Costa Rica, to mimic the natural extremes of tail pattern variation in this species. (bioone.org)
  • Darwinism is a theory of evolution based upon inherited variations in organisms and natural selection of fitter variants to produce species adapted to their habitats. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • Evolution is about the origin of species, the emergence of new types of organism characterised by distinctive morphologies and behaviours. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • Individual plants of Brassicaceae Lineage II were attacked by a larger number of herbivore species from a larger species pool, resulting in a higher uncertainty of realized antagonistic interactions compared to plants in Lineage I. We argue that uncertainty of attack in terms of realized interactions on individual plants is ecologically relevant and must therefore be considered in the evolution of plant defences. (biorxiv.org)
  • However, these macro-evolutionary patterns are generally described for the full potential pool of antagonist species interacting with a plant species, whereas natural selection by these antagonists acts on the level of plant individuals. (biorxiv.org)
  • Variation across plant species in the uncertainty of attack may strongly impact the evolution of such plastic defence strategies. (biorxiv.org)
  • In conclusion, comparing various species is an effective way to evaluate theories about how adaptation works. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • We analyze population and strategy (= heritable phenotype) dynamics of the two populations under clade initiation (when species are introduced into a population), evolutionary tracking (constant, small changes in the environment), adaptive radiation (availability of multiple ecological niches), and evolutionary rescue (extreme environmental disturbances). (lu.se)
  • We find that when species are far from an eco-evolutionary equilibrium, faster-evolving species reach higher population sizes, and when species are close to an equilibrium, slower-evolving species are more successful. (lu.se)
  • Finally, disrupting the environment at intermediate frequencies can result in coexistence with cyclical population dynamics of species with different rates of evolution. (lu.se)
  • The H5N1 Inventory should be used by those conducting surveillance in humans and animals as well as research on influenza H5N1 viruses as a reference for the identification of specific mutations in naturally occurring H5N1 viruses that may signal adaptation to mammalian species or alter susceptibility to existing antivirals. (cdc.gov)
  • The resulting adaptation trait may reverse, or become fixed in the population leading to evolution of species. (bvsalud.org)
  • We are facing a scientific revolution in the understanding of how human impacts on biodiversity affect ecosystem services - evolutionary studies can contribute to understanding not only changes in species composition but also how species adaptation affects important ecosystem services," says Mikael Pontarp. (lu.se)
  • Over just a few generations, the genetic composition of species can change in response to environmental changes, altering not only the overall species composition but also the adaptation of individual species. (lu.se)
  • The evolution of one species thus potentially also effects other species. (lu.se)
  • Ethology Ecology & Evolution (2022) 34 (5): 557. (karger.com)
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (2022) 338 (8): 460. (karger.com)
  • Evolutionary Applications (2022) 15 (4): 603. (karger.com)
  • Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 2022, 10 , 951967. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Evolutionary approaches to depression are attempts by evolutionary psychologists to use the theory of evolution to shed light on the problem of mood disorders within the perspective of evolutionary psychiatry. (wikipedia.org)
  • The papers describe both the theory and practical application of evolutionary programming, as well as other methods of evolutionary computation including evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and cultural algorithms. (mit.edu)
  • Ability to distinguish well-founded, and erroneous statements concerning biodiversity, the theory of evolution, and ecological science. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Ability to explain the major components of the theory of evolution and of the main sections of the science of ecology and biogeography, and a range of examples of the application of ecology. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Understanding of the theory of evolution and the classification of biodiversity. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • integrating an understanding of mechanisms into life history theory will be one of the most exciting tasks facing evolutionary biologists in the 21st century. (unifr.ch)
  • The Neurology and Evolution of Humor, Laughter, and Smiling: The False Alarm Theory. (businessperspectives.org)
  • However, the idea of soft inheritance long antedates him, formed only a small element of his theory of evolution, and was in his time accepted by many natural historians. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lamarck's contribution to evolutionary theory consisted of the first truly cohesive theory of biological evolution, [9] in which an alchemical complexifying force drove organisms up a ladder of complexity, and a second environmental force adapted them to local environments through use and disuse of characteristics, differentiating them from other organisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • To test the theory that specific adaptations have been made to fend off those predators (such as specialized alarm cries made when meeting a picture of the predator), we can compare animals with recognized competitors with those missing those predators. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • The primary goal is to theorize, design, and conduct longitudinal studies of human adaptation and cultural dynamics in ecological context. (mpg.de)
  • We argue that in the field of sports science the psychobiological functions that have evolved to face and deal with the complex social dynamics of competition have not been thoroughly analyzed from an evolutionary perspective. (springer.com)
  • By viewing this capacity as a trait, evolvability is subject to natural selection and thus plays a critical role in eco-evolutionary dynamics. (lu.se)
  • The main goal of this project is to dissect the relationship between HIV-1 viral diversity, evolutionary dynamics, innate immune responses, and acute retroviral syndrome during acute HIV-1 infection, and how they contribute to disease pathogenesis during the acute and chronic stages of infection. (lu.se)
  • In-depth analysis of how HIV evolutionary dynamics in diversity and divergence as well as adaptation to host immune responses require methods that enable large-scale and thorough dissection of the HIV quasispecies. (lu.se)
  • These patterns are consistent with evolutionary theories of aging which posit that selection against dysfunctional traits decreases with age (because there is a decreasing probability of surviving to later ages). (wikipedia.org)
  • 3.2 Constructing phylogenetic trees 3.3 Uses of phylogenetic trees: reconstructing the evolution of organismal traits, historical biogeography. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • The components of fitness, so-called life-history traits (e.g., growth, size, fecundity, survival, lifespan), are complex polygenic traits that are fundamentally important for adaptation because they represent the targets of selection at the phenotypic level. (unifr.ch)
  • However, still little is known about the genetic basis of variation and evolutionary changes in such fitness-related traits. (unifr.ch)
  • We study these questions, e.g., in the context of climate adaptation and life-history clines across latitudinal gradients, chromosomal inversion polymorphisms maintained by spatially varying selection and other forms of balancing selection, and the evolution of aging and trade-offs associated with longevity and other fitness traits. (unifr.ch)
  • To address these longstanding problems we combine population genetics and population genomics, functional genetics, transcriptomics, physiology, and experimental evolution and apply them to natural and laboratory populations of D. melanogaster that are phenotypically differentiated for fitness-related traits. (unifr.ch)
  • We have a major interest in identifying the genes and molecular polymorphisms that underpin variation in fitness components (so-called life-history traits), such as body size, reproduction and lifespan, and in determining how they contribute to adaptation. (unifr.ch)
  • Studies of natural adaptations can lead to a greater understanding of the molecular genetics of important traits. (unc.edu)
  • Given the recent invention of modern sports, some disciplines may not require any specific evolved physical traits, that is, the evolutionary approach to sports science may be especially useful for those sports where physiological and morphological traits required also in foraging or fighting are necessary for success. (springer.com)
  • Although the experiment differs from most natural instances of selection in some important ways, the results give some very helpful corroboration that the recent human pattern of adaptive evolution was rapid and of an expected pattern for massive selection on many traits. (johnhawks.net)
  • His laboratory investigates the evolutionary history of genetic variations tied to interesting traits and diseases in modern and ancient human populations. (theconversation.com)
  • Deciphering the molecular basis of adaptive traits can thus give evolutionary clues. (bvsalud.org)
  • This timing suggests that these variants were associated with icefish adaptation and speciation in response to climatic events. (phys.org)
  • Genetic alleles conferring higher drought survival showed signatures of polygenic adaptation and were more frequently found in Mediterranean and Scandinavian regions. (nature.com)
  • How much of human evolution was due to polygenic adaptation? (johnhawks.net)
  • Their idea is that polygenic adaptations are unlikely to occur by successive "sweeps" of new adaptive mutations. (johnhawks.net)
  • It seems likely to us that, as in traditional quantitative genetic models, many possibly even most adaptive events in natural populations occur by polygenic adaptation. (johnhawks.net)
  • Polygenic adaptation could allow rapid adaptive shifts, yet would often go undetected using conventional methods for detecting selection. (johnhawks.net)
  • Moreover, polygenic adaptation is qualitatively different from the models of adaptive substitutions that dominate the population genetics literature. (johnhawks.net)
  • Hereford, J. A quantitative survey of local adaptation and fitness trade-offs. (nature.com)
  • That is, adaptation is a story of trade-offs and compromise. (portalit.net)
  • Hypotheses about the evolution of reaction centers and their evidences (Olson, Blankenship, Vermaas models, „export model", „redox switch" hypothesis, apoprotein early model). (elte.hu)
  • New studies reinforce the hypothesis that grandmothers fostered our evolutionary success. (nautil.us)
  • Interestingly, the amino acid changes observed in the Antarctic icefishes were distinct from those conferring cold adaptation in the high-altitude catfishes previously studied by the team, suggesting multiple pathways to adaptation in this protein. (phys.org)
  • Characterising protein-protein interaction networks will shed light on the evolution of plant metabolic pathways and potentially reveal overlooked proteins. (europa.eu)
  • While these three plant metabolic pathways are almost fully elucidated, little is known about (i) the organization of involved proteins in interacting networks and (ii) the evolutionary relevance of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks for the emergence and function of metabolic pathways. (europa.eu)
  • The project shall disclose the conservation or expansion of PPI networks in the course of land plant evolution and potentially identify overlooked protein involved in investigated metabolic pathways. (europa.eu)
  • Altogether, EPPIMAL will bring original information on the evolution of protein networks shaping three iconic land plant metabolic pathways that supported plant adaptation to land. (europa.eu)
  • Evolutionary development of biosynthetic pathways. (elte.hu)
  • It is believed that there are likely to be multiple evolutionary pathways that would increase mammalian transmissibility of avian influenza viruses, including HPAI H5N1 viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • 10. Hypotheses on the evolution of photosynthetic antennae. (elte.hu)
  • In conclusion, cross-cultural approaches are beneficial for evaluating a variety of evolutionary hypotheses as well as for comparing conflicting ideas. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In conclusion, physiological approaches are helpful for both testing adaptation-related hypotheses and determining the underlying causes of adaptations. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Advertised Waist-to-Hip Ratios of Online Female Escorts: An Evolutionary Perspective. (businessperspectives.org)
  • The Evolutionary Perspective. (slideserve.com)
  • The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings. (mpg.de)
  • An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. (lu.se)
  • Decreased cross-reactivity and increased pathogenicity of some H7N9 viruses was discovered only recently ( 9 ), and the genetic diversity and evolution of the current fifth epidemic wave of these viruses are not yet well understood. (cdc.gov)
  • The Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are committed to equal opportunities, diversity as well as gender equality. (mpg.de)
  • Tsagkogeorga G, Cahais V, Galtier N. The population genomics of a fast evolver: high levels of diversity, functional constraint, and molecular adaptation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis. (who.int)
  • We hypothesize that the increased metabolism and higher body temperatures of bats during flight might serve as an evolutionary adjuvant to their immune systems, providing a powerful selective force against virulence and promoting the diversity of viruses that infect bat populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Information necessary to clarify this situation includes geographic distribution of currently circulating H7N9 virus lineages, origin and genetic composition of newly emerged HP H7N9 viruses, and evolutionary and structural characterization of mutations associated with the fifth epidemic wave of these viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • The point is we can't model the environment closely enough to make an evolutionary simulation realistic.Look, yes, if we had the genetic code of the first multicellular organism that is our furthest ancestor, we could generate a sequence of additions and mutations that would lead us to where we are new. (fullcontactpoker.com)
  • We are interested in the population genetics and evolutionary genomics of adaptation , mainly by using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as an experimentally tractable model. (unifr.ch)
  • Meanwhile, Jonathan Pritchard and Anna Di Rienzo have a short review in the current Nature Reviews Genetics , discussing the idea that a large fraction of adaptive evolution may be difficult to find with current genetic evidence. (johnhawks.net)
  • We are interested in various aspects of the genetics of sex differences, including sexual selection and sexual conflict, the evolution of sexual dimorphism, and sex chromosome evolution. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary psychologists can use a wide range of scientific techniques. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • As a hypothetical example, consider the adaptation of human height a trait for which there are probably hundreds of SNPs that each affect height by a few millimeters. (johnhawks.net)
  • resistance as an evolutionary trait, or inherently resistant and misapplied evolutionary credit to it's rapid adaptation? (fullcontactpoker.com)
  • March 1-3, 1995, San Diego, California Evolutionary programming is one of the predominate algorithms withing the rapidly expanding field of evolutionary computation. (mit.edu)
  • The goal of my research is to identify, clone, and characterize the evolution of genes underlying natural adaptations in order to determine the types of genes involved, how many and what types of genetic changes occurred, and the evolutionary history of these changes. (unc.edu)
  • Clearly, a deeper understanding of how genes change during adaptation will give insight into the potential and limits of adaptive evolution. (unc.edu)
  • These data will provide new insight into how genomes evolve, which types of genes are evolving most rapidly, the relationships between recombination, DNA divergence, and DNA polymorphism, and details about the spatial and organizational evolution of genomes. (unc.edu)
  • Not by genes alone : how culture transformed human evolution. (businessperspectives.org)
  • The HIV-1 gag and env genes amplified from blood plasma samples of a unique cohort of acute HIV-1 infections are analyzed in this project with the aim to assess virus adaptations during acute HIV-1 infection and how these relates to the replicative capacity of the virus. (lu.se)
  • For the latter, a role may be played by certain genes, which were selected during evolution for survival by saving energy and fatty deposits during periods of good access to food, for resistance during periods of starvation. (lu.se)
  • Barrett, R. D. H. & Schluter, D. Adaptation from standing genetic variation. (nature.com)
  • Geographic variation in the plumage pattern of birds is widespread but poorly understood, and in very few cases has its evolutionary significance been investigated experimentally. (bioone.org)
  • The text includes a lot of background on evolution and physical variation. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Thus it is surprising that we know so little about the molecular basis of adaptive evolution. (unc.edu)
  • In this paper, we address the role of microRNAs, important gene expression regulators, in response to host-plant change and in adaptive evolution. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adaptation and subsequent shift in population due to passing it to the next generation is evolution. (fullcontactpoker.com)
  • This fact should give psychological mechanisms an important spotlight when studying the evolutionary function of performance. (springer.com)
  • An understanding of the basis of adaptation and evolutionary change. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Human evolutionary adaptation has brought greater chances of survival under hardships such as starvation and epidemics of dangerous diseases like malaria or the plague, for example. (lu.se)
  • The most cited articles from Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics published since 2020, extracted from Scopus . (elsevier.com)
  • The Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture investigates the role of culture in human evolution and adaptation. (mpg.de)
  • And how does this behaviour influence the evolution of prey defences? (ncl.ac.uk)
  • The general focus of the course is on behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. (lu.se)
  • Using both genetic, archaeological and anthropological data, in combination with computational modelling and statistical techniques, we aim to these adaptations and vulnerabilities to past dietary change. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • He studies microbial evolution using computational and experimental approaches. (elsevier.com)
  • We use computational tools to ask big multi-disciplinary questions concerning identity, genotype-phenotype relationships, and evolution. (lu.se)
  • Bio++: efficient, extensible libraries and tools for computational molecular evolution. (who.int)
  • Evolutionary origin, appearance and distribution of C4 and CAM CCM in autotrophic organisms. (elte.hu)
  • This ability influences the adaptations and fitness of individual organisms. (lu.se)
  • He was an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws . (wikipedia.org)
  • Around age 50, women stop ovulating, a biological mystery because reproduction is the sine qua non of evolutionary success, and yet menopause occurs at an age when women often have a few decades of healthy life ahead of them. (nautil.us)
  • These techniques may be employed to uncover the biological underpinnings of psychological adjustments and evaluate theories on the structural elements of those adaptations. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • From this approach, biological adaptation and natural selection are seen as causative events of modern psychological manifestations. (bvsalud.org)
  • Dynamic evolution of the alpha and beta keratins has accompanied integument diversification and the adaptation of birds into novel lifestyles. (sc.edu)
  • 2013 . Molecular evolution and expression of archosaurian b ‐ keratins: Diversification and expansion of archosaurian β ‐ keratins and the origin of feather β ‐ keratins. (sc.edu)
  • Using archaeological and ethnographic data, we seek to quantify these differences, and by doing so, better understand the evolution of our dietary preferences, including why we often seek foods that are unhealthy. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • The paper highlights three distinct categories - human universals (evolved similarities), local adaptations (evolved differences), and local socialization (differences not due to evolution). (businessperspectives.org)
  • Using geo-environmental models, we predicted that Central European, but not Mediterranean, populations might lag behind in adaptation by the end of the twenty-first century. (nature.com)
  • RÉSUMÉ La surveillance des virus de la grippe aviaire dans les populations de volailles égyptiennes est en cours depuis 2009. (who.int)
  • La surveillance des virus de la grippe aviaire doit se poursuivre en Égypte afin de déceler les futures évolutions de la circulation du H5N1 dans les populations de volailles. (who.int)
  • In humans we've found a lot of them, which is a big piece of evidence for the rapidity of human evolution during the past 40,000 years. (johnhawks.net)
  • Omer Gokcumen is an expert in evolutionary anthropology - the study of how humans evolved and how they differ from non-human primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees. (theconversation.com)
  • Early detection of the natural emergence of genetic changes that may enhance adaptation of HPAI H5N1 viruses for humans and/or other mammals or may impair antiviral interventions is an essential component of this effort. (cdc.gov)
  • Throughout their evolutionary development, humans have adapted to new environments, infectious agents and other health risks. (lu.se)
  • Because of persistent "adaptation gaps," current climate conditions continue to play a substantial role in shaping modern society, and future climate changes will likely have additional impact. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Overall, findings from this literature point to climate as an important influence on the historical evolution of the global economy, they should inform how we respond to modern climatic conditions, and they can guide how we predict the consequences of future climate changes. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • The key point is that we should expect such an adaptation to occur by small allele frequency shifts spread across many loci. (johnhawks.net)
  • Most importantly, adaptation could occur without dramatic allele frequency changes and without adaptive fixation events. (johnhawks.net)
  • 2 Urban environments, he says, are seen by many as an exciting new playground for research into evolution in action. (the-scientist.com)
  • Anatomical and functional characteristics of C4 adaptation. (elte.hu)
  • Anatomical and functional characteristics of CAM adaptation. (elte.hu)
  • Some even suggest that "we aren't designed to have happiness as our natural default" and so a state of depression is the evolutionary norm. (wikipedia.org)
  • Desert or rain: Standardisation of green advertising versus adaptation to the target audience's natural environment. (businessperspectives.org)
  • The evolution that has occurred in the business world since the advent of the Internet is not unlike the evolution that has occurred in the natural world. (bruceclay.com)
  • Their increased speed of movement, as compared to other life forms, very soon led to the evolution of a nervous system that integrated sensory organs with motor movements. (lu.se)
  • As noted by Castiglione, a key role for rhodopsin in cold adaptation was suggested by their previous research. (phys.org)
  • Here we present a brief description of the theoretical bases that drives our research in the evolutionary psychobiology of sports and illustrate preliminary data on the relationship between the 5HTTLPR genotype, salivary cortisol, temperament and competition. (springer.com)
  • Presently we are using molecular dating approaches, such as BEAST, to gain a better understanding of the how the molecular evolution of the avian β-keratins relates to the evolutionary origin of feathers. (sc.edu)
  • The amino acid sequence (31-32 residues) of the central filament region of β-keratins is highly conserved throughout all reptiles and birds suggesting that this domain has changed little in ~285 Ma of evolution (Fraser and Parry, 2010). (sc.edu)
  • These two lineages are separated by about 325 million years of evolution, but interestingly today birds and mammals show major similarities in their cognition. (lu.se)
  • To continue this line of study, Castiglione and his colleagues hope to investigate cold adaptation in the rhodopsins of other cold-dwelling fish lineages, including Arctic fishes. (phys.org)