"It could be a long evolutionary shift from a rental market to a housing market, " Firoved says.
Though RNA editing has been observed before, in animals ranging from humans to nematode worms, this is the first time an edit has been tied to a clear evolutionary difference caused by a feature of the environment in this case ambient temperature.
It is based on a piece of evolutionary theory called the founder effect, which shows how the isolation of small populations from larger ones can accelerate evolutionary change, because a small population's average characteristics are likely to differ from those of the larger group from which it is drawn.
"Because mutations start occurring at regular intervals in these genes as soon as a new species evolves - like the ticking of a clock - we can use them to trace the evolutionary history of a species back to its time of origin, " said Dr Hedges.
Positioning it as a less threatening, more evolutionary, progression is a winning strategy for brands truly looking to connect with IT audiences and drive increased adoption.
"4K is a technology that is an evolutionary step that - maybe a long way down the line - will be the successor to today's HD televisions, " said Daniel Simmons from IHS Screen Digest.
Our attachment system is the evolutionary byproduct of a process humans developed to stay alive, Dr. Shorey says.
Computers represented a evolutionary leap over typewriters and Dictaphones, creating an instant market.
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You can guess that evolutionary psychologists have a reason for this too.
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From an evolutionary viewpoint, a function can be assigned to a DNA sequence if and only if it is possible to destroy it.
The protection they receive from farmers is, in evolutionary terms, a quid pro quo for the fact that their physiologies are modified to serve human ends, rather than being sharpened for the cut and thrust of life in the wild.
In a short and sweet post at Psychology Today, Scott James, author of An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics (and a friend of mine from grad school) offers a summary of the contemporary moral nativist view inspired by Noam Chomsky and John Rawls.
The latest version of Google's mobile OS makes a number of evolutionary improvements to its already impressive repertoire -- including a new quick settings menu that can be accessed from the notification pull down and support for multiple user profiles.
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For example, nearly all companies MUST have a large amount of evolutionary ideas in their portfolio because it is a natural result of consistently listening and responding to your consumer.
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The origin of writing and reading cannot be understood as a direct evolutionary adaptation.
In fact, there is a complex evolutionary interplay between host defenses and parasite adaptations.
Very few of us stop to consider that thinking itself has been through a long evolutionary process.
Other species apparently reckon that nasty tastes are a powerful evolutionary signal that something may be poisonous.
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The new rules could affect foreign firms in a more evolutionary way.
Some of these evolving companies can be classified as truly transformative, if they take a revolutionary approach rather than a merely evolutionary one.
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So, not only is SM1 protective, it has a clear evolutionary advantage over the wild type, at least in the cosseted conditions of the laboratory.
Professor Spector said there was also a possible evolutionary advantage in people carrying genes that made them sleepy and alert at different times to their peers.
The progeny of interbreeding start with a big evolutionary disadvantage.
Nagel has, I think, been led astray by a big survivorship bias: the evolutionary lineage that led to us always found a viable mutation, ergo one must, it seems, always be available.
List all the studies you kind find in order to fulfill your agenda, but are we not in the middle of a an evolutionary conflict on balancing gender roles, both in the home and at work.
The Maryland researchers concluded that while many fish launch out of the water into the air to capture prey, migrate, or avoid predators, the guppies have a different evolutionary motive: to reach all the available habitat in Trinidad's mountain streams.
Two recent books take very different approaches to the narrative of bacteria and viruses, prions and protists that humanity has known for centuries and the brand new bugs that, by opportunistic accident, hop between species and start a new evolutionary tussle.
Mr Clegg said he wanted guarantees that there would not be "back-door privatisation" of the NHS, and the Lib Dems would not allow the bill to be passed "unless I personally am satisfied that what these changes do is an evolutionary change, not a disruptive revolution".
Unravelling all that, says Don Church, might tell us something about the origins and spread of chytrid - and there is so much diversity among Japanese chytrid strains that the country is now being touted as a possible origin, as diversity often implies a long evolutionary timeframe.
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