But the Bradley family's exponentially increasing travel distances illustrates not only advances in technology; it is indicative of how technology's march can itself allow for the greater dispersal of other knowledge.
At present, this work highlights our lack of knowledge about dispersal by microbial species, as there remain only a handful of genetic studies conducted at the appropriate resolution to assess population-level processes.
Although the concept of connectivity is widely used to comprehend disease dispersal, knowledge of the influences of landscape connectivity on Ov transmission is still rudimentary.
Indirect estimations of virus dispersal derived from knowledge of bird migrations could also provide complementary information related to the spread of avian influenza viruses.
There is a major lack of knowledge concerning the dispersal of airborne microorganisms emitted by composting plants and the consequent potential exposure of nearby residents.
Perhaps preeminent among the problems in this category have been difficulties in understanding the dispersal dynamics of the moth, lack of knowledge of the longevity of the moth, and a paucity of observations of peppered moths at rest in the wild during the day.
The lack of knowledge of its larval dispersal has limited the understanding of its population dynamics.
In ecology much attention has been paid towards seed dispersal of fleshy-fruited plants, however, knowledge is lacking about the long-term demographic consequences of variation in dispersal distance and fruit removal rate, particularly given the natural variability of the environment the organism lives in.
Since the oldest known examples of handaxe technology are known from eastern and southern Africa, it is a widely held assumption within palaeoanthropology that their appearance in more distant regions of the Old World is due to the dispersal of African populations who took knowledge of this technology with them [7], [11], [16], [17].
Spore production is critical to the dispersal of rusts and smuts; therefore, knowledge of the development and biology of spores is essential to understanding disease spread.
