Sentence examples for a human generation from inspiring English sources

They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation.

Within a human generation, the meeting will hear, species such as the African elephant, tiger, gorilla and lion could be on the verge of extinction in the wild as a result of illegal hunting, habitat loss and the pet trade.

Evolutionary processes represent environmental adaptations over long time scales; evolution of crop genomes is not inducible within the relatively short time span of a human generation.

Given that 18 of the 61 non-stop genetic codons can be changed into stop codons by changing a single base, the total length of the two exons in each IGHV gene segment is ~355 bp, and a human generation is 25 years, about 21.7 million years is needed to change an IGHV gene segment in an ORF into a pseudogene segment.

Sharks have been around for about 400 million years, they are intelligent (they can be trained), and to lose them in the space of a human generation just because we wanted to assuage irrational fears and make luxury products is not something we can be proud of.

I and my colleagues everywhere have watched with alarm the astonishingly rapid transformation of the world's coral reefs, the crown jewels of the planet's encompassing ocean, over little more than a single human generation.

But a new project in biology, an ambitious effort to create a vast new electronic database of known species, should make it possible to discover the remaining 90percentt of species in far less than 250 years, perhaps only one-tenth that time, a single human generation.

Only 4% of Papua New Guinea's reefs are within officially designated marine protected areas [ 6], and while alternative conservation measures (such as traditional closures [ 7, 8]) do exist, there is a real potential for the faunal and structural composition of Papua New Guinea to be substantially altered in the timescale of a single human generation.

Acknowledging in a new paper that both the likelihood and timing of such a planetary "state shift" were uncertain, the scientists nonetheless described warning signs that it could arrive within a few human generations, if not sooner.

Given an average 20 years per human generation, the estimated T implies that the bottleneck occurred ∼66,000 years ago 666 kya).

Newly designed artifacts requiring an average life span of 25 years (one human generation), should fit the STW.