Sentence examples for adaptation of humans from inspiring English sources

"These experiments don't bear on the question of whether speech is a special adaptation of humans," Trout insists, noting that the human subjects had to pull matching words out of their vocabularies of about 30,000 words, whereas Panzee had a much smaller vocabulary to search through.

Generating complex sounds utilizing the laryngeal sphincter as a vibratory source is a unique evolutionary adaptation of humans [ 51].

Transcription factor binding sites and other cis-regulatory sequences can be particularly important in the evolutionary adaptation of humans.

Signals of recent positive selection provide information about the adaptation of humans to local conditions and have been implicated in phenotypic variations [ 34].

Many examples of the genetic adaptation of humans to diet have been described, including milk consumption, starch-rich diets, and bitter-taste perception (Bersaglieri et al. 2004; Wooding et al. 2004, 2006; Balaresque et al. 2007; Perry et al. 2007; Tishkoff et al. 2007; Patin and Quintana-Murci 2008).

For example, the GO has been used to look into the function of genes that may contribute to adaptation of humans to high altitudes as well as to find correlations between gene function and diseases or disorders such as cancer or autism [ 13- 16].

Climatic adaptation, in physical anthropology, the genetic adaptation of human beings to different environmental conditions.

Applying this theory to our own species, Wilson argued that religion is an adaptation of human groups in the same way that the heart is an adaptation of human individuals.

Chris Beckett won the 2013 Arthur C Clarke award for his novel Dark Eden, about the survival and adaptation of human colonists on a world without light.

Contemporary scientists hold that human physical variations, especially in those traits that are normally used to classify people racially skin colour, hair texture, facial features, and to some extent bodily structure must be understood in terms of evolutionary processes and the long-range adaptation of human groups to differing environments.

Integrated Flood Management (IFM) aims to harmonize human activities and flood risks through appropriate interventions to modify the water regime, and adaptation of human behavior thereby reducing such risks.