Sentence examples for ancient mechanisms from inspiring English sources

The "orgy of self-indulgence" that spread in our land of no-money-down mortgages, he wrote in his 2005 book, "American Mania: When More Is Not Enough," has disturbed the "ancient mechanisms that sustain our physical and mental balance".

We anthropologists have been teaching, speaking and writing his message for years: evolutionary psychology's ceding of power to ancient mechanisms of natural selection, coupled with its failure to understand the plasticity of the brain and the creative force of human social interaction, dooms its theories.

"It's interesting to see how the modern environment makes us perceive things according to these ancient mechanisms," she says.

Considering the close evolutionary relationship among SMYD1, SMYD2 and SMYD3 genes, we hypothesize that they may share some common ancient mechanisms.

Hyperthermophilic archaea are deeply rooted in the rDNA gene based tree of life and as such may harbor ancient mechanisms that shed light on the origin and evolution of the oxidative stress response in contemporary life.

Being an evolutionarily old unpaired appendage, it offers a unique opportunity to investigate ancient mechanisms involved in epithelial patterning.

But if they really embody an ancient mechanism for fortifying the body against disease, then all that is needed is a safe drug that tricks the SIRT genes into thinking feast is famine.

The Whitehead team's article, also published in the current Cell, indicates that in mice and people, just as in fruit flies, the same ancient mechanism is used to make the crucial decisions that determine cell fate.

What is not clear is whether the endocannabinoid reward is an ancient mechanism that has been lost on branches of the mammalian tree that do not need it, or is something that evolves quickly in species which become active.

Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant William Heinemannn) Marchant tells for the first time the story of the 100-year quest to understand an ancient mechanism discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean among the wreckage of an Ancient Greek shipwreck.

Autophagy is a hot topic in medicine, as biologists have come to realise that it helps protect the body from all kinds of ailments.The virtues of recyclingAutophagy is an ancient mechanism, shared by all eukaryotic organisms (those which, unlike bacteria, keep their DNA in a membrane-bound nucleus within their cells).