Sentence examples for ancient strategy from inspiring English sources
The basic theory is that all or most species have an ancient strategy for riding out famines: switch resources from reproduction to tissue maintenance.
Flu vaccines are still manufactured by an "ancient strategy" that involves injecting eggs with virus, he complained, even as other vaccines rely on more sophisticated methods.
This is an ancient strategy, Dr. Guarente believes, intended to let an organism live through famines and postpone breeding until good times return.
Dietary restriction seems to set off an ancient strategy written into all animal genomes, that when food is scarce resources should be switched to tissue maintenance from breeding.
A similar mechanism exists in simpler forms of life, which has led biologists to believe that they are looking at an ancient strategy, formed early in evolution and built into all animals.
Shibumi is about Nicholai Hel – an international jet-set assassin with an incisive mind, a master of the ancient strategy game Go, a lover and a fighter, who could out-spy Bond and Jason Bourne together.
Mr Pinker speculates that we have become more pacific through the gradual cultural refinement of rational capacities that have guided us away from ancient strategies of violence.
In September, when the snow starts to bury Grand Teton National Park, pronghorn antelope follow an ancient exit strategy.
EXPERTS in conflict, says "The Art of War", an ancient Chinese strategy manual, "release the attack like a lightning bolt from above the nine-layered heavens".
Many other species have much the same reflex, and some biologists believe this is an ancient survival strategy, in which during times of famine the body's reserves are switched to tissue maintenance, with the hope of riding out the bad times and breeding later.
This year AlphaGo, a computer designed by Google's DeepMind unit, beat the world champion at the ancient Chinese strategy game Go, deemed supremely challenging for artificial intelligence because the near-infinite range of moves was thought to be navigable only by intuition.
