Sentence examples for evolution of color from inspiring English sources

The blue receptor is the quintessential element in the evolution of color vision, a wonderful new way to see things.

Although the blue receptors are greatly outnumbered, about 10 to 1, they are thought to have been the first step in the evolution of color vision.

If so, he says, the research is an important step toward understanding the evolution of color patterns.

Finally, our understanding of the evolution of color vision has benefited greatly from the use of comparative phylogenetic studies.

An historical aspect of evolution is presented when discussing the evolution of color vision in Old and New World monkeys.

This is interesting because it argues that something other than being able to see red traits drove the evolution of color vision possibly increased foraging efficiency.

The central assumption of this study is that, in birds, the evolution of color-producing metabolic pathways involves cooption, duplication, and linkage of compounds already present throughout tissues, their transport, and their integration with feather growth [ 24, 36], rather than evolution of these specialized pathways de novo in each lineage (but see [ 24, 37]).

A very different phylogenetic history was observed across the genomic region that controls red color pattern variation, reflecting the evolution of the color pattern alleles.

If being able to see red traits on conspecifics is what drove the evolution of red/green color vision, then red traits should have evolved at the same time as or earlier than red/green color vision.

So the prototype hominid too probably had fair skin under dark hair, said Dr. Nina Jablonski, an expert on the evolution of skin color at the California Academy of Sciences.

For scientists, the genes involved in the evolution of cats' color patterns have been equally well-camouflaged.