We employed a phylogenetic framework to identify patterns of life habit evolution in the marine bivalve family Pectinidae.
Specifically, we examined the number of independent origins of each life habit and distinguished between convergent and parallel trajectories of life habit evolution using ancestral state estimation.
In the past three decades, breakneck industrial development and economic growth have driven millions of Chinese from rural areas to cities, altering much about the Chinese way of life, especially in terms of their day-to-day eating habits — an evolution perhaps most pointedly crystallized in the average Chinese consumer's access to meat.
Like many others, Brantano has been hit hard by the change in consumers' shopping habits and the evolution of the UK retail environment.
The specialized ecological niche of these wasps explains the unique habits and adaptive evolution of Or2 genes.
I think this claim is unduly pessimistic, and stems from our acquired habits to explain evolution with a tree model.
The well-known habit model of Campbell and Cochrane (1999) specifies a process for the 'surplus ratio' the excess of consumption over habit, relative to consumption rather than an evolution for the habit stock.
Many pages of his book are strewn with profanity, fart jokes or comments about genitalia; you'll finish the book knowing more about his personal evolution in masturbatory habits than his courtship with his wife.
Twitter and Facebook have feeds which abstract away both the To: and Subject: fields of email and represent two very different networks but are nonetheless an evolution of the habits email created.
We focused on the correlated evolution of interstitial habits and vertebra number, because, despite being among the smallest gobies, Luciogobius species have vertebra numbers (i. e., 35 50) that far exceed those typically found in other Gobiidae (i. e., 26) [ 12].
The evolution of aquatic habits in pinniped carnivorans presents an ideal case study of the effect of ecological transitions on evolutionary processes because both terrestrial and aquatic groups are well represented in modern faunas.
