However, if students grasp just how much environments can change due to coevolutionary and ecological processes even on short timescales they are more likely to understand that natural selection acts in relation to an organism's current circumstances.
Coupled with the need to create and develop sustainable urban developments, it is essential to understand how much the environment as well as its surrounding morphology affects the built environment.
It's clear that there is a natural environment within which people live, and there are probable limits to how much this environment may be stressed or changed.
How much is environment and life choices and habits, vs. how much is genetic and may be influenced only through genomic assessments and interventions?
But, for now, the best that I can do is encourage young women — like my figurative little sister — to hold onto their sense of self, no matter how much their environment tries to change that.
Test whether you're dreaming by how much the environment reacts to your thoughts.
As an experiment, Maker's Mark swapped barrels with a Scottish distiller to see how much the environments of the two places affected the whisky's maturation.
A new report commissioned by Defra, called the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, has tried to do just that, estimating how much the natural environment contributes to the British economy.
The risk is that the cost of damaging the landscape is ignored because it is not ascribed a monetary value, says Steve Albon, co-author of a government-commissioned report on how much the natural environment contributes to Britain's economy.
Costs and benefits also play a big role in the wide-ranging struggle over how much of the environment should be sacrificed to logging, home construction, highways and the like.
