Sentence examples for process of extinction from inspiring English sources

Perhaps we are baffled by the process of extinction.

AM404 and other inhibitors of the anandamide transporter, such as the newly identified AM1172 (Fegley et al, 2004), may enhance the process of extinction through an alternate mechanism.

Therefore, major efforts are being made to identify ways to strengthen the process of extinction, for instance by delivering drugs that enhance the formation and consolidation of extinction memories4.

Making discreet mention of the unfolding Holocaust, the New York Times reviewer called the book "a distinguished piece of writing [and] to all intents and purposes, a memorial to that world, for generations injured and humiliated and now in the process of extinction".

An explanation based on distraction would also sit uneasily with the current view that the process of extinction is enhanced by directing more, not less, attention to the fear-inducing stimulus, because this increased attention reinforces the new connection between the trauma reminder and safety8.

Thus death can be a state (being dead), the process of extinction (dying), or one of three events that occur during the dying process.

The effect of modern invasive species on evolutionary processes of extinction and speciation, however, is less clear (Davis 2003).

On the other hand, the last results of the present work showed that NF-κB inhibition is part of the molecular processes of extinction induction.

However, reports indicating that activation of CB1, calcineurin and PI3K-dependent signalling pathways are selectively required for the extinction of fear memory [18], [19], [20], not only suggest that the molecular processes of extinction dissociate from those of consolidation but may more closely correlate with the plasticity processes of long-term depression or depotentiation [21], [22], [23].

F. ceranoides, but possibly low-dispersal species in general, appear to be unified to a large extent by historical, non-equilibrium processes of extinction and colonization, rather than by contemporary patterns of gene flow.

Most of this previous work primarily utilized allozyme markers at the finest scales of geographic resolution with the result that patterns of DNA sequence variation have not yet been studied at the geographic scale necessary to yield insights into the longer-term historical processes of extinction and recolonization.