Sentence examples for subtle adaptations from inspiring English sources

But in truth what felt new in his work had as much to do with subtle adaptations of tradition as it did with pioneering a brand new kind of non-fiction.

"It is in these subtle adaptations to nerve cells, these compensations meant to handle increased serotonin, that the actual healing process lies," Steve Hyman, the director of the N.I.M.H., says of the SSRIs, "just as a pearl results from the adaptation of an oyster to the irritation caused by a grain of sand".

The observed association between maternal stress during pregnancy and child health may represent long-term consequences of subtle adaptations in multiple organ systems to the intrauterine environment (Bateson et al. 2004).

Lovely, allusive passages like that suggest a much better, more subtle adaptation nested inside this one.

(It's also a lot of fun to flip around!) Contemporary stars, however, wear a more subtle adaptation of the hairstyle by enhancing a bouncy blowout with Fawcett's signature wings or adding volume with a center part.

It was actually Angular Records founder Joe Daniel, the man who released the Klaxons' first few singles and helped engineer their success, who invented the term new rave, and even he believed it was just a subtle adaptation of what was going on in London then.

These differences may reflect subtle adaptation to environmental constraints affecting fertility.

Alternatively, there may have been an evolutionary event in one of their targets, such as the creation of a duplication of a target protein that then evolved to require a subtle adaptation in the cyclophilin that could not be accommodated.

Variation of the composition of the LukS subunit may potentially allow a subtle adaptation of S. aureus for host cell tropism or manifest loss of virulence factors as has been suggested for bacteria during their chronic colonization state (Zdziarski et al. 2010; McAdam et al. 2011).

D. valgum can kill prey up to 13 times its own size thanks to subtle body adaptations, explains Larsen, including its wedged head and hind legs adapted to hold the insect and drag it apart.

Selection models that use dN/dS ratios to detect selection are generally not sensitive enough to detect subtle molecular adaptations [ 46].