Sentence examples similar to underlying present day from inspiring English sources

Most of the students had a good knowledge of the evolution of species: 96.5% of them agreed with the existence of an evolutionary process underlying present-day animal and plant biodiversity and with the interaction between living organisms and the surrounding environment in the evolutionary process; 93.7% interpreted this process on the basis of events such as extinction and speciation.

Phylogenetic data are fundamental to the study of lineage diversification, not only because they provide a (albeit tentatively) dated record of the successive speciation events underlying present-day species diversity, but also because they identify the bounds and membership of the lineage under study.

The assumptions underlying present economic arrangements have altered little in centuries, despite the advent of democracy.

Climate change, says a state agency, is behind much of the current California drought, which is probably a factor underlying present and future 2014 wildfires.

The Guardian's investigation reveals that the concept of patient choice, which underlies present government policy as it did Labour's, is a hollow one.

The most prominent features were the Caledonian highlands of Norway, although a lowland attributed to the Fennoscandian Shield (rocks of Precambrian origin underlying the present-day Baltic Sea, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Finland) existed in the vicinity of Finland.

It affects the brain patterns underlying day to day anxiety, stress and irritability.

The selected genes, which affect skin color, hair texture and bone structure, may underlie the present-day differences in racial appearance.

Present day mechanisms underlying interactions (e.g., protein exchange) between the cytoplasm and nucleus (pores), and between the cytoplasm and mitochondria (TIM/TOM), are very different.

Using computer models of the terrain, satellite image overlays and flood modelling, the decisions underlying the location of Vinča settlement sites in the area around present day Belgrade are analysed.

Gray sees our faith in progress - "the Prozac of the thinking classes" - as the illusion that underlies the most egregiously mistaken political and social policies of the present day.