Such features may be genetic in origin, although features that arise via developmental and/or physiological processes may also be termed adaptations if they enable survival (see Chapter 2 of this volume). The term genetic adaptation will refe...
Ideal for policymakers, scholars, environmentalists, and engaged citizens, Silent Earth challenges readers to envision a future where, even amidst biosphere decline, adaptation and innovation can pave the way for survival. Garry Rogers’ Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere ...
Asian tropical crops are an important part of the agricultural adaptations to humid climates of Central Africa. Despite this, each of these crops emerged from wild progenitors that are native to distinct habitats in tropical rainforest and monsoon climates stretching from peninsular Southeast Asia to ...
The aim of the research is to undertake a holistic and diachronic analysis of survival strategies under similar environmental parameters, in order to document the evolution of hominin subsistence behaviour and to gauge whether certain subsistence adaptations arose in direct response to distinct ...
The impacts of recent natural disasters highlight the hidden vulnerabilities in society’s food, energy, and water systems and the potential for clima
Lipid metabolism adaptations are reduced in human compared to murine Schwann cells following injury Sofia Meyer zu Reckendorf, Christine Brand, Maria T. Pedro, Jutta Hegler, Corinna S. Schilling, Raissa Lerner, Laura Bindila, Gregor Antoniadis & Bernd Knöll Nature Communications volu...
We argue that from an evolutionary perspective, these chronic diseases in later life could be explained by genetic adaptations to survive a harsh environment. In order to study the role of the innate immune response in life-history regulation in a pathogen-rich environment, we set out a study ...
Biological challenges, such as behavioral adaptations of vectors, resistance to insecticides and non-adoption of desired malaria prevention methods, remain the most important challenges since they have direct and indirect consequences that threaten the recent gains in malaria control [3, 8,9,10]. ...
Adaptations that are advantageous for one phenotype have costs for others. Evolutionary trade-offs often result when genes influence multiple phenotypes (pleiotropy) or when there is a limited resource that must be apportioned to different functions. Because of trade-offs, there is not an optimal ge...
behavioural and cultural changes may be even more crucial. For example, extensive use of warm weather clothing is thought to have emerged as humans migrated away from the warmer climates in Africa and into Europe24some 500–600 kya25. However, at least some important genetic adaptations to the...