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All vertebrates do, and each time a fish species starts to adapt to this dark, cold, cave environment, over many, many generations, they lose their eyes and their eyesight until the end up like an eyeless cavefish like this one here.
We need to ensure that older generations who maybe can't travel get access to the Internet.
The more I've seen and learned about our respective generations, the more I realize that we often don't trust each other enough to actually share our respective wisdom.
This is a very important question, because for the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time, unintentionally.
We have five generations in the workplace today, and we can operate like separate isolationist countries, or we can actually start to find a way to bridge these generational borders.
Cluster bombs are a world problem, as this munition keeps destroying and hurting whole communities for generations to come.
During the First Intifada, whole sectors of the Palestinian civilian population mobilized, cutting across generations, factions and class lines.
If we do not lift up the women who played critical roles in these struggles, we fail to offer up role models to future generations.
So I ask these questions by way of a few generations of struggle.
Two-thirds of those who are living with multiple generations under one roof say it's improved their relationships.
But what ended up happening is that they exposed their kids to a lot of the childhood trauma that had gone back many generations.
It's only within the last six, seven, or eight generations that we have actually realized that we are a species.
When a bird species doesn’t face specific pressures to fly, it can stop flying in as quickly as a few generations.
Americanization and globalization for the last several generations have basically been the same thing.
And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases, or we can change the environment, and change the expression of those genes in the epigenome and pass that on to the next generations.
You know, I came from four generations of teachers, and my grandma has always told me, "Hey Jia, you can do anything you want, but it'd be great if you became a teacher."
And so despite this being their home and their whole extended family's home, and this area being their family's home for generations, they decided because of eugenics that they had to leave.
If we focus on the simple goal of properly nourishing ourselves, we could see a world that is more stable and secure; we could dramatically improve our economic productivity; we could transform our health care and we could go a long way in ensuring that the Earth can provide for generations to come.
It's like skipping through several technology generations in just one step.
So that's about 12 to 16 generations.
Its warming potential is 24,000 times that of carbon dioxide, and it has that longevity of 12 to 16 generations.
With the work that my team has already done on separation of nanoscale biomarkers for rapid, early-stage cancer diagnostics, I am optimistic that within the next decade, this type of technology will be available, helping protect our friends, our family and future generations.
And during pregnancy, that buffer can be an incredible tool towards shifting the impact of racism for generations to come.
I'm convinced that if we do that in the humble but extremely important realm of language, we'll be leaving a better future to the next generations.
So we found this tiny vein in a huge quarry in Portugal with this beautiful stone, which the owner had kept for seven generations in his family, waiting for the right project, if you can believe it.
Financial illiteracy is a disease that has crippled minorities and the lower class in our society for generations and generations, and we should be furious about that.
Over the course of generations, humans living at the Sun-saturated latitudes in Africa adapted to have a higher melanin production threshold and more eumelanin, giving skin a darker tone.
This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations.
Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened.
In providing specific plot content for instrumental music, Vivaldi was generations ahead of his time.
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