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And if you take me and a chimpanzee and put us together on some lonely island, and we had to struggle for survival to see who survives better, I would definitely place my bet on the chimpanzee, not on myself.
However, not everything is lost; resveratrol, which is contained in red wine, has been shown to promote the survival of these new neurons.
First of all, does everyone have the basic needs of survival: food, water, shelter, safety?
And soon word went around about Doaa's survival, and a phone number was published on Facebook.
Well, word went around about her survival, too.
Information on the Internet that could ensure survival along dangerous routes is being censored, and the provision of such information is becoming increasingly criminalized.
Am I being effective in safeguarding their survival?
Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less, from each nesting cycle.
And so here I was saying, OK, I hear you, I understand what you're saying, but try also to understand what I'm saying because if you do not cut your emissions, then our survival is on the line.
It's about industry as opposed to the survival of a people.
In one way or another, bioluminescence improves a living thing's chances of survival.
Talk about survival advantage!
That glow stick you swing at a rave may help you find a mate, but how else can bioluminescence improve your survival?
Instead, random genetic mutations cause some giraffes to be born with longer necks, and that gives them a better chance to survive than the ones who weren't so lucky, which brings us to "survival of the fittest".
Secondly, survival is not how evolution occurs, reproduction is.
And the world if full of creatures like the male anglerfish, which is so small and ill-suited for survival at birth that it has to quickly find a mate before it dies.
So, a gene that makes an animal altruistically sacrifice itself to help the survival and future reproduction of its siblings or cousins, can become more widespread than one that is solely concerned with self-preservation.
Even the most extreme animals fight for survival, and only cold-adapted organisms survive there, including many types of algae, animals, bacteria, fungi, plants, and protista.
And because poisons are not the best thing for survival, our bodies evolved a direct but unpleasant way to get rid of what we ate that was causing the confusion.
Genes that result in a greater variety of immunities may give offspring a major survival advantage.
What can they teach us about evolution and survival?
But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past.
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward-looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
The fetus inherits genes from its father, as well, and those genes can promote their own survival by extracting more than their fair share of resources from the mother.
So Hospital B is the better choice for patients who arrive at hospital in poor health, with a survival rate of 52.5%.
Strangely enough, Hospital B is still the better choice, with a survival rate of over 98%.
So how can Hospital A have a better overall survival rate if Hospital B has better survival rates for patients in each of the two groups?
One study in the UK appeared to show that smokers had a higher survival rate than nonsmokers over a twenty-year time period.
While these functions are essential to our survival, we need to compensate for the fluid loss.
It's a matter of survival.
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