6 results for “adaptation”

1. Life & Biology

   Evolution

   Every species alive, including ours, descends from earlier ones, shaped over millions of years by a

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   adapt. For plants that means getting pollen, which carries the male cells, from one flower to the female

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3. The Human Body

   The Skeleton and Bones

   adapt: heavy use, as in a tennis player's racket arm, thickens bone, while disuse, as in astronauts

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4. The Human Body

   Lungs and Breathing

   adapts over weeks by making more red blood cells, but above about 8,000 metres it cannot

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5. Animals

   Birds

   adapted to flight. A bird cannot carry developing young inside; it lays eggs, often in a nest

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6. The Human Body

   The Immune System

   adaptive immune system takes days to get going but is exquisitely specific. Its soldiers are lymphocytes

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