Sentences with phrase «as a species become»

As a species become more threatened and harder to find, its price on the black market increases dramatically.

Biodiversity diminishes as some species become extinct due either to human - caused climate change or to related human activities such as habitat destruction or toxic pollution.

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Musk's long - term vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet as «a nice place to be» — and allow humans to become a multi-planetary species.

«Musk's long - term vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet as «a nice place to be» — and allow humans to become a multiplanetary species.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

In this «Southernness» lies an anthropology beyond both the American and, at least since Descartes, the European species of anthropology» a recognition of the wayfarer as created intellect lost and wandering in the desert until he becomes oriented to reality through such signs as may rest their limited significance in specific time and place, as that complex is governed by the Word.

By denying our baser instincts we have become very enlightened as a species, have we not?

Religion as a «scaffolding» to help us become a confident, considerate, well - rounded species sounds great.

We treat racism as though it is the contained characteristic of a specific species of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.

In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growth.

For the former principle establishes that each unit - product is the outcome of two different species of creative process: one of efficient, the other of final, causation (PB 228, 320); whereas the latter principle merely emphasizes that the teleological process is immanent to the entity, i.e., that it is the partly determinate entity as in the process of becoming completely determinate through the realization of its subjective aim (PR 135, 423, 130, 373, 390, 524).

You seem to think that as long as it is still a bird, it hasn't become a new species.

In the final theory, becoming is not a species of being, for being is first produced by becoming (7) 14 Yet when the first categoreal condition was formulated (R), becoming was conceived as a kind of being.

Right away on receiving the information about natural selection as factor in the becoming of animal species Peirce said to Chauncey Wright that he'd have to give up his determinism; animal habits are not absolute regularities.

A similar impulse of group formation seems to have become operative along each zoological branch, but at very different ages of the earth; so far as we are able to judge, the phenomenon has occurred in each case at a predetermined age of the species under review.

As Kurt Vonnegut says one way or another in all of his strange and wonderful novels (perhaps cynically or perhaps seriously): purposeless things are abhorent to the human species; and if the human species suspects that it is itself purposeless, it becomes conspicuously suicidal.

We see that other species are becoming extinct at a rapid rate, 10 and we find no reason that extinction should not be our fate as well.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

Many, if not most, species have become extinct in the course of this evolutionary advance, and there is good reason to anticipate that this may be our fate as well.

From the time the species Homo sapiens consolidated itself to become the only survivor of the various hominoid species that had evolved as a result of divergence, humankind slowly spread over the earth, moving into previously uninhabited areas.

As part of the February 2014 conference, «Unlearning Violence: Evidence and Policies for Early Childhood Development and Peace,» Daniel Dennett and Steven Pinker addressed the question, «can we become a more peaceful species?»

Through the centuries life has become an increasingly heavy burden for Man the Species, just as it does for Man the Individual as the years pass.

The Times reported that, «Churchill became interested in science as an army office in India when his mom shipped him Darwin's On the Origin of Species, among other books.»

As a cooperative group, we have become the dominant species in nearly every eco-system on Earth.

Ultimately our species will become extinct, and as hard the realization of that outcome might be for most people it is inevitable.

As we grow as a species, we realize that we can fulfill that role ourselves, and become that which we once attributed to the supernaturaAs we grow as a species, we realize that we can fulfill that role ourselves, and become that which we once attributed to the supernaturaas a species, we realize that we can fulfill that role ourselves, and become that which we once attributed to the supernatural.

But just as it is possible for some to believe that counterculturists are not quite on the verge of becoming an endangered species, so it is still possible for others to believe that C. P. Snow was mainly right.

As some species of fish are decimated and become unavailable, others are harvested.

This conclusion was strong in my mind about the time, as far as I can remember, when I wrote the Origin of Species; and it is since that time that it has very gradually with many fluctuations become weaker.»

Organic agriculture is an important source of income for island residents, especially as fisheries become depleted, and organic crops help reduce the need to import so much fresh food and minimize the introduction of invasive species that arrive in these shipments.

In areas where coffee farms have been converted to sun coffee, Inga - shaded farms have become important refuges for orioles as well as other species.

-RSB- «Those wild boars that I have seen brought in by the negroes, or the parts of which I have occasionally received as presents, do not in, colour or in size, resemble those in Europe: they rather appear to be the progeny of swine that have strayed into the woods; and which, from having been once tame, partake of the habits of, and now become, wild, but are not, rigidly speaking, of the same species.

[According to William Beckford, author of the gothic novel, Vathek] «Those wild boars that I have seen brought in by the negroes, or the parts of which I have occasionally received as presents, do not in, colour or in size, resemble those in Europe: they rather appear to be the progeny of swine that have strayed into the woods; and which, from having been once tame, partake of the habits of, and now become, wild, but are not, rigidly speaking, of the same species.

During the flooding period, the network of irrigation canals and the organic paddy fields close to lagoons become a crucial link between marine and river environments, and provide an important habitat for many species of fish and amphibians, such as damnbusia (Gambusia holbrooki), carp (Cyprinus carpio), fartet (Lebias ibera - an endemic fish of the western Mediterranean Sea), coruna frog (Rana perezi), and others.

Maybe not — we can't know, with the lack of research into this matter — but since we've had 100 or so years to adapt as a species to this new sleep pattern, we can and should ask how successful it's been for us: Has sleeping become more healthy over this time?

He returned 365 days later as a world record - holder, becoming the first human to see more than half the planet's 10,000 - plus bird species in one year.

As that material drifted toward Sampsons Island and accreted, the number of pairs of all species declined again, and productivity also declined as the smaller nesting areas became more vulnerable to predators and storm overwasAs that material drifted toward Sampsons Island and accreted, the number of pairs of all species declined again, and productivity also declined as the smaller nesting areas became more vulnerable to predators and storm overwasas the smaller nesting areas became more vulnerable to predators and storm overwash.

As a responsible steward of the animals in its care, Shedd is committed to conserving species and ecosystems through research that increases knowledge, informs policy, enhances livelihoods and inspires the public to become environmental stewards.

As ecosystems of the human environment change during development, pregnancy, or with changing diets, which bacterial species remain or how these microbial species function may shift is slowly becoming understood.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

Invasive plant species have become dominant in some sections, parking is limited, the trails do not meet Mass Audubon's current standards for accessibility, and the town - maintained storm water drainage system does not always function as designed.

This is the story of the famous Lonesome George, a giant tortoise who was the last of his species, lived to be one hundred years old, and became known as the rarest creature in the world.

Comparative genomics research like this has only been possible in the past couple of years as the genome sequences of snakes and other species have become available.

Human females can live a normal life span with the disease, as can female mice — the latter species also frequently becomes obese.

A few environmental watchdog groups voiced concern that artificial life might somehow escape the laboratory and become an invasive species or pose dangers as yet unforeseen, and President Obama asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to explore the implications of Venter's work.

As this resource becomes less permanent due to warming, wolverine populations may become physically and genetically isolated — leading to decline of the species

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.

As the species» population grows and its energy harvesting intensifies, for example, the composition of the planet and its atmosphere may become altered for long timescales.

Let that stand as the day humans became an interstellar species.