Sentences with phrase «ancient life forms»

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

When you think of archaea — perhaps the most ancient life forms — extreme locations such as hot springs, alkaline lakes, and wastewater treatment plants likely come to mind.

Next time you catch a cold, consider this as your sinuses clog and your eyes burn: the viruses now tormenting you may be living fossils that carry molecular remnants of some of the most ancient life forms on the planet.

«Ancient life form discovered in remote Tasmanian valley.»

Not exact matches

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

Evangelical Catholicism is a liturgically centered form of Catholic life that embraces both the ancient traditions of Catholic worship and the authentic renewal of the liturgy according to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

Driven by her conviction that «the practices of living religious traditions have great wisdom to impart,» Dorothy Bass examines Christian practices in «both their ancient grounding and the fresh and vibrant forms they take today.»

It could be argued that the Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul was simply a refined and highly sophisticated version of that belief in an after - life which had been widespread in the ancient world in one form or another, and which Israel had come almost completely to abandon because of her psychosomatic view of the unity of the human individual.

Their intellectual attainment will be realized only when we admit fully, as the evidence demands, that Hebrew religion achieved freedom from an idolatry (to use a common term) similar to that of the rest of the ancient East — Yahweh was, through the earlier period of the nation's life in Palestine, worshiped in physical form, just as Marduk or Amon or any of the rest of them in their lands.

The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to live at the crossroads of the ancient world; it gathered up the best that that ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.

It is the problem that arises in its acutest form when life itself becomes a problem, when the goodness of existence is questionable, as it has been for most men at most times; when the ancient and universal suspicion arises that he is happiest who was never born and he next fortunate who died young.

But it was not simply an intellectual exercise, far less a form of entertainment, for ancient man knew himself to be involved in the processes of life and divine encounter which he saw all around him.

Both forms of image, the audible and the visible, played an important role in the religion of the peoples among whom ancient Israel lived.

In a celebrated essay published during World War II, he acknowledged that the classical form of Christian proclamation (kerygma) in which the living Christ was communicated was couched in terminology drawn from the now obsolete cosmology of the ancient world.»

A Christ appearing to our consciousness in his ancient and traditional form can not be the true and the living Christ, unless we are to deny the real and forward movement of the Incarnation.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

For ancient man the belief in some form of life after death was universal.

The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.

Harvard Magazine, November 2015 Life On a Tabletop: An ancient art form thrives at the Puppet Showplace Theater (Download PDF)

Your baby's name will be «inked» with them for life and according to ancient Chaldean Numerology... once the birth certificate is finalized, the name and birthday form the baby's spiritual master plan or blueprint for their life.

We enter an alcove, about the size of a squash court, and Cockell points out a honeycomb - like pattern on the rock salt walls, a possible haven for ancient forms of life.

Understanding the spatial distribution of chemical features preserved in ancient rocks is key to determining whether or not they were formed by life.

«It can help us correlate the changes in life forms with what we know about the Earth's ancient environments.

They aimed to extract ancient DNA from organisms trapped in amber to sequence extinct genes, recover dormant life forms and study protein evolution.

Palaeontologists can decipher how ancient organisms lived and interacted using taphonomy, the study of how fossils form.

The most ancient of these technologies created new forms of life.

Crowdfunding a genome Pryer worried that because no fern genome had ever been sequenced, what might be learned about these ancient plants — some of the oldest known vegetative of life forms on Earth — was highly limited.

Microorganisms are the most ancient, diverse and abundant life form on Earth.

He hopes to test samples of martian soil for ancient ribosomal RNA gene sequences that are conserved in all of Earth's known life forms.

If we simplify, the scientists did for these proteins what the scientists in Jurassic Park did for dinosaurs: bring ancient forms back to life, so that they can be studied to better understand how complexity in species comes about.

This was good enough for Plato, the 800 - pound gorilla of ancient Greek intellectual life, to include Beauty as one of his famous forms: those transcendent, invisible archetypes of which this reality is nothing but a set of blurry ramshackle imitations.

Compare this, he says, with the teachings of the ancient Greeks, who believed that knowledge of the natural world could and should form the basis of human values and morality: that the study of nature reveals how we should live.

«At the same time as this eclectic mix of ancient and modern - type marine mammals was living together, the marine mammal fauna in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean were already in the forms we find today.»

The ancient mushroom's strong resemblance to a living fungus called Marasmius hints that evolution has conserved the basic form of this mushroom for a very long time indeed and has led Hibbett to consider naming the fossil Archaeomarasmius.

Since micro-organisms represented most of life on Earth for most of the time that life has existed — billions of years, in fact — the most ancient and prevalent form of evolution probably wasn't Darwinian at all, Woese and Goldenfeld say.

This indicates that they may have an ancient origin, possibly as parasitic life - forms that then adapted to the «virus lifestyle.»

Sherwood Lollar's team is now scouring the water for ancient forms of life, perhaps unknown to science.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

New data support the proposition that two ancient forms of life merged to create the first complex cell.

Beyond the sea level rise itself, the ancient geologic and geographic changes probably led to a buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere and a change in ocean chemistry, allowing more complex life - forms to evolve, he said.

© Drawing by Joseph Smit, from «Extinct Monsters; a Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life»

Nitrogen, in the form of nitric oxide (one nitrogen atom and one oxygen atom), has been detected for the first time on the surface of Mars by a team of researchers using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover, adding to the growing speculation that life could have once flourished on ancient Mars.

«We are getting very close to being able to detect evidence of ancient life on Mars or, perhaps more importantly, the chemical building blocks on which life forms.»

Deep below the Antarctic ice, an ancient lake is teeming with life - forms that eat rock.

Cyanobacteria are one of the most ancient forms of life on Earth, and coupled with the universal nature of the circadian clock, this study indicates that its fundamental function is to help schedule different metabolic activities.

She explores the tradition of weaving and tapestry while playing with color, form, and texture to bring new life to an ancient art.

And, to make matters worse, the evil offspring has reverted to the ancient Chinese Callery pears which form impenetrable thorny thickets that choke the life out of pines, dogwoods, maples, redbuds, oaks, hickories, etc..

Tibetan Lycium Eleagnus (Tibetan Goji Berry) is the original source of this great energetic ancient Tibetica Lycium berry and these Tibetan Goji berries are the purest form of the Lycium berry and come from a compassionate culture that honors all life.