Sentences with phrase «animal forms at»

To illustrate the fossil problem, here is what a particularly vigorous advocate of Darwinism, Oxford Zoology Professor (and popular author) Richard Dawkins, says in The Blind Watchmaker about the «Cambrian explosion,» i.e., the apparently sudden appearance of the major animal forms at the beginning of the Cambrian era:

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«[It's] one of if not the worst forms of animal cruelty within industrial animal production,» says Josh Balk, senior director of food policy at HSUS.

National animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other than a form of rescue.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

However, he does hold that the goal towards which physical processes are directing the behavior of an animal finds conscious expression at the level of spirit by its intuition of the goal's essence under the form of the good.

No, said Darwin, he evolved from the most simple form of life through the various stages of lower animal life, through the mammal form, until he arrived at where he now stands — on two feet!

The empirical appearances of outward shape and form and of biological mode of life may show such very gradual transitions between animal and man, that in this respect it may perhaps not be possible at all to succeed in indicating concretely and unmistakably, where the dividing line runs between animal and man.

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

Moreover, at the rate it is going, we can already foresee the day when it will have abolished or domesticated all other forms of animal and even plant life.

In Darwin's day many liked to think that God had formed the eye at the time of animal creation in a way parallel to that of an engineer making an optical instrument.

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.

Rebirth may be into the order of human beings once again; or according to the classical form of the doctrine, transmigration into the animal realm; or into a higher order of heavens; and at the highest, the delivered self can escape from the round of rebirth to rest within the reality of eternity.

Animal life, for example, appears as a decisive advance in a cosmic process of actualisation of the real potencies inherent in matter at lower levels: an advance, however, which is not simply reducible to the tendencies (ultimately thermodynamic: form is like fire, which «tends towards the limit», says Aristotle) that gave rise to it.

Public action can take on many forms, including boycotting Nestlé brands, helping to spread the word about Nestlé's unethical business practices, and putting pressure on the government to pass legislation that would prevent Nestlé from doing things that put people, animals and the environment at risk.

When I look at them and watch how they move, I see their form in stitches as a pattern in my mind, with decreases and increases becoming the shape of the animal that I am observing.

Babies at this stage become fascinated by small toys in the form of animals and cars, so make sure you give them a wide selection which are age - appropriate.

Fake pastor fake professor yemi osinbajo and his wife fake pastoress Dolapo osinbajo are the owl and the pussycat of the animal kingdom called Nigeria, a dubious pair of wizard and witch occultic at night but forming holy in the daytime.

The NYPD's new animal cruelty unit, which formed earlier this year, is looking at the connection between domestic violence and the abuse of animals, in the hope of rooting out both problems in the city.

«When a new substance forms during a chemical reaction, many students think that the atoms and molecules have actually changed into something new, whereas they simply rearranged, that the mass increase of plants is due to minerals in the soil, or that cell division alone accounts for animal growth,» said Cari Herrmann Abell, a senior research associate at Project 2061.

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

In «Darwin drift», a high - pressure zone forms at the front of each swimming animal, leaving an area of lower pressure behind, which draws in adjacent water.

Premaxillae are the small bones at the tip of the upper jaw of most animals, but are enlarged and fused to form the beak of birds.

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look aroundAt least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look aroundat the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

Cell assays and animal studies suggest that drugs that restore p53's activity work with not just one mutant form of the protein, but many, says Alan Fersht, a chemist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Levels of CO2 also shift seasonally, changing as leaves drop in fall and ice forms in winter or as animals go through their life cycles, and even daily, rising at night due to temperature changes and algae's inability to photosynthesize at night.

But the ancestral forms of this disease used different insect vectors and different malarial strains, and may literally have helped shape animal survival and evolution on Earth, according to George Poinar, Jr., a researcher in the College of Science at Oregon State University.

And the outcomes «may alter the view of hybridization in animals as some form of mistake,» comments Loeske Kruuk of the University of Edinburgh, «because it is now clear that we can not take the consequences for fitness at face value.»

The ability to manufacture proteins, which at present are very difficult or even impossible to produce, in large quantities and in their native form, rapidly and inexpensively, will have an enormous impact in all sectors of biology (biotechnology, nutrition, pharmacy, human and animal health care, and, in the near future, nanotechnology).

James Valentine of the University of California at Berkeley suggests that the key to the Cambrian explosion may have been the evolution of a basic genetic programme to control animal development, which rapidly mutated to give all the different animal forms.

«Both studies provide powerful evidence for forms of cooperation in our closest relatives that have been difficult to demonstrate in other animals besides humans,» says Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved with the research.

«With this very early impact on the heart, you end up with an animal that just can't pump blood through its body as well, which means it can't swim as well to capture food, form schools, or migrate,» said Mark Carls, toxicologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

The other, a live but weakened form of the virus that was developed at UTMB, is being tested in animals.

Picking up on recent discoveries that the Notch - modifying enzyme known as Rumi is necessary for animal development and that various mutants of Rumi are linked with a form of skin hyperpigmentation known as Dowling - Degos disease (made by scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Bonn, Germany), Li's group became focused on this particular enzyme.

The dogs, in contrast, formed strict, linear dominance hierarchies that demand obedience from subordinates, Range explained last week at the Animal Behavior Society meeting at Princeton University.

BSE isn't contagious at all, but it always kills the animals that get it as well as humans too — a rare occurrence — in the form of new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease.

Passive robots in the form of sedentary animals may be less flashy than a bird skin stretched over a robotic frame, but they can be just as good at keeping tabs on their environment — and significantly less nasty.

Prints formed in clay (like those at the Dinosaur Discovery Site) are preserved best, while those in drier sand often appear enlarged, giving the illusion of a bigger animal with shorter strides.

«Looking at the evolutionary tree, and knowing something about evolution and Earth history, we predicted there would be a The 4 - to 9 - foot - long creature had fins, which held limblike bones forming a shoulder, elbow, and wrist that could do a push - up; broad ribs and scales; and a neck that allowed the animal to swivel its head.

Neurons concentrated at the front of the animal, forming something more and more like a brain.

Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland have uncovered a new form of secret light communication used by marine animals.

What has not been clear, says Anders Garm at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, is whether these cells simply tell the starfish about ambient light levels, as happens in more primitive light - sensitive animals, or whether they actually form spatial images.

And so now there are something like 4,400 on Earth which is at least as far as we can see completely unique, and there was a period which Dr. Hazen called red earth about a couple of billion, two billion years ago, when life first gets going when there's some, you know, early forms of life and about 2,000 or so minerals arise [there], microorganisms make sheaths of minerals like calcium carbonate that we now see in animals with shells.

In a study of mice, scientists from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA discovered that boosting the animals» cholesterol levels spurred intestinal stem cells to divide more quickly, enabling tumors to form 100 times faster.

However, «it is premature at this stage to abruptly put a stop to animal testing because too many scientific advances are dependent on this form of testing,» Georgieva told reporters.

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have designed a novel protein - sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model, stimulated an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around HIV.

When academic allergist Sanjiv Sur at the University of Texas in Galveston and colleagues exposed mice to ragweed pollen, they noticed the animals produced highly - reactive forms of oxygen in their lungs after 15 minutes.

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).

The average safe site contained all areas formed by overlapping of at least five animals.

Using a molecule designed to overcome a roadblock formed by a common type of genetic flaw, researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have made progress towards novel molecular treatments for Friedreich's ataxia — a rare but fatal disorder — in the laboratory dish and in animals.