Sentences with phrase «animal forms of»

Filled with 200 bunk beds scattered with books, the animal forms of gargantuan sculptures, a massive LED screen playing edited extracts from science - fiction and experimental films, and piercing lights that suggest some unseen surveillance, the Turbine Hall has taken on the appearance of an epic film set.

This includes plant - derived magnesium and silica as well as animal forms of saturated fat and the long - chain omega - 3 fatty acids EPA & DHA.

Furthermore, by being in groups (herds, colonies) through the gregarious instincts, the animal is better able to preserve its species compared to infra - animal forms of life.

Retinol, the animal form of vitamin A, is a yellow fat - soluble, antioxidant vitamin important in vision and bone growth.

It is possible that the vitamin D concentrations of the milk would have been higher if the mothers had been consuming only vitamin D3, the animal form of vitamin D. Vitamin D is carried into breast milk attached to the vitamin D - binding protein; 21 since one study found vitamin D2 to have a lower affinity than vitamin D3 for the vitamin D - binding protein, it may be that vitamin D3 is much more effective than vitamin D2 at raising the levels of vitamin D in milk.

The establishment view is as follows: the animal form of vitamin A is toxic and also interferes with vitamin D metabolism, so we should avoid foods rich in vitamin A, like liver, organ meats and cod liver oil; we can get all the vitamin A we need from the conversion of carotenes in plants; it is impossible to obtain adequate vitamin D from food, so we need to take vitamin D supplements.

Goose liver paté is loaded with the animal form of vitamin K2 known as MK - 4.

These signs of cognitive decline might prompt you to wonder: do dogs and cats get dementia or an animal form of Alzheimer's disease?

Female dogs and cats who have gone through their first heat are 16 times more likely to develop the animal form of breast cancer than animals who are spayed before their first heat.

Nicholas Dodman, an animal behaviorist and veterinarian at Tufts University in Medford, MA, says a drug currently used to treat dementia in humans is helpful in treating an animal form of obsessive - compulsive disorder, but so far no pharmaceutical company has opted to develop it for the pet market.

In animals this form of dwarfism ranges from mildly disabling to crippling or lethal (stillborn).

Not exact matches

He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

For animals, intermittent stress is the bulk of what they experience, in the form of physical threats in their immediate environment.

Animal - free gelatin, which in its regular form is derived from collagen — a material that is typically made from the bones, skin, and tissues of cows and pigs.

Corals are animals, the translucent creatures that form huge colonies and create a variety of structures.

«[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.

I always feel like there's something else out there that's telling you — whether it's animal instincts or whether it's just maybe a heightened form of common sense — I really learned to listen to myself, and to not be scared to speak up as well.

Mobile is not only a different animal than traditional forms of marketing, but also than it's older digital sibling.

Deregulation and / or the awakening of «animal spirits» in the form of a sustained upsurge in consumer and business confidence could give an additional boost.

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.

Human beings are society animals; we are tribal, fundamentally speaking, and it is this which forms the basis of human morality.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human - animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

Here's the rest of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

Of course the sequencing is not quite right, because the poem was written / inspired (take your pick) before science did its work.But the intuitive observer could see a clear evolution form plants to animals to human life, with continuities and differentiations.

There are many forms of Jellyfish, and various other animals, that have no brain... by your thinking you can eat them.

Even vegetarians (which means lousy hunter) eat billions of life forms and kill them when they eat, so morality for killing animals to eat, ridiculous.

Can we avoid supporting those forms of factory farming that cause extreme suffering to animals?

So it is deliciously ironic that on this very public and glorious day of Jesus» ministry, a day when he will be welcomed into Jerusalem with joyous hosannas, they find themselves engaged in a most unromantic form of ministry, mucking around a stable, looking suspiciously like horse thieves, and trying to wrestle an untamed and no doubt balky animal toward the olive groves.

Then came the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to a huge diversity of life forms: most types of modern animals appear in the fossil record from this era.

To further most animal species, except some of the more basic forms of life and the earliest ones, sexual intercourse between male and female is needed.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

The irrational form of belief is found in animals as instinct.

I guess pointing out that, based on the bible that these people supposedly read and follow, the jesus these people worship was a thief and liar and condoned slavery, brutality to and murder of children, animals, other tribes, and people of other beliefs is «bad form» is certain circles.

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air...»

I'm curious to know why you have ruled out the possibility that Nature might select for optimum forms of eyesight in completely different animals.

Humans are animals... we are as much a part of nature as any other earth bound life form.

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

There is one God who is present in all the forms of this world — all humans, animals, trees etc..

Such a gift might spring from varied motives — gratitude, homage, or the desire to curry favor — but obviously in the background of the practice of animal sacrifice was the idea that God liked this form of gift and profited by it.

A thin layer of living cells spread out in two dimensions over the globe could accomplish little; but concentrated in three - dimensional forms, cells constitute the vast and varied world of plant and animal life.

The Bible itself placed men and animals in the same category by describing their Creation on the same day and thus distinguishing them as a class from all other created forms of life.

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.

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

Animals are characterized by an even deeper form of «awareness.»

We also know that other animals with brains that are structured similarly display similar forms of consciousness and self - awareness.