Sentences with phrase «animal history from»

Accountable and detail oriented with hands - on experience in obtaining appropriate information and animal history from clients and maintain appropriate and complete medical charts.

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In the history of a living society, its more vivid manifestations wander to whatever quarter is receiving from the animal body an enormous variety of physical experience.

He then went on to tell us about the history of the universe from the huge explosion of matter and energy (the Big Bang) through the formation of stars and then rocky planets on which complex chemicals were produced, leading to the synthesis of the first molecules of life and the emergence of the plant and animal kingdoms.

The greatest minds in the history of Western Civilization, from Plato and Aristotle to Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Boyle, all believed that the argument from design was the only reasonable explanation for adaptations in animals and plants.

Roquentin's confrontation with the void in Sartre's Nausea («Everything is gratuitous»), the defeatism of Mr. Compson in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury («All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not»), and Nietzsche's ironic and mournful declamations (such as his remark that the moment «clever animals invented cognition... was the haughtiest, most mendacious moment in the history of this world, but yet only a moment.

Not only that, but the idea that humans and animals developed to some point then were all but eliminated from the earth just does not line up with what we think we know of the history of the earth, at least as far as timing.

As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.

Physical barriers have also been used throughout history, such as condoms made from animal's intestinal tracts or stomach, halved and hollowed out citrus fruits as diaphragms (the citric acid also acts as spermicide), and melting suppositories designed to form an impenetrable coating over the cervix.

But his procedure is different from that of the zoologist; he is preoccupied with the general structures of animal life, and not alone with the «history» of a particular species.

The thing that amazed me about the biggest recall in US history with that many eggs is that is came from 2 companies only and it shows what big business it has turned into with no thought to the animals themselves or the environment.

I doubt they even considered it a substitute for cows» milk at the time, since Asians don't have a history of consuming milk from another animal.

Before using produce from the school garden, the USDA recommends visiting the garden and asking the lead gardener about growing practices, including the history of the land use, water sources, soil sampling and results, use of fertilizers and pesticides, and animal control measures.

Ranging from obscure baby names influenced by TV or geography, or some more unusual baby names inspired by design, ancient history, animals and planets we've got a grand collection of names to spark inspiration.

The event will include family - friendly activities; a live animal demonstration from Drumlin Farm's Audubon Ark; a short natural history talk on what you can see out on the trails; and guided walks of various lengths led by Mass Audubon naturalists on newly upgraded trails.

He was cleared to buy the gun — despite a history of violence toward peers and animals and his expulsion from the public high school for «disciplinary reasons.»

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

And instead of surmising the animals» thinking from field observations or working with a single trained subject, she conducted repeatable laboratory experiments, carefully designed to rule out alternative interpretations, with multiple birds whose history was uncorrupted by previous work.

There are a lot of interesting questions that can be answered beyond Europe,» such as the evolutionary histories of humans, animals, and plants from elsewhere in the world, which is one of her goals for her new lab.

Then in 1903, while surveying the Hell Creek Formation, a collector from the American Museum of Natural History named Barnum Brown came upon the remains of an extraordinary animal no one had seen before — Tyrannosaurus rex.

It represents only a small fraction of an animal's genome (the rest is nuclear DNA), and because it is transmitted only from the mother, it reveals just the genetic history of females.

In this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a walk in the park — Central Park — to talk about the spring bird migration and the role that Central Park and other green spaces plays in the lives of birds and other animals.

But regulations don't preclude animal shipments, and damage from escaped rodents «has never been reported in the history of aviation,» says a spokesperson for the European Animal Research Association (EARA) in Lanimal shipments, and damage from escaped rodents «has never been reported in the history of aviation,» says a spokesperson for the European Animal Research Association (EARA) in LAnimal Research Association (EARA) in London.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

Anthropologists and ethnologists have uncovered much cultural evidence, from oral histories and illustrations, that ancient African artists often used ritual animal blood in their creations, generally as attempts to please or appease their deities.

«Just as interesting is the presence of dental caries, showing that oral infections have a long evolutionary history in the animals, which can tell us about their sugary diet, presumably from berries.

For more than 140 years nearly all that scientists knew about this animal was derived from one lonely specimen preserved in a jar of alcohol in the Natural History Museum, London.

Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol, another co-author of the study, said: «This work illustrates a case of the impact of climate change on the evolution of animal biodiversity, and shows that for crocodilians, warming phases of our earth's history constitute ideal opportunities to colonise new environments.»

They placed the data from the 322 animal genomes into a «tree» to determine when in an animal's evolutionary history did the CMAH gene became inactive or «turned off.»

Other researchers are reconstructing climate history from a different sort of animal: impressionist artists.

Dolly made history as the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell using a technique known as somatic - cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

«Animals and sponges share a common evolutionary history from fungi.»

So in lieu of sworn testimonials from the animal kingdom, the «proof» of female orgasm's adaptive value still redounds to the person who can tell the most convincing story about its history of selection.

The history of science is littered with animals that seemed to be displaying extraordinary brainpower but were just responding to unconscious prompts from owners and trainers.

New research, published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, tracked the evolutionary history of 106 bacterial symbioses, in a range of animal plant and fungi species.

Born on May 23, 1707, the Swede turned natural history from a hobby into a science with his masterful systemization and documentation of what had until then been haphazard classification of plants, animals and fungi.

The team, including researchers from the Natural History Museum in London, quantified the anatomical and genetic differences between living animals, and established a timeframe over which those differences accumulated with the help of the fossil record and intricate mathematical models.

«Today, we can only find fossil remains of this tortoise, which reached a length of about half a meter,» says Professor Uwe Fritz, director of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden, and he continues, «For the first time, we examined the Bahama Tortoise's genetic material and were able to determine that these animals, who became extinct approximately 850 years ago, were closely related to Galapagos Tortoises and the Chaco Tortoise from South America.»

«We were interested in examining one of the most important evolutionary events in our history as animals: the transition from living in water to living on land,» said co-author Richard Blob, an alumni distinguished professor of biology at Clemson University.

2 By studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatures;

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.

But history shows that «the translation from lab animal to human is hit - and - miss,» she adds.

Sever yourself from the sordid history of animal testing in smoking research.

What she saw broke her heart and forever changed her perception of cosmetics: the lab where the chemical came from documented the history of testing it on animals to see its reaction.

Arguing that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights, Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a «thing» with no rights to a «person» with legal protections.

Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the exploitation of animals; the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water.

I mean, even this side has developed its own history during the course of «waiting for Animal Crossing», being renamed from «ac3ds» to «acnewleaf» and so on.

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Animal Crossing series, Nintendo has released a short video today looking back on the history of the series in Japan all the way from the Nintendo 64 original to last year's Amiibo Festival.

Students performed dances, made music, and displayed works of art that were aligned with their grade - level curriculum, exploring subjects from animal behavior and math facts to American history and electromagnetism.

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