Sentences with phrase «animal kingdom as»

His rival, Georges Cuvier, saw the animal kingdom as four diverging branches, reflecting different body plans that had functionally adapted to different environments.

In the animal kingdom as a whole, there is a general rule that applies in most cases.

There are plenty of strong and lean herbivores I could point to in the animal kingdom as some sort of proof that human should eat plant based diets, but that would be ridiculous, because humans aren't herbivores.

«Buckland also claimed to have eaten his way straight through the animal kingdom as he studied it and, allegedly, part of Louis XIV's embalmed heart, pinched from the snuffbox of his friend the Archbishop of Canterbury.

It reminds me of Descartes and his view of the animal kingdom as automata, a term that has often been misconstrued.

Not exact matches

And don't claim aything about this «humans as the higher standard, rule over the animal kingdom» B.S. People kill much more indescriminently than any animal ever did.

ahh but it happens in the animal kingdom — They eat their feces and eat their young as well

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

But, he says: «The emergence of consciousness in the animal kingdom is perhaps as great a mystery as the origin of life itself» He will, however, agree that there can be little doubt that consciousness in animals has some function and can be looked at as if it were a bodily organ.

I agree with you that the human mind has great capacity as we were given certain gifts that allow us to understand the creator which the rest of the animal kingdom does not possess.

In sum, we can speak of (a) a relation to nature — the animal kingdom, the calming of a storm, rain and fruitfulness of the land; (b) the social and political community — the overcoming of economic injustice, oppression, cheating or bribing, conflict and lack of compassion; (c) the wellbeing of persons in the community — an aspect assumed in the critique of things that hinder it (covetousness, anger, jealousy) and depicted as family and communal harmony.

It is partly based on the elements of probability of our present life sustaining universe resulting from the big bang, as well as the uniqueness of the human animal within the animal kingdom.

The essence of the human person, that which specifies the human person amongst the entire animal kingdom (of which he is a part), and that which sets him apart as a species, is to be found in his rational nature.

«While no single food can supply all the essential life sustaining nutrients, quinoa comes as close as any other in the plant or animal kingdom.»

The Owl is considered the smartest bird in the animal and kingdom and you can show just how wise you are as a parent with the My Little Night Owl Sleep Sack from Baby Aspen.

A very strong lactation advocate once said that in the animal kingdom there is no such thing as formula... My response was that in the animal kingdom a pup that doesn't latch properly or doesn't get adequate milk from its mother DIES.

But remove all the insects, which comprise about 75 percent of species in the animal kingdom, and the world as we know it could not exist.

THE USE OF VOCALIZATIONS, such as grunts, songs or barks, is extremely common throughout the animal kingdom.

Turtles are often described as evolutionary monsters, with a unique body plan and a shell that is considered to be one of the most intriguing structures in the animal kingdom.

However, the results of more recent phylogenetic analyses, derived from comparisons between sequences of specific genes and of whole genomes, seemed to point to Ctenophora as the first group that parted company with the lineage from which the rest of the animal kingdom (including sponges) evolved.

Just as we were getting started, it became clear from our research and others» that these body - building genes were not restricted to fruit flies; they were shared throughout the animal kingdom.

With wit and heart, de Waal uses examples from decades of his own research as well as others» work to make the case for different types of intelligence in all corners of the animal kingdom.

A subset of such genes, known as Hox genes, is found across the animal kingdom, in humans as well as fruit flies.

Although RNAi was known as a major antiviral mechanism in plants by that time, few believed it was also true in the animal kingdom, which was known to fight viral infections by many other well - defined mechanisms.

But elsewhere in the animal kingdom advances have been just as dramatic, if relatively unsung, with scientists pioneering techniques to improve artificial insemination and store frozen sperm, eggs -LSB-...]

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

He claimed to have eaten his way right through the animal kingdom and objected only to earwigs, describing them as being unappetisingly bitter.

Its all semantics anyhow as our language has evolved to describe human qualities perfectly but when it comes to the animal kingdom we're not really past the «beef» and «sausage» stages.

While proteins involved in endocytosis, such as clathrin, are conserved across the animal and plant kingdoms, the members of the TPLATE complex appears specially designed for plants.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

For as much as we empathize with our canines, we have been stingy about recognizing empathy elsewhere in the animal kingdom, reserving it as a human trait.

But the significance of the discovery as a model for evolutionary innovation could extend throughout the animal kingdom.

Researchers seeking the evolutionary roots of the animal kingdom have discovered a bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, that acts as an aphrodisiac by releasing an enzyme that sends the choanoflagellate, Salpinogoeca rosetta, one of the closest living relatives of animals, into a full mating frenzy.

The researchers will now focus on determining how widespread this hormone is in other animal groups related to the worms, such as snails or mussels, to get further insight into its role in the animal kingdom.

It possesses sensory equipment as well as a comblikeprojection used by the male to coax music from his wings, and itsmuscles are powerful enough to accomplish some of the most impressiveleaps, proportionally speaking, in the animal kingdom.

As far as absolute brain size goes, humans don't have the largest brains in the animal kingdom; that privilege goes to whaleAs far as absolute brain size goes, humans don't have the largest brains in the animal kingdom; that privilege goes to whaleas absolute brain size goes, humans don't have the largest brains in the animal kingdom; that privilege goes to whales.

To be more precise, Haeckel designed the monophyletic tree of life, because it shows all three kingdoms — animals, plants and Protista (organisms that can not be classified as a plant, animal or fungus)-- arising from a common root («Moneren Radix»).

«They can go through a 200 - mph dive and sudden recovery without fracturing, such as seen for the peregrine falcon, the fastest member of the animal kingdom.

The successful mother bears are engaging in a tactic found elsewhere in the animal kingdom: treating the enemy of their enemy as a friend.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

The sponge genome confirms that sponges share much the same genetic tool kit for multicellularity as the rest of the animal kingdom.

It should come as no surprise that sex in the animal kingdom is often rough and dangerous.

This type of sequential learning is common across the animal kingdom — just as humans learn to speak, for example, songbirds learn to sing.

For instance, sea birds known as Leach's storm petrel actually experience telomere growth as they grow older — an unexplained anomaly in the animal kingdom [source: Yeoman].

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ACCELERATED REGIONS: Sections of the genome that are largely conserved across mammals and even the entire animal kingdom, but differ in humans, are known as human accelerated regions (HARs).

The ability to regrow limbs lost through accident or the action of their nemesis is a power usually thought of as belonging only to comic - book heroes, but in nature the ability to regenerate tissues and even whole limbs is surprisingly widespread across the plant and animal kingdoms.

We see ourselves as the top of the food chain, invincible overseers of the animal kingdom.

Be compassionate toward everyone you meet, all of humanity, the entire kingdom of animal life, and our planet and cosmos as well.»

As the article is saying, rats need high protein intakes to grow, but that is not the case for human beings: the milk of human beings is the one containing the less protein in all the animal kingdom.

Well, there are similar necessary components found exclusively, or almost exclusively, in the animal kingdom — not the plant kingdom — such as carnosine, carnitine, creatine, and taurine.