Sentences with phrase «as the species on»

«And as a species on top of the food web, understanding their status and contribution to the ecosystem is important for understanding the status of the ecosystem as a whole.»

In Kate's discussion about Neandertals and our own history as a species on the planet, reminds me of the origin of the celiac disease issue which is, you know, very deeply tied with our human history.

«My concern is that [the Sumatran rhino's] future viability as a species on this planet and the future viability of any offspring is really in question because the habitat just isn't there.

As Weir points out, it likely owes its survival as a species on being geographically isolated from its parental species at some point during a past ice age when rainforest coverage contracted, and wide rivers formed natural barriers.

The cyber-space-time continuum is considered the propitious level of reality in which to gradually participate in making decisions that affect us as a species on our planet.

However, she sees in the vision of de Chardin that «the spirit of the earth is calling us into the next stage of evolutionary history, moving us forward from viewing ourselves as isolated individuals and competing nation states, to realizing our collective presence as a species on the planet.»

Climate change will adversely impact present and future generations, as well as all species on Earth.

Animals may decline faster than predicted in these models as the species on which they feed are threatened.

Not exact matches

«Design can help us create a better ending and extend our time on earth, so at least the next species won't think of us as morons,» she said, eliciting laughter from the audience.

The team named the species Tongtianlong limosus, which roughly translates as «muddy dragon on the road to heaven,» or so it's been nicknamed, «mud dragon.»

As the Seascapes Director at Conservation International, Laure Katz, a University of Virginia EMBA, raised $ 38 million dollars to protect Indonesia's Bird's Head Seascape, which she describes as «the single greatest reservoir of marine species on the planet.&raquAs the Seascapes Director at Conservation International, Laure Katz, a University of Virginia EMBA, raised $ 38 million dollars to protect Indonesia's Bird's Head Seascape, which she describes as «the single greatest reservoir of marine species on the planet.&raquas «the single greatest reservoir of marine species on the planet.»

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

But such people, too, are an endangered species as robot cooks are on the march around the world.

It's also working in Beijing on new technology in genome editing; unlike GMO technology, it doesn't involve inserting a gene from another species, such as a bacterium, into a plant.

Hopefully they will find and understand the beauty and interconnectedness of the universe, how little we know about it, and just how much we have yet to learn as a young alien species stuck on a rock that's drifting through the void.

Carrey jumped on the opportunity to go after Hannity by depicting him as a manatee — which is listed as a threatened species by the US Interior Department — implying that Hannity's career may be in jeopardy after the revelation.

If a calamity, self - made or otherwise, destroyed life on Earth, as long as a human colony was established elsewhere, the species could endure.

There are other aspects of the NGP Report that merit further discussion, including its approach to adaptive management (we now have three different JRP reports in as many years that take different views on the extent to which AM can be relied upon in making a determination as to the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects under CEAA), the precautionary principle, species at risk and Aboriginal consultation.

As Musk likely sees it, this is just another setback on the road to turning humans into an interplanetary species.

Interpol's research focused on the trade of rhinoceros, elephants, and tigers, as all international trade in those endangered species is prohibited.

If a species, especially an advanced one, had similar stories to ours and also insisted on a god similar to that of the bible, could that be construed as some evidence that a god exists and that its the one from the bible?

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

Also altruism has a distinct survival advantage for a species as a whole (a species that helps its own survive to reproduce is likely much more successful than an individualistic species that focuses only on a single «family» unit).

On the origin of species, space, time, matter, mass, gravity, as with what we see, or can measure, we try to explain our own cause of exsistance, or for some, that «how».

Our survival and prosperity as a species depends on our social skills and ability to work together.

The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their grasp on reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

Since its 1861 discovery in Bavaria, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, most scientists have placed Archaeopteryx at the root of the broad group of proto - birds, known as Avialae, from which our avian feathered friends emerged.

This basis of morphogenesis is dismissed by Meyer due to his fixation on novel genes and new protein folds as prerequisite of emergence of new species.

We have seen evolution happen with our own eye's as nearly every damn thing on this planet is a transitional species.

We have no right to continue our present behavior, as if we were the only species on earth and, moreover, as if the present generation were the last.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

It is the fact that non-functional sequences of dna have been passed down from parent species prior to a split in sub species or classifications and exist on the exact same location within the strand of the other sub species, which was the final evidence convincing me that God did indeed use evolution as His means of creation.

The science (human population genetics) is clear that our species arose as a population, and that is what I have focused on (since that is my area of expertise).

Humans are indeed unique — as is every other species on this planet.

On the international level he is encouraged by shifts within the World Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporationOn the international level he is encouraged by shifts within the World Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporationon the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporations.

We are not punished FOR our sins, but we are certainly punished BY them as we inflict untold suffering on our species.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

i disagree... our species will not survive as long as we hang on to these ridiculous bronze age beliefs....

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

Lenski and his student Zachary Blount note that «E. coli cells can not grow on citrate under oxic conditions, and that inability has long been viewed as a defining characteristic of this important, diverse, and widespread species.»

Right away on receiving the information about natural selection as factor in the becoming of animal species Peirce said to Chauncey Wright that he'd have to give up his determinism; animal habits are not absolute regularities.

@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

In commenting on the results of experiments with pigeons and primates, Premack notes that since sentences contain both relational and absolute classes, a species» potential for sentences depends upon its having both, as chimps, but not pigeons, demonstrably do.6

Some evolutionary social scientists refer to our species as «the moral animal,» which I suppose means that we have the potential to reflect on the affects of our behavior rather than simply be blindly driven by survivalist insticts.

Quit putting us in wars over religion... we have enough problems on this planet to deal with as a species... real problems that will take all of us, working TOGETHER, to solve.

Most of us are politely quiet and secretly roll our eyes when someone says that god speaks to them or that they have been touched by god etc., yet when someone mentions any of the other things we are quick to point out that they are wackos... perhaps it is time for us to speak up and say there is no such thing as god and it is time to clear our heads and get on with moving the human species forward and leaving fairy tales and silly beliefs behind.

That's why I think we really need to step up the incentives to use more reliable methods that don't count on humans to be too reliable... we just aren't as a species.

It's not certain that Jesus existed (as portrayed in the bible at least), and you know the bible is totally unreliable on most things — creation for one, origin of species for another, «historical facts» such as Noah's Ark, Jonah's whale, etc. etc..

A ship that held every type of species on earth even whales and fish... as they never would have survived the drop in salinity — or rise in salinity for fresh water fish... you try to build a 450 ft x 70ft ship at 500..