Sentences with phrase «by any organism on»

A sperm whale's click is by far the loudest sound produced by any organism on the planet.

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That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

The various metaphors from nature, on the other hand — organism, process, body, ground of being — tend to rule out full explication of the historical dimension as it is attested by the biblical writers.

The organisms selected by nature for survival will pass on to their offspring the favorable genetic characteristics.

Hence in opposition to Whitehead, at least as he understands him, Leclerc advocates a modified Aristotelianism, according to which the subordinate entities within a physical organism «act on each other reciprocally, and are thus each modified, in some respect, by the relationship, that is, by their acting» (NPE 309).

They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature of conscious centers competing for control of the organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly by the members of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.

In reality, they assumed, a deeper analysis of organisms shows that their behavior is also explained by efficient causes operating among their parts or on them from without.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

The range of possible activity is determined by the complexity of the nervous system, both on a sensory as well as a motor level (MM 41)-- sensory in that with a system of low complexity, an organism is simply not aware of the vast variety of movements in the material field, motor in that the variety of responses necessary for free activity are not materially accessible (MM 19, 43).

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

In both cases, however, the dominance of similar means of understanding is unmistakable, as both are based on biocentricity; in this perspective it appears then completely valid to look at Whitehead's philosophy of organism as a purified and newly founded resumption of that which appeared previously as animism, before being overlaid by thing - ification.

It is no longer simply a matter of cells organized by the hazards of natural selection, but of completed zoological units inventively building themselves into organisms on a planetary scale.

May 28, 2013 — The widespread disappearance of stromatolites, the earliest visible manifestation of life on Earth, may have been driven by single - celled organisms called foraminifera.

On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning in the realization of a novel subjective experience.

Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances of survival and reproduction for the organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

People who make cybernetic models of unicellular organisms now consider the unicellular organism as being imprinted and re-imprinted on by external changing stimuli.

In addition to choosing where they live, organisms make their own climate (bees), increase their food supply by grazing and fertilizing the soil and so on (Levins & Lewontin 1985).

If a organism can pass on its genes to 3 (counting both parents) or more offspring that survive by sacrificing itself then the sacrifice is beneficial, is it not?

By definition, nutritional yeast is deactivated yeast derived from a single - celled organism, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, which is grown under carefully controlled conditions on sugar cane or beet molasses for several days, harvested, washed, and dried with heat to kill (i.e. «deactivate» it).

Control weeds around the garden area because many disease organisms survive on weeds and can be transferred to peppers by insects and wind.

At RW Garcia, we've taken a stand on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) by setting a strict standard of adherence to both U.S. and European Union standards of allowable limits for GMOs.

It comes as no surprise to MRSA Action UK that the NHS has been put on red alert following reports that 400 cases of infection by deadly superbugs involving NDM - 1 and other Carbapenem - resistant organisms involving Klebsiella pneumonia and E.coli.

Caused by micro-organisms on the skin or body, they only become a problem when the organisms have an opportunity to breach the body's natural defences through an open or via intravenous devices.

There may exist a shadow biology — very, very primitive organisms that may have come into existence very early on our planet but were completely replaced by DNA organisms everywhere else.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Going by the name Pando (Latin for «I spread»), one particular colony of male aspen trees in Utah is not only the largest organism on earth (weighing in at over 6,000 tons), it is also the oldest, estimated to be 80,000 years old.

He had long been fascinated by waterborne microbes, so he set his sights on the organisms that make their homes in the shower.

But, if organisms could somehow survive exposure to those conditions, it might mean that life on Earth could have come from elsewhere in the solar system, perhaps ferried by a meteorite.

A microbial fuel cell, for example, could generate electricity by capturing electrons from the bacteria on electrodes instead of the rocks that these organisms evolved to breathe.

However, «siRNAs on their own won't be effectively taken up by cells, particularly inside a living organism» said Dr. Sharp.

Emotional intelligence tests are regularly used by companies and organisms in order to hire staff, to launch a product and so on.

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

By conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soiBy conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soiby which organisms live in the soil.

They focused on a mustard green called Arabidopsis, the reference organism used by plant biologists in their research.

Each one of these billions of plastic items can be ingested by organisms and have negative effects on their health.»

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

Of the species existing within this region, the authors anticipate that nearly 50 percent of the mammals, birds, reptiles, and other organisms found nowhere else on earth will become threatened according to the criteria of the Red List, an inventory of imperiled animals and plants maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Its discovery upended one of biology's core tenets: That all life essentially depends on the energy of the sun, either by using sunlight for photosynthesis or by munching photosynthesizing organisms.

► Researchers who have «made a new product by genetically engineering a living organism, and are eager to sell it in the United States,... need to answer a critical question: Which U.S. agency has to sign off on its safety?»

By eating mussels on the low shores in Oregon, sea stars keep those populations in check so the bivalves don't explode in numbers, at the expense of other organisms.

The authors point out that extreme sized animals tend to be found on islands because they fill ecological niches left unexploited by other organisms that never made it to the island.

Chemical analysis of even older rocks suggests that photosynthetic organisms were already well established on Earth by 3.7 billion years ago.

Because the chosen traits will likely be displayed by following generations, mate choice is central to both the conservation and diversification of species, and, thus, partially responsible for the great variety of organisms on earth.

«This 21st century approach, shaped by the actual biology of the nontarget organisms, is the best safeguard against inadequately informed approval of the next new class of pesticides (and that's something an outright ban on one class of pesticides can't do),» she adds in her e-mail.

Both organisms live on shed skin flakes, secretions, and bacteria provided by humans.