Sentences with phrase «enough as a species»

Intellectually, we are at least advanced enough as a species to discard such silliness, but people too easily allow their better judgment to be clouded by emotion.

Are we mature enough as a species to safeguard the rights of future generations without the threat of a day in court?

Not exact matches

But in a related note, you are correct that many many species have not made it to the present - day, only those well - suited to the current environment, and all those between their initiation and now (not easy); also all those lucky enough to avoid catastrophic events such as large collisions.

As long as the meme is popular enough, and requires people to face hardship to destroy it, even when our species would clearly be better off without it in the future, the masses will folloAs long as the meme is popular enough, and requires people to face hardship to destroy it, even when our species would clearly be better off without it in the future, the masses will folloas the meme is popular enough, and requires people to face hardship to destroy it, even when our species would clearly be better off without it in the future, the masses will follow.

If science able to offer any truths that would help humans solve the kinds of real psychological, social, political problems that they constantly face, then I'm sure that as a species we would be rational enough to use those truths.

Think about it: The earth, at 25,000 miles «round the equator, is just barely big enough to contain all life... and perhaps... It IS N'T big enough to contain the (self - over-populated) species «H.Sapiens.Sapient», («Human - Kind»)... also known as «H.Sapiens.Egotisticae», (aka, «Egotistical Man»)!!

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.

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.

One wonders why Johnson trots it out again in such simple and uncritical form as his only positive argument for purposive origin of species, as if merely stating it was reason enough to take the argument seriously.

While there has not yet been enough time for different dog breeds to amount to separate species as opposed to breeds, that is just a matter of degree.

Contemporary humanity faces, in such issues, the question of whether we, as a species, have enough access to universalistic principles not only to confront and constrain recalcitrant abusers of the cosmos and the neighbor, but to guide and shape the whole of what appears to be an emerging, single cosmopolitan civilization — although it is likely to be the most diverse and culturally pluralistic civilization that ever existed.

Matt, in the article Dr. Amy says «THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THOSE CLAIMS»: maybe I'm wrong, but to my non-native understanding, this sentence doesn't necessarily mean «there is no evidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire species».

Soon, only robots will be clean enough to run for office, and our fate as a species will at long last be sealed.

This showed that horns were most likely in conspicuous species — those living in open habitats and large enough to be clearly visible to predators — suggesting that they evolved as defensive weapons (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1256).

When testing was complete, the first hunch of the Malaysian team proved right: «Sure enough, results from Rafe's genetic analysis showed that the frog from Peninsular Malaysia was genetically too distant from the Siberut Island Frog to be considered the same species, so we decided to describe it as a new species.»

Strict followers of the biological species concept might also have to classify some dog breeds as separate species, Hey suggests, because a Chihuahua can not jump high enough to make puppies with a mastiff.

The scientists also suggest setting up extra breeding stations for key species, in addition to the two centres already being built, to act as arks, so that enough amphibians could be bred to recolonise the habitats in a crisis.

In order for the shorebirds known as red knots to survive their annual migration from the Southern Hemisphere to the species» Arctic breeding grounds, they rely on a series of site along the way to provide enough food for their stay and to fuel their onward flight.

Even more species wait as saplings for a giant to die and let in enough light for them to grow.

Fossilized denticles, tiny tooth - shaped scales that once covered their skin, are the oldest evidence we have for sharks — though researchers disagree on whether denticles alone are enough classify a species as a shark.

Of the roughly 1000 species listed in the United States as endangered, only 13 — including the American peregrine falcon and the American alligator — have rebounded enough to warrant removal from the list.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

«Once we get enough samples, it benefits the species as a whole.»

As subpopulations moved into isolated areas, how did they remain isolated over a long enough time for new species - defining traits to arise in nuclear genes and become enriched by natural selection to permit speciation?

This is good news for annual species, like the field mustard, that can adapt relatively quickly to climate changes, but portends poorly for longer - lived plants, such as California's redwoods, that may not be able to change fast enough to keep up.

As if rampant deforestation and poaching weren't bad enough, climate change will have a devastating effect on the majority of Madagascar's lemur species, most of them already imperiled, according to a paper published this week in Ecology and Evolution.

And though paleoanthropologists see the Rising Star discovery as a major breakthrough, some question whether there's enough evidence to prove that the hominins found in the cave are a new species.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Once the molecular analyses» results were also in, the authors had enough evidence to assign the freshwater crab as a species and even a genus new to science.

The two species also show other dental features that group them with later Old World monkeys and apes, but are still different enough to be classified as separate — and more ancient — species.

Studies like this one could enable us to predict which species will be most vulnerable to population declines due to habitat changes, as the inflexible specialist species are more likely to suffer when they can't find enough of their preferred food.

«As a human, I'm horrified that we might not have enough time to save the species.»

On the other hand, populations of newly evolved species successful enough to grow and expand rapidly must eventually crash or slow down, as any species uses up available resources and interact with others that seek to take advantage of their increased numbers through predation or parasitism instead of symbiosis.

We as a species have been eating meat long enough to have evolved to appreciate its nutritional input.

Well, there's a simple explanation for that... humans were the ONLY species with a well developed enough brain to understand how to control fire and therefore cook our food... And since we've been cooking a portion of our foods for the entire existence of our species (200,000 years) as well as our ancestors back several million years, our digestive systems have adapted to eating a portion of our food cooked.

Currently the prebiotic FOS is under fire for not being selective enough for probiotics since it feeds bad bacteria such as Enterococcus species.

If you do want to breed tortoises, keep in mind that many species from tropical regions never experience anything like what we think of as winter, and for all intents and purposes, the same natural temperature drop in households should be enough for them as well.

The list should include perches of different diameters (including swings and ladders), beak conditioners (and cuttlebones for smaller bird species), extra dishes (as many cages don't come with dishes that are large enough), litter or liners for the bottom and, maybe most importantly, toys.

As a species, we have slept long enough, hibernating in our own ignorance.

Most of the cages that are sold as «hamster cages» are actually suitable for dwarf hamsters and don't provide enough floor space for the larger species of syrian hamster, or have components that aren't safe for a larger hamster.

Although the authors do mention «the extinction of many native animal species on islands» [11] briefly in their introduction, the purpose of the paper is, as the authors state plainly enough, to «show that the number of naturalized plant species has increased linearly over time on many individual islands.»

It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.

It is big enough to include a few species of mantella frogs as well as day geckos.

In fact, some species, such as those in the lovebird family, can become unfriendly very quickly if not given enough attention.

However, as with any parrot species, their habitat needs to be at least big enough for them to flap their wings freely.

Admittedly, smaller parrot species such as budgerigars (parakeets) and cockatiels are rarely given a separate play area, as their cages can be large enough to accommodate flapping wings for exercise and plenty of toys to play with all day.

The dilute (also known as Maltese) gene also appears in both mice and cats, and interestingly enough, is not associated with any abnormal coat conditions in those species.

Domestic cats can be hybridized with other small wild species of cat as these are genetically similar enough to give rise to offspring, but they can't be hybridised with other species of animal.

Here you will come face to face with Africa's Big Five and may be lucky enough to encounter other rarer species such as the endangered wild dogs and cheetah.