Sentences with phrase «evolutionary stage it is in»

However, if evolution is valid, then a being is determined, not only ontologically, but epistemologically, by the evolutionary stage it is in.

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he evolutionary development of the eye is observable even today becuase the stages of its various stages are still there in extant species.
These stages are entrained at successive phases and are aligned in a sequence that reflects evolutionary growth.
The evolutionary development of the eye is observable even today becuase its various stages are still there in extant species with each stage fulfilling the organism's needs in their respective environmental niches.
For example, man as a given stage of the evolutionary process is able to gather the past, present and even part of the future in his consciousness.
Now those who accept the evolutionary perspective are generally agreed that the universe is one single process and that there are stages in the process: the evolution of matter, next the emergence of the first unicellular organisms, then a process of further evolution of life toward vegetative and animal life, and from this latter phase emerged man.
It is rather the next stage in the evolutionary advance on the planet Earth of overwhelming importance to us humans at this time, but perhaps only one among myriads given God's creative activity on other worlds.
In such a scheme, reality is viewed in terms of an evolutionary process which has given rise in successive stages to novel forms of life, all aiming at the fullest possible realization of their potentialitieIn such a scheme, reality is viewed in terms of an evolutionary process which has given rise in successive stages to novel forms of life, all aiming at the fullest possible realization of their potentialitiein terms of an evolutionary process which has given rise in successive stages to novel forms of life, all aiming at the fullest possible realization of their potentialitiein successive stages to novel forms of life, all aiming at the fullest possible realization of their potentialities.
strictly speaking, atheism is not a religion, but scientifically amd based in the panthrotheistic faith they are part of the will of God to become active and organized at this point of our evolutionary stage of change from the present obsolescent religions to a future scientific faith.
It shows how a behavioural pattern, which in an earlier evolutionary stage emerged only in the actual presence of a certain environmental situation, might, if it was selected as useful over many generations, become habituated to a chreodic developmental pathway which would operate even in the absence of that environmental situation.
«Emergent» evolutionism (a term first popularized by C. Lloyd Morgan) is a special case of the former, in which it is asserted that evolutionary progress is, on occasion, discontinuous — exhibiting entirely novel features whose appearance on Nature's stage can not be explained merely in terms of some novel rearrangement of previously - existing natural components.
Apart from the conviction that the supreme Ruler is also good, the vicissitudes of history appear as the «trampling march of unconscious power «6 or at most as stages in the spiral of evolutionary progress wherein the anticipated goal fails to redeem the loss along the way.
Cast in a broad evolutionary framework, Bellah's outline distinguished five ideal - typical patterns of religion, each of which is a distinct stage or «relatively stable crystallization» in the development of religion from early societies to the present.
Is there any sense in which the subjective aims of entities that exist at one stage of evolutionary history are directed toward some later stage of evolutionary history?
Yet, it is clear that Rees does not see the uniqueness of the human being on earth, choosing instead to see him just another stage in some ongoing evolutionary process.
But theologically we may still find the instinct of the New Testament synthesis significant, that in God himself there is a fullness and perfection that is unchanging and outside space and time, and that it is this which makes God the proper telos for a creation in which the mystery of that fullness is unpacked only through the ages of the evolutionary process, which passes through a series of increasingly critical stages and is now precariously poised in a dependence on the rational response of free creatures.
From the long evolutionary perspective, it is much more to the point to see the human race in a stage of uneasy adolescence.
In keeping with an evolutionary universe, a universe of space and time, of growth and passage, man, who relates to others in moments and places, who relates to them through the flesh, and whose relationships with them can never be fully constituted from the beginning but admits of stages, will need the sacramental economy to grow in his relationship with GoIn keeping with an evolutionary universe, a universe of space and time, of growth and passage, man, who relates to others in moments and places, who relates to them through the flesh, and whose relationships with them can never be fully constituted from the beginning but admits of stages, will need the sacramental economy to grow in his relationship with Goin moments and places, who relates to them through the flesh, and whose relationships with them can never be fully constituted from the beginning but admits of stages, will need the sacramental economy to grow in his relationship with Goin his relationship with God.
With a PhD in neuroscience and a specialization in the hormones of attachment, Bialik is uniquely qualified to explain the science behind the method and how it's your evolutionary right to tap into your intuition and enjoy every stage of parenthood.
«Because body size is determined by how fast you grow and how long you grow, this work sets the stage for us to move back in time and answer evolutionary questions about why and how animals have gotten bigger.»
The reality of what transpired in the months and years leading up to that fateful match in May 1997, however, was actually more evolutionary than revolutionary — a Rocky Balboa — like rise filled with intellectual sparring matches, painstaking progress and a defeat in Philadelphia that ultimately set the stage for a triumphant rematch.
And a very ancient origin of symmetry makes sense: Because all but the most primitive animals are bilateral at some stage in their life, Bottjer says, «this basic feature must have been an early evolutionary innovation.»
This new research reveals that grigs, and the way they create sounds using their wings, are of major importance in helping us to understand the early evolutionary stages in the centuries - old lineages of modern field and bush - crickets.
The early stages of this transition have now been studied by Martin Brazeau, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his advisor, paleontologist Per Ahlberg.
Humans are unusual, though, in that we have more or less stabilized ourselves at what would normally be a transitional, problematic stage — «more or less» because, while technology lets us minimize many of the old evolutionary selection pressures, it also introduces new ones; for instance, we are right now breeding ourselves to be tolerant of chemical pollutants.
«If you're in a lighter stage of sleep you'd be more attuned to any kind of threat in the environment,» said co-author Charlie Nunn, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke.
«That shift was an important first step in our lineage's evolutionary history, and it set the stage for the evolution of standing up on two legs and pair bonding.
The collection, published in this week's Science, is among the first to reveal all major evolutionary stages of feather development in non-avian dinosaurs and birds.
Here we report observations of gravity - mode period spacings in red giants that permit a distinction between evolutionary stages to be made.
About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.
It is our mandate (no pun) as men, our responsibility in this evolutionary stage to fearlessly act on love, without concern of rejection by women, or fellow males in their reaction to false societal rules.
«In this stage there is evidence of tissue wasting, the same kind that you would observe in anorexic patients,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University and lead author of the new studIn this stage there is evidence of tissue wasting, the same kind that you would observe in anorexic patients,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University and lead author of the new studin anorexic patients,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University and lead author of the new study.
This is a whole evolutionary stage SkaDate has gone through from a small dating site solution to a leader in community software industry.
So similar are the developments globally that one can now posit that all schools sit at a point on an indicative international evolutionary stages continuum, and that schools and their communities have in the continuum a simple scale on which to quickly position themselves and better understand the likely road ahead.
New quattro technology: The crown gear center differential Audi is presenting a new, evolutionary stage of its permanent all - wheel drive system for longitudinal engines in the high - performance RS 5 Coupé — the quattro drive with self - locking crown gear differential and torque vectoring.
The artwork was originally conceived in 2006 as the next evolutionary stage in Eno's fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of «generative» -LSB-...]
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.»
Similar to when the TCP / IP, HTTP and SMTP protocols were still in their infancy; the Bitcoin protocol is currently in a similar evolutionary stage.
The evolutionary drive in this stage is about reproductive care.
Almost everyone who is successful in selling real estate goes through these evolutionary stages.
A case in point is Brandon Weiss, owner of Geneva - based Evolutionary Home Builders who bought a few rolls of Harvard University soccer field turf to cover mud surrounding a house he was staging to sell.
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