Sentences with phrase «existence as a species»

It is a divine communication with us right from the first moments of our existence as a species.

We will continue to evolve to fit new environs, new challenges to our existence as a species or we will go extinct.

The only reason the sun seems stable enough for us to live with it is that in relation to astronomic timescales our whole existence as a species is but a flash of light in darkness.

Anger is instrumental in our existence as a species.

Not exact matches

They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»

Aristotle originally describes knowledge as a grasp of cause and essence: to know a thing, we must know the four causes of its existence and the essential genus and difference of its species.

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

You cited the continued existence of the stem species as damaging to evolution, now back it up or admit you don't have a fvcking clue what you are talking about.

(The existence of «ring species», such as the Larus gulls, illustrates the problem, as indeed does «speciation» in evolution, whereby all animals are of the same species as their parents and offspring, but not as their remote ancestors or descendents.)

However, all this, as we know, has had to be reconsidered by Christians, Mother Church included, once the geological and palaeontological sciences began to reveal the apparently immense age of the earth and the evidence that the biological species did not all come into existence at once exactly as they are today but by some kind of transformism.

Even within the Forms there must be relative nonbeing, existence not only in itself (as an indivisible and hence incommunicable unit) but in relation as a divisible whole of parts, a generic unity communicable to its species.

In spite of the fact that the cosmos is truly our home (as we argued on scientific, biblical, and environmental grounds in the preceding chapter) our species nevertheless began (during the axial age) to feel gradually somewhat exiled from subhuman patterns of natural existence.

Notwithstanding the fact that whatever human meaning we may discover would be inseparable from the meaning of the cosmos, it is still necessary for us to focus our quest for the meaning of revelation on the question of the significance of our own existence as a distinctly historical species.

The result of this sort of anthropocentrism, as Ruether and ecological writers note, is a tendency for human beings — like any species — to «maximize [their] own existence and hence to proliferate in a cancerous way that destroys [their] own biotic support.»

I do believe in the fellowship of humans as a species, that I believe are worth continuing in existence.

Loosestrife reproduction relies on a rare phenomenon Darwin called heterostyled trimorphism, the existence of three different flower types, each containing a sexual apparatus «as distinct from one another as if they belonged to different species.»

The existence of phenotypic plasticity has implications for morphology - based species descriptions as well.

This work was quickly followed by evidence intimating the existence of a class of RNA in ribosomes that hybridized uniquely to genomic DNA of the same species, but not to that of foreign species (10), what later came to be known as mRNA.

The ability of these RM systems to allow bacteria to reversibly switch between different physiological states, combined with the existence of such loci across many species of medical and industrial importance, highlights the potential of phase - variable DNA methylation to act as a global regulatory mechanism in bacteria.

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.

The mass production of grains through agriculture is only a few thousand years old... Compare that to our ancestors historical existence as hunter - gatherers as far back as a couple of million years, and our current species (homo sapiens) 200,000 - year history as hunter - gatherers.

Molecules such as these are often found in common between species that are closely related in evolutionary terms, so the existence of BAMLET, coupled with the demonstrated anti-cancer properties of camel milk, strongly indicates that something similar is found in camel milk.

Throughout this he, along with writers John Logan and Dante Harper, explore new territory with the creation and existence of the alien species as well as the possibility of androids outsmarting humans.

In theaters today, «Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.»

In theaters January 20, «Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all - out war to eradicate both immortal species.»

The existence of species in danger of extinction such as the spectacled bear (Tremarctos omatus), the Andean Cock - of - the - Rocks (Rupicola peruviana), the dwarf deer (Pudu mephistopheles), etc. was one of the reasons why the government decided to declare it a Conservation Unit.

This exhibition will explore how the poppy became the symbol for remembrance, provide an opportunity for contemplation and reflection on loss and recovery, as well as look at the science of poppy biodiversity, the many species of poppies worldwide and the threats to their existence.

The groups, Oceana and WildAid, released a report today online that consolidates several recent studies showing that many shark species, after hundreds of millions of years of roaming the seas as a dominant predator, are being fished out of existence by the new king of the sea: people.

In reality, we owe our existence to the power of the human genome and the perseverance, ingenuity and adaptability of our species and as our species has given life to each of us as individuals, so have we inherited the responsibility to ensure that our species continues to live in a healthy, sustainable way in its environment.

Solutions: Put the care of the earth at the top of the list as we and all other species depend on it for our continued healthy existence.

Why we as a species believe that we have the wisdom or the ability to force the rest existence to accommodate our ill - considered whims rather than accept our moment in an extremely limited niche is a reflection of a collective insanity.

So what is most directly and immediately at risk is not so much the * existence * of species but their roles in the ecosystems, such as the roles of corals and calcifying algae in building and maintaining habitats such as reefs.

Darwin began «Origin of Species» with a long discussion of the breeding outcomes of pigeons, as evidence for the existence of evolution.

As a result, the cats started eating other bird species, quickly putting their existence at risk, which again prompted the scientists to intervene — launching a campaign of extermination that succeeded in removing all of them by 2000.

They seem to have been restricted to watersides for most of the species» existence as far as I can tell, and it was when CO2 levels dropped that they spread to what we see now.

In a criminal text, «Derecho Penal,» Zaffaroni posits that making animals the subject of regulation, as opposed to having inherent rights of their own, deprives them of the ability to preserve the existence of their species.

A news release says Sousa «believes the world stands at a crossroads with respect to global climate change and urges the real estate profession to be participants in the call for urgent and radical action as it is threatening the lives and existence of billions of people and millions of species.»