Sentences with phrase «far as a species»

Otherwise, we would never have made it this far as a species.

This is why I want to insist it is a human problem, not necessarily a religious problem (except in so far as our species has an incredible propensity for mythic navigation of its existential questions).

But you guys... they've always been hot, the discovery of fermentation enabled us to get this far as a species.

Not exact matches

The fossils could represent the earliest known examples of H. sapiens ever found (if confirmed by further research), and they serve as evidence that members of our species lived beyond sub-Saharan Africa.

Also, as each species is profiled, there are maps and symbols that further explain the animal's life and habitat, size, population, and conservation status.

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.

Look at how far we have come as a species.

The Satanists have far more respect for the female species than the «just doin» god's work as the little voices in my head tell me to» Christians ever will.

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.

As we have developed as a species, we have gained the ability to further research and in so many cases that research leads to answerAs we have developed as a species, we have gained the ability to further research and in so many cases that research leads to answeras a species, we have gained the ability to further research and in so many cases that research leads to answers.

I would say that it is essential, as we are physically inferior to pretty much any major natural predator, so the only way we could have possibly survived and come this far is by being smarter than the other species.

They, along with 150 other species of birds (which is equivalent to two - thirds of the birds in North America's forests), move each year from North America toward Central America and the Caribbean, going as far as South America, in order to spend the North American cold season in warmer latitudes.7

So far as I can tell, our species continues to confirm that thesis.

The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

Further microevolution within these distinct subpopulations produces the more observable morphological features readily distinguishable as two distinct species, however, the actual speciation event took place in the initial microevolutionary change.

Further, the Marxist understanding of human nature views social history as the process of the human species» selfcreation.

@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.

For in such an analysis, what is disclosed is that we are in truth a certain direction or routing of events which, because of a persisting memory of what has occurred along it, and because there has emerged (at some point in the evolutionary development so far as our own species is concerned) an awareness which includes both consciousness and self - consciousness, may meaningfully be given a specific identity.

A similar impulse of group formation seems to have become operative along each zoological branch, but at very different ages of the earth; so far as we are able to judge, the phenomenon has occurred in each case at a predetermined age of the species under review.

To begin with, it must be stated again that so far as I can determine, selfishness is indeed a predisposition of the species.

A few scientists have even gone so far as to argue that the initial conditions and fundamental constants established at the time of the big bang were fine tuned in such a way because our own species would inevitably be forthcoming.

As far as religion, it is delusional and counter-productive to the species, in my opinioAs far as religion, it is delusional and counter-productive to the species, in my opinioas religion, it is delusional and counter-productive to the species, in my opinion.

We simply must grow as a species, or we are surely doomed to a fate far worse than anything envisioned by Revelation.

A year after writing The Mass on the World, Pere Teilhard further defined his thought, in Mon Univers: «To interpret adequately the fundamental position of the Eucharist in the economy of the world... it is, I think, necessary that Christian thought and Christian prayer should give great importance to the real and physical extensions of the eucharistic Presence... As we properly use the term «our bodies» to signify the localized centre of our spiritual radiations..., so it must be said that in its initial and primary meaning the term «Body of Christ» is limited, in this context, to the consecrated species of Bread and Wine.

On this basis, Eigen maintains that abrupt changes of a quite major sort are to be expected in the normal course of events, as a quasi-species centered on one sequence is rapidly replaced by a rather different successor quasi-species centered quite far away on one of the extensions of the former species.

Father Driscoll discussed the shocking cost of shipping from Florida, and expounded on coconut palms, and fishtail palms, and tiger palms, and many other species of palms, and noted that as far as he could tell from his inquiries, Our Blessed Lord rode His donkey over the fronds of date palms, which is why our parish makes a strenuous effort every year to obtain date palms, for historical accuracy, but inasmuch as this year the cost of date palm fronds was prohibitively high, he was sure that the ladies would agree with him that the correct thing to do was to use local willow wands instead, and thus save money that could be directed to the poor and unfortunate of the parish.

Now as far everything else, fossils no — your right that we are MISSING fossils from the records due to fossils yet found, but i will say that the proof for evolution over time is found in the DNA of species.

Social science looks at religious activity and expression as something done on the earth by our species, instead of seeing it as something the earth does through us, as a further phase of evolution's groping toward mystery.

It would make far more sense to put two and two together and understand that evolving an early starting age for procreating would help continue our species, esspecially when facing lifespans as short at 30 years.

As more and more facts about our world were discovered (ie, the world is more than 6000 years old, humans were not the first species, there was no world - wide flood), science and religion have grown further and further apart.

I fully understand that a lot of people use religion as a tool for inner peace, and that is fine, but we as a species take it too far.

This conclusion was strong in my mind about the time, as far as I can remember, when I wrote the Origin of Species; and it is since that time that it has very gradually with many fluctuations become weaker.»

But if we are simply products of evolution we are the luckiest species in the universe as thus far no ther species even compares.

The Banrock Station Environmental Trust also supports internationally and nationally recognised conservation organisations to further their objectives in tackling global environmental issues such as climate change, water conservation, ecosystem loss and species loss.

In addition, producer / processors of other poultry species, further processors of chicken products (i.e. those who do not slaughter), and foodservice firms may join as allied leaders or members.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

A particular emphasis will be on how BASC's Green Shoots programme can be further developed so that its members will be able to contribute to monitoring and conserving habitats and species as part of the Government's Biodiversity 2020 programme.

All three species increased their use of symbols, as opposed to gestures, as they grew older, but this change was far more pronounced for the human child.

And as time passed, average size of species in the ecosystems dropped even further.

AS A species made up of eukaryotic cells complete with mitochondria, nuclei and other complex structures, it's easy for us Homo sapiens to look down on the far simpler prokaryotes, the cells of which lack such structures.

Previously discovered upper - jaw fossils classed as H. habilis, and dating back as far as 2.3 million years ago, look too different from the newly reconstructed jaw to belong to the same species, says Spoor's team.

The species spread as far as Java, and may be our direct ancestors.

They found a cut - off, conservatively given as 43 % forest cover, below which the squares held «markedly fewer species,» with up to eight key species lost for every 10 % of further deforestation beyond this threshold.

Then, however, genetic analysis reveals that members of these two species interbred and produced viable offspring that populated Europe and spread eastward as far as China and Papua New Guinea.

Even though the information of the exact species present in the monitored area and pollen release patterns of the individual species are far from complete, Peel and his colleagues conclude that the best way to explain the three concentration patterns is to look at the succession of different grass species with different diurnal flowering patterns which dominate the atmospheric pollen loads as the season progresses.

By comparing it with that of modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, plus Neanderthals and Denisovans, Meyer estimated its age at 400,000 years, twice as old as our own species and far older than any hominin genome previously sequenced (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12788).

On further inspection, the researchers classified the stowaway as a new species of Iflavirus, a type of RNA virus related to the polio virus.

Just as we are poised to begin exploring the frontiers of deep space, a sad truth is beginning to emerge: Far from being a naturally spacefaring species, we are frail creatures who may not be able to function for long periods outside the gravity, atmosphere, and magnetic field of mother Earth.

As Martinón - Torres explains, for a long time the idea was held that this species was a direct ancestor of modern humanity, and «all the human fossils found in what we call the Far East and in the current islands of Indonesia have been attributed systematically to Homo erectus.

As people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species losAs people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species losas they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species loss.