Sentences with phrase «grown as a species»

But inventing stories to make us feel better about our past is not conducive to growing as a species.

'' But inventing stories to make us feel better about our past is not conducive to us growing as a species.»

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

As we grow as a species, we realize that we can fulfill that role ourselves, and become that which we once attributed to the supernatural.

I think it would be very sad if we had not grown as a species in the last 2000 years, don't you?

«The Moon is an offshore island of Earth that has valuable resources which will benefit us as we grow as a species.

Not exact matches

Just by having a juvenile Chasmosaurus, paleontologists will be able to track how the species grows over time as it matures into an adult.

Brain - chemistry studies show that, as a species, humans need to be pushed out of their comfort zones in order to grow.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

Either you accept it as the theory which best explains the every - growing mountain of data across all scientific disciplines for the origins of our species or you do not.

We need to grow up as a species and shake off our remaining Iron Age superst.itions once and for all.

Inside academia a religion has grown up aroung the big bang and evolution as a means to species, even though these notional hypothesis are false as science.

Lenski and his student Zachary Blount note that «E. coli cells can not grow on citrate under oxic conditions, and that inability has long been viewed as a defining characteristic of this important, diverse, and widespread species.»

Let them starve and die, so we as a species can grow stronger.

Because of our contemporary awareness of the evolutionary, narrative character of the universe, and the growing sense of our species» continuity with this emergent process, we are now in a position to interpret the long search of religion as a prolongation of the cosmic struggle toward more intense beauty.

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.

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.

The schinus species of trees grow prolifically in arid, well - drained soils in almost any temperate area of the world, hence their popularity as a shade and decorative tree in many parts of Australia.

Most that was there 6 - 8 years ago has been replaced with fast growing Inga and Albizia as shade trees species that carry no epiphytes and less leaf cover.

In nature, it grows as an «understorey» species, shaded by the rainforest canopy.

Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

Most Indonesian cinnamon farmers grow their trees on small, remote parcels of land (known as bidangs) alongside other native species like surian, jati and malaku.

They are fast to grow but can be a little challenging to overwinter and might not produce continuous yield as easily as many other species do.

This study radiotracked several species of resident forest birds in the Coto Brus province of southern Costa Rica, now «dominated by sparsely - shaded coffee farms» — recall that in my post on coffee growing in Costa Rica that most farms, including those marketed as «shade» coffee, have few shade trees of only a couple of species, and lack the structural complexity necessary for true biodiversity preservation.

Depending on the species hibiscus can be grown as a small tree, shrub, or even as a bush in a container on ones patio or rooftop.

Translated, that means 660 varieties have been grown out, identified as to species and pod type, and their characteristics recorded.

As they are mostly tropical, and consequently tender, none but the annual species can be successfully grown in open culture in the Middle States or New England.

Research carried out by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre in Colombia and Mexico showed over 90 percent fewer bird species in sun - grown coffee plantations as opposed to shade - grown coffee59.

Species: Annuum Origin: USA Heat: Unknown Add to my growing list An attractive new variety from Reimer seeds which is registered by the United States Department of Agriculture as PI 185474.

Species: Chinense Origin: Bangladesh Heat: Nuclear Add to my growing list Naga Morich meaning «snake or serpent Chile is an apt name for this ferociously hot variety as eating even the smallest slither of one of these pods is described by some as like drinking cobra venom!!.

For the baby, breast milk provides species specific nutrition that changes as needed to meet the growing baby's needs.

The species is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix IIspecies is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix IISpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

In part, it reflects our status as a slow - growing species dependent on frequent infant feeds.

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.

S. acuminata, which grew up to 40 centimeters long, belonged to a diverse group of predators known as eurypterids, whose oldest known species appeared about 467 million years ago.

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

As the species» population grows and its energy harvesting intensifies, for example, the composition of the planet and its atmosphere may become altered for long timescales.

In a coral reef, as in a forest, there are rules that describe how densely or sparsely different species like to grow, how much they like being next to each other, and they often get ecological opportunities by living close to one another.

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

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

Today's big oaks grew up in forest patches that were relatively open; over the past century, these parts of the forest became shadier as villagers abandoned small - scale clearings, which have since become overgrown with hornbeam and other species.

Although many dinoflagellates can survive through photosynthesis alone, some species are able to grow twice as fast by preying on other algae — and it is this feeding mechanism that is now thought to be aided by the production of toxins.

Living shark species range from a few that could fit in your hand, such as the dwarf lanternshark, to a few you could fit inside, including the whale shark, which grows up to 40 feet long.

In places where the fish arrived more recently its growing market value has drawn more fishermen to the river, increasing pressure on paiche as well as native species.

They grew a colonial species, Volvox carteri f. nagariensis, in glass tanks, controlling for temperature so as not to create any currents.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

After all, a growing number of young people in their society were already flouting the traditional beliefs, illegally hunting endangered species such as the giant indri and eating their meat as a cheap bar snack.

Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and began what it called scientific whaling in 1987, a year after an international moratorium came into effect, despite growing global outrage, including from key allies such as the United States.

One of 30 - odd species of the delphinidae family of toothed whales — of which the largest is the orca, or killer whale — the bottlenose grows to nine feet long and 600 pounds, eating 30 pounds a day of fish such as pinfish, pigfish, and mullet.

As climate change causes the Barents Sea to grow warmer, for some years now other fish species like capelin and Atlantic cod have moved further northward, creating new competition that could reduce the polar cod population.