The variation that actually
occurred in the history of life was exactly the sort needed to bring about the complete set of plants and animals that exist today.
In the history of a living society, its more vivid manifestations wander to whatever quarter is receiving from the animal body an enormous variety of physical experience.
By KEN McNAMARA and PAUL SELDEN The first steps taken by an animal on to land was one of the most significant
events in the history of life on Earth.
But when it comes to explaining the Cambrian explosion, Darwin's Doubt is compromised by Meyer's lack of scientific knowledge, his «god of the gaps» approach, and selective scholarship that appears driven by his deep belief in an explicit role of an intelligent
designer in the history of life.
«Today, we live in an unusually cold
period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.»
Pterosaurs («winged lizards») hold a special
place in the history of life on Earth: They were the first creatures, other than insects, to successfully populate the skies.
We don't hear too much about burial insurance these days, but it actually figures
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«This lively book for a popular audience covers our current understanding of all the major mass
extinctions in the history of life and what they collectively mean for our future,» writes Lauren Sallan.
You may know him as the enthusiastic paleontologist at the end of the Dinosaur Train episodes, but Dr. Scott is not just
interested in the history of life on our planet, he's interested in the future of it as well.
«The most significant
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I've come to Bumpass Hell with David Deamer, a biochemist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, to watch him run an experiment recreating one of the most important
episodes in the history of life: when carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus came together in the primordial soup to form amino acids, DNA and the rest of life's building blocks.
«Next to the origins of life, there's probably no bigger
mystery in the history of life,» said John Archibald, an evolutionary biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.
The evolution of bilateral symmetry — the left - right balance of arms, legs, and organs that is a hallmark of all higher animals — was one of the greatest
leaps in the history of life.
Theropods encompass all carnivorous dinosaurs, including the largest land - living
predators in the history of life on Earth, such as Tyrannosaurus, and iconic agile hunters like Velociraptor.
These mass extinctions are important punctuation
marks in the history of life, as once - dominant groups are swept away and replaced with new ones.
12 WHY CONSCIOUSNESS PREVAILED Traits and functions rise or
fall in the history of life depending on how much they contribute to the success of living organisms.
AP3 Principal Investigator Julia Clarke is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies birds and other theropod dinosaurs to better understand major
transitions in the history of life.
One of the great
unknowns in the history of life is the part that Antarctica may have played in the evolution and migration of vertebrates (backboned animals) during the key time interval that spans the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and the beginning of the Age of Mammals (the Cretaceous — Paleogene or K — Pg, between 100 and 40 million years ago).
The quantity and concentration of highly varied limestone formations is extraordinary in a global context, whilst the superbly exposed geology provides an insight into the recovery of marine life in the Triassic period, after the greatest extinction event
recorded in the history of life on Earth.
From the puzzle - platformer Braid, to Bionic Commando Rearmed, the high - definition remake of the NES classic, we can safely say August is going to be one of the best
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The evolution of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria was arguably the most significant event
in the history of life after the evolution of life itself.
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The protein is widespread among viruses, single - celled protozoans, and many plants and arthropods, suggesting that the protein evolved very
early in the history of life on Earth.