Sentences with phrase «increasingly complex life forms»

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Then increasingly complex forms of life evolve until this process arrives at an upper limit of complexity: The process produces a physical organ, the human brain that is becoming too complex to draw its life - pattern from a purely material environment.

Nevertheless, basing their position on developments in molecular, organismic, and population ecology, Cobb and Birch characterize life as an increasingly complex special form of the organization of molecules and atoms that also involves a temporary and local decrease in entropy; there is no absolute, dualistic distinction between the living and non-living, animate and inanimate.

8 «The metaphor of a war of nature», Keith Ward writes, «here gives way to a different metaphor: that of a developing emergent whole, with increasingly complex and beautiful co-adaptedness among organic life - forms, and which pictures nature as expressing a continuous growth in harmonious complexity.»

About four billion years ago, the strength of those hydrogen - carbon bonds allowed increasingly complex molecules — amino acids, DNA, and proteins — to form from the primordial soup, making life possible.

Bech, a retired clergyman who lives at Duerne near Eindhoven, prepared the chemical mixture 10 years ago, and it has been forming crystals ever since, making the design increasingly complex.

Theories about the emergence of life suggest that increasingly complex carbon - based chemistry led to self - replicating molecules — and, eventually, the appearance of the first cellular life forms.