Sentences with phrase «many of the species»

«It's exquisitely beautiful; I'll see spotted eagle rays, giant leatherback turtles and a number of species of shark, such as nurse sharks and lemon sharks,» he tells the Telegraph.

The takeaway then isn't that women are actually the thrill seekers of the species.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

Runners are a unique type of species.

This unique combination of advanced and archaic features suggests something profound, Hublin said — he's convinced the Moroccan specimens «represent the very root of our species.»

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.

«He was an original of a species.»

[This is] one of my favorite reads [and] traces the development of our species» thinking, and how the individual mindset transformed into a pack mentality.

Cultural psychologist Jerome Bruner says curiosity is so important that it «is essential to the survival not only of the individual but of the species».

Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so - called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical.

«We feel very strongly that in a couple of years, customers will be looking for the origin of the product, how it was caught, and the scientific name of the species,» says Marie - Claude Bacon, director of corporate affairs.

The baby's birth is the result of a breeding between Tuma and her chosen mate Henry, who are part of the Species Survival Plan, overseen by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

In the spring of 1858, Charles Darwin was two - thirds through his manuscript for On the Origin of the Species when he received a paper by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.

If you use one hand for writing, you probably use the same one for eating as well, and most of us — around 85 % of our species — prefer our right hands.

A tulip of the species called Admiral Liefken, weighing 400 perits, was worth 4400 florins; an Admiral Van der Eyck, weighing 446 perits, was worth 1260 florins; a Childer of 106 perits was worth 1615 florins; a Viceroy of 400 perits, 3000 florins, and, most precious of all, a Semper Augustus, weighing 200 perits, was thought to be very cheap at 5500 florins.

Many of the species Amazon is growing here are endangered or extinct in the wild, acquired from botanical gardens, universities and private growers around the world.

Caribou planning often talked of using offsets as a tool for arresting the decline of the species and its habitat.

«We are globally recognized for our superior quality, food safety, diversity of species and reliable worldwide delivery of premium wild, eco-certified seafood,» said Jeff Duffin, Clearwater Seafoods» Global Vice President of Marketing.

And... «it is estimated that 99.9 % of all species that have ever existed are now extinct.»

Paleontology has progressed a bit since Origin of Species was published, uncovering thousands of transitional fossils, by both the temporally restrictive and the less restrictive definitions.

Now, to see evolution in other species, you can do things like dig up fossils, and compare the progression of a species.

Science is defined by the scientific method, and since we can not observe, test, and re-test, the origins of the species, we are all left to have faith in something.

Rather, it's focus is the variety of species.

If they are right then maybe some of how we understand plan A is based on faulty understandings of our species.

Even if we accepted the «kinds» argument where only families were on the ark, not all of the species, it still does not address why there are similarities among families.

Wouldn't it be a miracle if one day, perhaps in my lifetime, humans turned their back on the past and became the one incarnation of the species Homo sapiens to accept that there is no god and pour their intelligence and resources into the discovery of reality?

Carl Elliott, both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in philosophy, is a bioethicist (though rather different from many members of the species).

Evolution makes predictions about what we would expect to see in the fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetic sequences, geographical distribution of species, etc., and these predictions have been verified many times over.

Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

The reason we see the bewildering variety of species we do in the world is because nature's been at the evolution game for BILLIONS OF YEARS.

There are thousands of species of shrimp alone, plus fossilization is an incredibly rare process, you aren't going to just magically find every species to ever exist.

A man got two of every species of creature of the entire planet, fit them onto a boat, and then survived a world - wide flood?

In a social setting where your livilihood would depend on the number of people you have, this kind of tactic actually did a good (although barbaric) job of ensuring the propegation of the species.

On the origin of species, space, time, matter, mass, gravity, as with what we see, or can measure, we try to explain our own cause of exsistance, or for some, that «how».

As Pope Francis warns: «The disappearance of a culture can be just as serious, or even more serious, than the disappearance of a species of plant or animal» (145).

Just because the universe appears ancient, doesn't mean than evolution had time to create the diversity of species it says occurred.

Francis points to the destruction of species and entire ecosystems as examples of a «cheerful recklessness» (59) that characterizes modern financial and industrial culture.

Each mutation can cause the genetic fingerprint of a species to diverge, or branch slightly.

God could manage to keep all «his» trillions of species of animals, birds, fish and insects and bacteria alive, thriving and healthy for obviously the last 6,000 years, and more likely many millions of years before that.

To say that evolution was «proven» 100 years ago is to disregard the fact that even Darwin doubted his own contentions (as he states in origin of species), for every bit of scientific evidence for evolution there is scientific evidence against it.

We are very special beings if you have not noticed; intelligent, passionate and imaginative just to name a few attributes of our species.

As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.

In «The Origin of Species» he refers to nature as the «works of God,» and calls God the «Creator» an amazing seven times.

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.

It's hard to tell where Lawler ends and Manent begins, but here's a snippet: For Manent, who is among one of the most endangered of species, a French Catholic intellectual, the modern nation, at its best,....

You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which by the way required the loss of genetic material — to have happened regardless of the amount of time you had.

In the dynamic of creation, even the millions of species that have disappeared are not finally lost.

In Origin of Species there is a passage where Darwin expresses fear about the entire idea that he posits in the book and fear about the possibility of being held accountable for it.

Neither could he procreate, and so assure the continuation of his species.

Evolution nicely explains the gradula modification of a species — i.e. the variety of dogs on earth.