Sentences with phrase «modern life forms»

I will focus on the past 540 million years since modern life forms evolved.

Importantly, by the end of the Mesozoic, the body plans and corresponding genetic developmental blueprints that define modern life forms were in place, although mammalian avian forms were still quite primitive.

The meteorite, found in 1979, has long been known to contain small amounts of the chemicals nitrate and perchlorate, which could be good or bad for life: To some modern life forms on Earth, perchlorate is toxic, but to others in oxygen - free conditions, and to those in the early days of Earth, it was a source of energy for microbes.

Organisms that old lacked many distinguishing characteristics of modern life forms, making their fossils exceptionally rare.

Starts with the first single - cell organisms and end with modern life forms.

Not exact matches

By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution at which humans are not really humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»

Then came the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to a huge diversity of life forms: most types of modern animals appear in the fossil record from this era.

In his humorous but pointed book Confessions of a Workaholic, Wayne Oates has summarized much of our modern belief in these words: «The workaholic's way of life is considered in America to be at one and the same time (a) a religious virtue, (b) a form of patriotism, (c) the way to win friends and influence people, and (d) the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

Another popular modern saint, Thérèse of Lisieux, lived a form of renunciation and mortification far beyond the reach of most Christians.

But at the same time she must ever look to the present, to the new conditions and the new forms of life introduced into the modern world.»

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

The air, sunlight, soil, forests, various life forms and water are all being affected adversely by the modern industrial, commercial culture which is not establishing a sustainable relationship with the natural world.

There is also, undoubtedly, a kind of neo-paganism among many Charter supporters, whose antipathy to modern society in all its aspects, from industrial to religious, has led them back to a radical premodernism, a pan-religiousness that appears to be some (partly imagined) basic form of religious life before the destructive divisiveness of the historic religions appeared.

For a republic, and especially for its democratic rather than aristocratic form, the principle of social life is virtue, which James Sellers has recently paraphrased in more modern language as «willed initiative.»

The price which the modern world has paid for the liberation of the French Revolution has been the decay of those organic forms of life which enabled men to live in direct relation with one another and which gave men security, connection, and a feeling of being at home in the - world.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

Regardless of ideology and form of organization, the modern nation - state has a tendency toward self - aggrandizement and expansion of its power in all areas of life and across national boundaries in pursuit of perceived self - interest.

Among the most provocative is that by Daniel V. A. Olson, which takes issue with the notion that modern urban life weakens all forms of religion.

In many ways the rise of the new state of Israel is the modern counterpart of the use of the idiom of resurrection to express in metaphorical form the hope of an historical renewal after the national life has been near to the point of extinction.

One modern Moslem writer seems to think it involved no more than simply having the Koran, as it was already in existence in the memories of living men, copied down in written form.

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

This was, in fact, a form of faith that denied the relevance of the Judeo - Christian tradition for modern life by denying it any place in the study program.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

«They offer a form of organized religious life that responds to the needs of modern Americans.

The basic insights into the atomic nature of matter and the genetic foundation of life, for example, are established beyond reasonable doubt and form the basis of almost all our modern technology and medicine.

Indeed, modern ecosystems depend on the persistence of bacteria and fungi and other relatively very simple and archaic life forms to break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients.

During the annual Eranos meetings in Ascona in the years 1951 to 1955, Joachim Wach often told me about the deep impression that the contact with the living forms of religious expression in modern Islam and Hinduism had made on him during his travels in Morocco and India.

In this respect, form criticism is as lethal to this kind of «modern historiography» as it was to the liberal life of Christ research, and the imagination of an existentialist «new quester» would have to be every bit as active as was that of any liberal «old quester».

It will also take into account the special form that family life has assumed in modern times while continuing the long tradition of the home.

However, as in many other areas of Christian life and thought, modern forms have been largely determined by the developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the age of Reform and Counter-Reform.

Above all, we really need to ask whether there might be a new form for food that is actually better suited to our modern lives — and whether these current «substitutes» even really make us feel hungry?

Today, however, the increasing pace of modern life means breakfast is normally grabbed on the go, in the form of a bagel eaten on the train or a muffin scarfed down at one's desk.

Ramsey has the qualities needed for the modern box to box were as wilshere doesn't really he is ok over a short distance with a short burst but beyond that he is quite static in the middle, but is excellent technically and can play a quick pass when he is on form use him as a springboard to launch counter attacks from any new manager that comes in will either help him improve or he will be a casualty of the new regime, unfortunately that reality of life in football i hope for one both of them stay and help us win trophies in years to come COYG

The performance captures how Ghanaian music has evolved from traditional music forms to modern forms like rap, hip - life and others.

Modern genetic fingerprinting on a massive scale, called «high - throughput DNA sequencing», can also tell which species live in a landscape based on the environmental DNA that they leave behind in the form of saliva, urine, faeces or blood.

If all modern species evolved from earlier life - forms, the branching must have begun with some common ancestor.

About 10 years ago scientists finally worked out the basic outline of how modern life - forms evolved.

In the modern universe, black holes typically form from massive stars that collapse under their own gravity at the ends of their lives.

«At the same time as this eclectic mix of ancient and modern - type marine mammals was living together, the marine mammal fauna in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean were already in the forms we find today.»

The shape and chemical composition of the mounds, called stromatolites, match those formed by modern bacterial communities living in shallow seawater, says a team led by geologist Allen Nutman of the University of

Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.

To him they resemble spore sacs formed by modern single - celled organisms called mesomycetozoeans, which sit between animals and fungi on the tree of life.

Claire Gmachl, who was not involved in the research and is Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and a pioneer in the field of semiconductor lasers, said that because lasers, masers and other forms of coherent light sources are used in communications, sensing, medicine and many other aspects of modern life, the study is an important one.