Sentences with phrase «most of the species»

Most of the species that have ever existed are extinct.

Sourcing from responsible suppliers allows Peace Dining to track most of its species back to the boat or farm.

The authors, naturally, write most of species found only in the Southwest, like the quaint little red - faced warbler.

The distribution of frogs ranges from tropic to subarctic regions, with most of the species found in tropical rainforests.

Most of the species died out 70 million years ago.

However, following careful analyses, most of those species turned out to be synonyms of another one discovered in distant 1905, H. flavipes.

Most of the species were mollusks, including marine snails, nudibranchs and oysters.

Most of the species live in trees and are threatened by deforestation.

But it will at least compile information on most of the species of life in the sea that are known and have been named, and estimate their geographic range.

They found evidence that most of the species possess the potential for acquiring dental stem cells, and that the final developmental step on the path toward continuously growing teeth may be quite small.

The study shows that most of these species turned up alive after only three or more thorough field searches.

«We assume this linked to road salt, because most of the species in these recurring groups are highly tolerant of salt; they're actually maritime species that have moved in from the coast.

Most of the species that once roamed in the pasture ecosystems have survived — some in the forests, some in deserts, some in the zoos, and some as domestic species.

Most of these species evolved in Australian and have especially long hind - legs.

«Our data suggest that when most of our species left Africa, it was dry and not wet in northeast Africa.»

The researchers found that five major groups of spiny - rayed fishes, or acanthomorphs, and most of the species diversity in a sixth had their origins within the first 10 million years after the end - Cretaceous mass extinction.

The intestinal «microbiome» is the collection of bacteria, viruses, fungi and archea organisms; but, mostly, it's many different forms of bacteria that by far make up most of the species.

«Overall,» writes Mead, «it is clear that cat predation is a significant cause of death for most of the species examined.»

Most of the species are called by their native Hawaiian names such as ʻamakihi, apapane, i» iwi, and mamo.

Mangroves are indigenous to the tropics and subtropics worldwide with most of the species found outside of the Americas.

In the simulation the film effectively reduced the amount of bleaching in most of the species.

More importantly most of those species were behaving in a manner consistent with natural cycles.

Most of these species are unknown, and even for the ones we know about, we have very little information about their current population size and distribution, life cycle habitat needs, extinction drivers, and mechanisms to eliminate these drivers as soon as possible.

The consequences and effects of global warming have reached most of the species on earth, including us of course.

Most of the species of sharks reproduce quite slowly.

They seem to have been restricted to watersides for most of the species» existence as far as I can tell, and it was when CO2 levels dropped that they spread to what we see now.

Remember, most of the species that ever existed are now extinct — I don't want us to join the majority!

Not exact matches

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

The females of most species of mosquito are blood feeders (a practice entomologists call hematophagy), because they use proteins in blood to make yolk for their eggs.

On the one hand, some species of bacteria are responsible for some of the most nefarious of human diseases.

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

There are four species of the flu virus — A, B, C, and D — with the most common being strains of A or B viruses.

Dopamine is one of the most important chemicals in our brain, driving many of the behaviors that make humans more sophisticated than other species.

Hot products, no matter how unlikely their success (read Beanie Babies), are the most obvious of those endangered species.

Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

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.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

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.

Due to badgers being a protected species in North America and most of Europe, the successful usage of synthetic bristles is the first significant change to the shaving brush in 250 years.

Fraser River and its tributaries offer all five species of Pacific Salmon on seven of the most productive rivers in the province.

In most species, the ratio of males to females is approximately one to one.

The bad news is that Interpol researchers found adverts selling parts of some of the most critically endangered species on earth on one of the most difficult to regulate Internet platforms,» Tania McCrea - Steele, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Global Wildlife Cybercrime Project Lead said in an Interpol press release.

only minds can concvive of thoughts, sry if your lacking mr. fake... a thought is one that is transferible by accidenct — those that read or hear even sometimes feel can be instantly takenover by a thought, and as thoughts go — you, I, everyone, hasn't had a original thought in most likely ummm, say a long friggin time, i'd say personally i think being that the species is as old as (provible) 37,000 thousand years old, every thought as been thought since by maybe a few thousand years... and thats a hopeful «thought» being i believe our average person to be generally dumb.

Chad has repeatedly betrayed: his non-comprehension of what a species - level change is (i.e. the focus of PE) and that this most minor of changes does not require a wholesale reordering of a genome; his inability to grasp that gradualism, although the clear minority in the fossil record, is present in various lineages (See Gould's various references to Foraminfera); his non-comprehension of the role of historic genetic contingency (i.e. that silent mutations can coalesce into rather dramatic novel functionality, e.g. Lenskis» E. coli); that the nodes of PE are more than sufficient for the requisite species - level evolutionary changes (See Pod Mrcaru lizards); etc, etc..

Our species has flourished — or come to dominate the other species — not because of the techno - freedom displayed by individuals, but because we are the most «eusocial» of the highly intelligent animals.

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,....

If you can explain how Noah built an ark capable of holding every species of animal and insect, I will then believe in 1 of the hundreds of gods man has most likely made up.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia