Sentences with phrase «of modern animal»

A grid of modern animal prints keeps the room playful.

«Mike was not only NACA's founder and first president,» continued Blow, who was himself NACA president in 1984 - 1986, «he is considered the father of modern animal care and control.

Genevieve Cahill has been a Certified Veterinary Technician since 2001 and is the owner of Modern Animal Behavior.

In the early days of modern animal behavior study two primary schools of thought dominated the field.

We have recently completed the construction of a modern Animal Care Center in Blount County to be used to house animals, ensure proper medical care, perform spay and neuter procedures and act as a classroom to educate the general public about proper animal care.

Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation was born as a public / private partnership in 2007 resulting in funding and development of the modern animal shelter that Blount County enjoys today.

The goal of the modern animal shelter is to provide a safe and caring environment until the animal is either reclaimed by its owner, placed in a new home, or placed with another organization for adoption.

Vivid, moment - by - moment descriptions of life in the field will draw readers into this biography of pioneering environmentalist Schaller, a founder of the modern animal conservation movement.

Studies of modern animal teeth and jaws helps inform about wear patterns on fossils.

The findings, published online today in the journal Current Biology, resolve «Darwin's dilemma»: the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

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.

It is only because we can match developmental events to evolutionary events, only because we now have both the fossil record, which shows us the path that evolution has taken, and the developmental record of modern animals in extraordinary detail, that we can begin to link the two.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

After taking measurements, Ryan compared Rooneyia's ear canals with those of modern animals to determine how it would have moved in life.

Scales are visible to the naked eye; more remarkable, electron microscopy reveals double - layered skin similar to that of modern animals, and possibly even the outlines of cells.

His idea sounds simple enough: Look hard at the bones of modern animals to study the tiny marks that soft tissues make on bones, and see if such subtle marks can be found on dinosaur fossils as well.

«Lethiscus also has broad impacts on evolutionary biology and people doing molecular clock reproductions of modern animals,» says Anderson.

But genetic studies of modern animals had suggested that all of these creatures evolved from a single - celled ancestor that lived at least 100 million years before that, leaving a huge gap between the estimated origin of animals and the appearance of the earliest known animal fossils.

Normally it is possible to deduce the feeding habits of fossil animals on the basis of the shape and wear of their teeth — however, the teeth of the Giant Sloth are not comparable to those of modern animals.

Parasites and disease are a huge component of the lives of modern animals, dinosaurs would be no different, and now we have another small insight into how such interactions might have looked.

Rather, the rising levels of oxygen in the oceans became the trigger for complex life - forms to attain mobility and features of modern animals.

Not exact matches

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

Part of an emerging crew of startups operating in cellular agriculture — the pairing of food science with genetic engineering — Modern Meadow plans to appeal to more than just the animal - activist crowd.

From the dog that couldn't grasp the concept of an escalator to the eagle that destroyed a drone, here are some of the most epic encounters between animals and modern gadgets.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

Entry to the upper floors — which include rooms dedicated to vintage and modern renderings of the Gucci logo, items emblazoned with Gucci's recurring motifs (like the horsebit and the red - and - green stripes), and Gucci's exploration of the iconography of animals and gardens — costs 8 euros, with half of that donated to restoration projects around Florence.

Kant's approach may hold at bay the antihumanism of modern science (we are just clever animals in an insignificant corner of a vast cosmos), and it may serve as a bulwark against the ruthless rationality of economic efficiency and the putative demands of progress, but Michalson concludes that Kant's approach to the question of God makes theology less and not more plausible.

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

«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.»

Second: modern biology shows there to be an extraordinary similarity between the biochemistry and physiology of all animals.

Through the aid of modern science we have learned so much about our physical and animal environment that we can destroy and kill with tremendous efficiency.

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.

A professor of ethics at Princeton University, Singer is the author of Animal Liberation (1975), which instigated the modern animal rights movAnimal Liberation (1975), which instigated the modern animal rights movanimal rights movement.

Even up till modern times class and caste divisions have obscured the unity of the human species, while animal lovers have frequently projected their own human consciousness into animal experience.

And as for the origin of species and evolution in terms of the scientific method, that scientific method has given us the ability to decode the DNA genome of many animals, and to show where, back in time, the various relatives of man and modern apes, for example, branched off into separate species.

Yet liberalism as a political theory, understood as a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage among free and equal persons, is considered by friend and foe alike the essential expression of what it means to he a political animal in the modern West.

(1) human life (2) animal life (3) vegetable life (4) single living cells (5) large scale inorganic aggregates of occasions (6) energy - events disclosed by modern physics

The founder of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, was quite explicit in holding that animals were in fact only objects with no feelings.

Our modern view of animals can be traced primarily to...

Darwin's theory of evolution, as understood by most of the modern scientific community, has nothing to say about the «gap» between humans and «lower» animals, because no such gap is recognized.

However, it is clear that parts of the bible condone and even advise behaviors that modern people have mostly left far behind and would consider unacceptable, such as slavery, subjugation of women, and even animal sacrifice.

How is it possible that two such mutually exclusive concepts of man could be championed from ancient until modern times — man, an animal; man, a God?

So, when we use the phrase «political animal» today, it might be wise to recall that it originally reflected an understanding of civic affairs almost diametrically opposed to our modern obsessive fascination with partisan struggle, polls, campaigning, and the fortunes of a distinct «political» class.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

The cramped and cruel methods used in the modern food industry, for example, may cross the line of morally acceptable treatment of animals....

Yes, something quite amazing happened in the case of the evolution of humans, but that doesn't mean that we didn't in fact evolved from the same animals other modern primates evolved from.

On the other hand, it would be overly simple to claim the Hebrew Scriptures in support of our modern study of animal life or the work of environmental conservation, since it is clear that neither priest not prophet thought the order of nature as we now see it to reflect God's intentions, either original or ultimate, for it.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

When did «tithing» go from the old testament giving of crops and animals, etc, to our modern 10 % of our paycheck?