Sentences with phrase «of terrestrial life»

The building blocks of terrestrial life, including proteins and DNA, are composed mainly of carbon, along with hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.

Many biologists, intent upon scientific objectivity, are reluctant to see in the development of terrestrial life anything more than an unlimited proliferation of forms, all on the same level.

If the quality of terrestrial life is to attain a level which makes it worth the effort of living it, this achievement is possible only in terms of the practice of relational power.

As we learn more about our own planet and the evolutionary history of terrestrial life we feel a stronger urge than ever to put it into context.

It divided in two and the multiplication has continued ever since in new and various forms, linking the diversity of terrestrial life to a single origin.

Their health affects the health of all terrestrial life.

The impact of a marine extinction event would likely mean the extinction of major elements of terrestrial life.

If Donoghue's results are right, «This changes the entire timeline for the origin of terrestrial life and the subsequent pace of evolutionary change in plants and associated animal (and fungal) groups,» says Pamela Soltis, a plant evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Man, like all other forms of terrestrial life from which he has evolved, is a physical mortal creature, whose life is lived within those limits of space and time to which his creatureliness subjects him.

All forms of terrestrial life require water, and while it is possible that life could evolve without the precious liquid, it is easier to search for conditions that are known to be optimal, rather than conditions we suppose could be.»

In stark contrast to the rampant extinction of terrestrial life that happened at the same time, Guadalupe was the last refuge for the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) and the Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) in the 1890s.

Not that actual, provable science means anything to those determined to believe what they WANT to believe instead of actual facts... but it's looking more and more like the building blocks of terrestrial life fell from the sky..

To an observer unaware of what it signifies, the event might at first seem to have little importance; but in fact it represents the complete resurgence of terrestrial life upon itself.

I think it has something to do with Finding Meaning in the hardpan existence of Terrestrial Life.

The view of terrestrial life sub specie aeternitatis («under the aspect of eternity») is a philosophical ideal made commonplace by flight and satellite imagery, yet it remains persistently transcendent.

«The implication of our study is that elevated CO2 is sufficient to lead to inhospitable conditions for marine life and excessively high temperatures over land would contribute to the demise of terrestrial life,» the authors concluded in the article.

Defining the organism that existed at this point, and when and where it lived, might help toward one of biology's major goals, understanding the origin of terrestrial life.

Two periods of extinctions of terrestrial life were separated by a brief, sharp, almost total extinction of marine life.

In an effort to discover whether life on Earth originated on Mars, researchers at MIT and Harvard are developing an instrument to compare the genetic makeup of Martian microbes with that of terrestrial life.

If Hoover's new analysis and interpretations hold up to scrutiny, the work could powerfully influence longstanding debates over the origins of terrestrial life and rarity of life elsewhere in the universe.

The topsoil — the fertile mix of loam, rock dust, minerals, partly decomposed wood, straw and leaf litter, fungi, bacteria, invertebrates and moisture from which all of terrestrial life derives its nourishment — remains one of the great unexplored economies of the planet.