Sentences with phrase «over eons»

In the absence of research indicating otherwise, and in the context of human history and anthropological observations of societies over eons, the position which stretches credulity is the one which presumes that there are no other differences in any other ways than physically between mothers and fathers.

The need to mold human children as if they were blank slates, or some kind of clay, has resulted in all kinds of now - discredited childrearing ideas over the eons, everything from the ostensible dangers of breastfeeding, to those of sparing the rod; from genital and other physical mutilations thought to be necessary for health or spiritual salvation, to the very mutilation of minds and emotions.

Resources that accumulated over eons of geological time are being consumed in a single human lifespan.

The surreal natural formations of Turkey's Cappadocia region, where soft volcanic rocks have eroded over the eons into fanciful cones and spires, now have some serious man - made competition for tourist attention: The world's largest contemporary land art park, comprising 10 giant sculptures made out of more than 10,500 tons of stone.Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers picked this part of central Turkey for the latest installment of his five - continent «Rhythms of Life» art project due to its natural beauty and long history of settlement by many civilizations.

The surreal natural formations of Turkey's Cappadocia region, where soft volcanic rocks have eroded over the eons into

Green plants bloom like crazy from the CO2 - rich air / water and dissolved nutrients in the ocean accumulated over eons of nothing removing it.

So if positive feedback is a figment of warmist dreams, as appears highly probable, precisely what suggests that negative feedback isn't the the most likely factor that has maintained at least some measure of thermal equilibrium over the eons?

Perpetual motion machines, turning lead into gold and capturing moonbeams in a jar are just some of the fanciful notions that have attracted human attention over the eons.

At any rate, when «normal» rain containing natural carbonic acid falls upon silicon - containing sedimentary rocks formed over eons from the shells of tiny marine creatures — radiolarians, diatoms and some sponges — this «siliceous» rock combines with the carbonic acid to form ions of bicarbonate.

As to the 500 million year assessment, there was no significant ice for most of the time and any temporary effect is averaged out over the eons.

That effectively stopped the project dead in its tracks, because for the foreseeable future, biofuels will be more expensive than fossil fuels since industry has to do all the work that Mother Nature did for free over the eons.

Say, jim2, them cheshire sunspots disappearin» in a solar lull... We'll need ter call on old King Coal, stored sunshine over eons.

But the world has had many faces over its eons.

There are of course other causes for other changes that have occurred, including suspected asteroid impacts, changes in volcanism over the eons which can lead to the buildup or reduction of greenhouse gases over long time scales, etc..

Stravinsky's «Rites of Spring» Certain passages in this piece occasionally cause me to have involuntary visualizations of primitive life forms evolving over the eons.

We are evolved from this magnificent planet, from the balance of its ecosystems developed over eons.

Nature is always changing over the eons, and I have known constant change in my life.

Over the eons travelers have spanned these worlds, including a band of rogue dark elves who set themselves up in The Stygian Abyss.

The rock stacks were created when waves and winds sculpted the limestone over eons of time.

The confluence of these two river forces over eons eroded the red sandstone of the Blyde River Canyon into Bourke's Luck Potholes which now shimmers full of well - wishers tokens.

These genes have moved between chromosomes over eons, but they are present (conserved) in all mammals.

Over the eons, their bodies have lost their ability to process the sugar that carbohydrates in food generate.

Over the eons of book publishing, agent querying became the obvious next step once an author finished a manuscript.

After all, we are creatures genetically adapted over the eons to a certain diet.

The Sun will then evolve into a white dwarf, slowly cooling over eons.

If organisms transferred to Mars over the eons failed to survive, modern organisms would likely face the same fate.

Sandblasted by interstellar dust gains and irradiated over eons, long - period comets from the Oort Cloud are not exactly pristine relics from the birth of the Solar System (more).

The southern reservoir itself may have been in place for hundreds of millions of years, or it may come and go as part of a cyclical process over the eons.

Many fossils have been discovered, which is strong evidence of an earlier time when the Earth's continents were much different from today, many of them connecting and then disconnecting over eons.

Then after much damage from a human (and animal & plant) perspective is done, the warming will level out (stabilize) and eventually come back down again over eons.

The researchers estimate that in a billion years or so, it would become entirely invisible — a possibility that suggests that the universe may have many more such objects that have, over the eons, become undetectable.

Mars has lost most of its atmosphere to space over the eons.

Whizzing asteroids and comets have battered Earth and all the other solid bodies of our solar system over the eons, but the ethereal rings of the giant planets seemed immune.

Lunar regolith is made from solid moon rock that has been ground down over eons by meteorite impacts.

Supermassive black holes in the cores of galaxies are thought to fatten slowly over eons, so finding such a heavyweight so early in the history of the universe is «really pushing it,» he says.

What's more, such extensive RNA editing seems to have helped to minimize changes in the cephalopod DNA over the eons that they have been around.

As a result, it looks as if cephalopods have changed very slowly over the eons of their existence.

After breakfast, we travel to Bryce Canyon National Park, where the haunting rock formations known as Hoodoos have been shaped by wind and water erosion over the eons.

But rather than a monotonously uniform surface homogenized by impact cratering over the eons, the first up - close look at the asteroid reveals a full palette of mineral «colors» (mapped here in false color reflecting the wide range of rock compositions).

Planetary scientists hope that analysis of Phobos's regolith will shed light on the nature of the satellite's deep interior because of the turnover between the surface and the interior over the eons.

The black holes in each of these binaries will, over eons, emit gravitational radiation, lose orbital energy and spiral inward, ultimately merging into a larger black hole like the event LIGO observed.

Over the eons, wind and water have carved this landscape into a maze of stunning red sandstone arches and spires.

Pore spaces that shelter subsurface microbes areconstricted to the vanishing point in metamorphic rocks buried over eons byfurther sedimentation, volcanic eruptions, or massive folding of Earth's crust.And dense crystalline material formed by melting — basic igneous rock — offerslittle housing or dining.

More ash fell, and over eons it was compressed into a soft rock known as tuff.

If you can dream of a molecule, no matter how bizarre, there is a finite probability that over the eons of time and the immensity of space it has existed somewhere.»

But before thinking about applying pesticides, gardeners can design (or re-design) their gardens to make the most of native plants that have evolved over eons to thrive in local conditions without synthetic aid or lots of water.

Over the eons, layer after sedimentary layer of coccoliths created such landmarks as the White Cliffs of Dover.

Such a radiation bath would have vaporized most of Mercury's crust, and over the eons the solar wind would have blown the remnants back out into the solar system.

Thus its population steadily declines over the eons.

enthusiasts say the pleasure derives from its slow motion: Shifts occur, sediments accrete over eons, static landscapes conceal dynamic lives.