Sentences with phrase «over the eons»

In a different way, this is again the theme of abstract versus concrete; but the abstraction involved is a selective attention by our senses that has developed over eons of evolution.

They are evolutionary tools developed over the eons to protect us.

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

Shall I recount the numerous wild beliefs over the eons regarding the sun's daily behavior in the sky?

But because laboratory mutations in these genes can cause monstrosities — such as a fly with legs where its antennae should be — many scientists doubted that natural variation of homeotic genes could underlie the incremental, survivable changes that accrued over eons as animals gradually evolved improved body parts.

We know that Mars was once a lot wetter than it is now, and we know it was also covered in glaciers that have come and gone as the Martian climate has radically changed, driven by drastic periodic changes in the planet's axial tilt over the eons.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

The moon, peppered with the impacts of asteroids over the eons, should also possess dollops of platinum and other precious metals.

Calling something transitional only has meaning when looking back over the eons of evolution.

You need to read some of the other mythology that's been out there over the eons.

The problem is that blind, unthinking submission, submission, submission — emphasized over eons of time — does not encourage clearheaded critical thinking, without which no democracy can succeed.

The really amazing thing to consider is that people have gotten cancer and other deadly diseases since the dawn of time and this has not shaken people's faith over the eons.

It contains Shalajit (Himalayan mineral powerhouse) and Ormus (semi-precious stone silicates washed down the mountains over eons).

This so - called evolutionary arms race (also known as the Red Queen hypothesis) can be tracked over the eons as each species adapts new strategies to outwit their predators — and / or their own prey — making the dynamic a two - way street.

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

Thus its population steadily declines over the eons.

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.

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.

But there's a problem: The Milky Way, to cite an example, doesn't seem to have gathered enough star clusters over the eons to explain its 300 billion suns.

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.

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.

How could such a small, weak «mini-magnetosphere» fend off the onrushing solar wind that should have uniformly darkened the lunar surface over the eons?

The results provide a surprising picture of just how little of our genome has been «conserved» by nature not only across species over eons of time, but also over the more recent time period during which humans differentiated from one another.

At first blush, parsing the modern human in terms of behaviors apparently hardwired into the brain over eons of evolution seems like a tidy, straightforward exercise.

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.

Therefore, we can all see that those rocks did not cool and solidify over eons, as commonly taught!

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.

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.

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

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

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

We can call it logic and back - test it to an atomic level over an eon, but, ultimately, we have to accept that we're value investors for reasons peculiar to our personalities, and not because we're men and women of reason and rationality.

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

Water seeps from the ground above and the slow steady drip creates the formations over eons.

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.