Sentences with phrase «prehistoric past»

Robinson has built a career crafting scientifically realistic novels that probe our deep prehistoric past, our crisis - wracked present and our possible interplanetary futures.

Hendrik Poinar and his father, George Poinar Jr., an insect pathologist with a penchant for amber, have spent their careers exploring portals to the prehistoric past — tracing species» appearances, movements, adaptations and extinctions.

They also celebrate the scientists, many of them NSF - funded, who persevered in the toughest of environments to wring new chapters from the planet's prehistoric past.

«The Dawn of Man» opens in the prehistoric past in the Pleistocene era - four million years ago, the location where the human race itself (evolving from primitive apes) was born.

Dawson's paintings weave the prehistoric past into the present embracing a vast history of some 30,000 years.

«If it was right for Delacroix and Matisse to travel to far and strange places like Tunis and Tahiti for subjects,» he wrote, «what is wrong with traveling to the catacombs of the unconscious, or the dim recollections of a prehistoric past?»

The finished works take on the appearance of found stone carvings, folding our prehistoric past in with the present.

A painter of both fantastical landscapes and the cosmos, Dawson weaves the prehistoric past into the present embracing a vast history of some 30,000 years.

Additionally, even though levels of atmospheric CO2 haven't reached the peak high of the prehistoric past, the rapidity of today's increases may affect climate and temperature in ways we can not predict.

The problem is that humans weren't collecting climate data during these time periods and obviously weren't present for most of the prehistoric past.

In a similar vein, the ancient Norse — drawing, perhaps, on some racial memory of climate change in the prehistoric past — insisted in their eschatology that the end of the world (Ragnarok, marked by warring among gods and men and great natural disasters) would be preceded by three great winters or «fimbulwinters.»

Abrupt flips have happened in the prehistoric past.

Thus, warm droughts of the prehistoric past might provide evidence useful in understanding the current climatological changes, and for providing scenarios for worst - case droughts of the future and evidence of hydroclimatic responses in the Southwest to warmer climatic conditions.

So for years archeologists have dug there for a clue to America's prehistoric past.