Sentences with phrase «primitive life forms»

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.

What began as an expedition for primitive life forms became the discovery of something seemingly unearthly, inaccessible, and dangerous to humans.

The figures struggle with high temperatures and the 99 % humidity while looking for primitive life forms.

Yeasts and fungi are very primitive life forms, they do not make energy the way we do.

In the most primitive life forms, RNA probably reproduced by making RNA copies, at first on its own and later with the help of protein enzymes.

Once the earth was unpopulated and later it was teeming with primitive life forms.

Not exact matches

The consensus on the evolution of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

It has its setting in what the German form - critics have called the sitz - im - leben, the «life - situation,» of the primitive Christian Church.

Its molten surface began to cool, and several billion years ago it acquired a solid crust upon which very primitive forms of life began to appear.

God: Yeah, one of the species of life has developed some primitive form of speech and they have started calling on me to intervene on their behalf.

For this tradition a linguistic sentence is regarded as a sign of a relatively high level of complexity sharing certain common features with more primitive signs interpreted by lower forms of life.

Life was not content to remain stuck at a primitive level but instead advanced toward more sentient, conscious, and eventually self - conscious forms.

Then after another billion years or so, the earth's surface having cooled sufficiently, primitive forms of life began to appear.

In principle, life (in a generalized sense) and mind were there all along, but in primitive forms, much more primitive even than in a single plant cell.

We do justice to the fact, which strikes nearly every scientist, that between so - called «lifeless» matter and primitive forms of living matter there is only a relative difference, not an absolute one.

Two or three billion years ago primitive forms of life appeared that eventually evolved into plants, protozoa, reptiles, birds, mammals and finally humans.

We may conjecture that very primitive forms of life began to appear in the seventh or eighth volume.

View 1 is that of «colonial missions» in which missionaries see the gospel as «acultural and ahistorical»; or according to which missionaries recognize the need for some adjustment to culture but tend to look down on other cultures as primitive and inferior; to emphasize form more than meaning; and to introduce Western ways of living and worship.

In its primitive form, it did not mean that the reflective individual conceived of himself as having had innumerable prior lives and as destined for many future ones.

7) green plant life appears on land (3rd day) Primitive plant forms colonize the dry land.

Astronomers studying a nearby dwarf galaxy have detected large organic molecules, suggesting that the basic chemical building blocks of life can form in places much more primitive than our own galaxy.

These primitive objects contain amino acids, the building blocks of life, and appear to be nearly unchanged fragments of the material from which the solar system formed.

Such adaptation at the molecular level is seen in most primitive forms of life and has been evolutionarily conserved all the way up to humans, he adds.

A comparison with the most primitive life - forms on Earth will tell us a lot about whether the spark that changes prebiotic chemistry into life is common or rare.

It is known that Mars, well over 3.5 billion years ago, may have harboured primitive microbial - life forms, when flowing water and volcanoes promoted the formation of hot springs.

Importantly, by the end of the Mesozoic, the body plans and corresponding genetic developmental blueprints that define modern life forms were in place, although mammalian avian forms were still quite primitive.

With its odd assortment of features, the creature still provokes debate about whether it is a dwarfed form of H. erectus or some more primitive lineage that made it all the way from Africa to southeast Asia and lived until as recently as 60,000 years ago.

Beyond the Asteroid Belt frontier, just orbiting over Jupiter's skies, there is a vast world of ice and - perhaps - primitive forms of extraterrestrial life.

I can not be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic of space, primitive sex forms, the sensual and the erotic, disconcerting contours, the things of life.»

Scott continued to explore the space between abstraction and figuration, exploring primitive forms and motifs inspired by everyday life.

I am a mixed media artist exploring and creating adventures... working with color, pattern, personal mythology incorporating chicken wire, fabric, tapestry, story naive, primitive, folk art, collage, expressing my voice, the archetypal feminine vibrant, passionate, I, an artist griot shouting my life through totems, hoodoos, dress forms and intimate words, screaming journal entries from the pages adorning what you may or may not see.

Gradually, like a new planet, his art evolved primitive life - forms: colorful molecular soups swarming with improvised larval motifs.