Sentences with phrase «species inhabiting our planet»

We believe that anywhere from 5 million to 100 million species inhabit the planet, of which science has identified about 2 million.

With over 250 species inhabiting our planet, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know and more.

Not exact matches

If someone were to create this planet, universe, and all the life that exists, they wouldn't waste their time creating 350,000 different species of beetles, or 12,000 different species of roundworm, or the countless number of other species that have inhabited the earth.

Humanity would then stagnate and most advanced species on the only known inhabited planet in the Universe would fail to fulfill our true destiny which is to go out among the stars and explore the Universe the way we should be doing.

If a human toddler is wiser than a planet of stone, but there are probably billions of planets inhabited by sentient beings, how can anyone assert that we are the «center of the universe,» or god's pet species?

If you want, you can custom build a planet inhabited only by species created by you and your friends.

This has led to an explosion of knowledge about microbiomes, as scientists use these tools to catalog the stunning diversity of species that inhabit the planet and study their genes.

We consider the entire spectrum of our species, all dimensions of the communities that surround us and all aspects of the planet we inhabit.

This is one part of a series of lessons focussing around the question «Why do human beings, the so - called most intelligent species that inhabit the planet, commit mass murder / genocide?

This is part of a series of lessons focussing on the key question: Why do human beings, the so - called most intelligent species that inhabit the planet, turn to mass murder?

The outcome will determine the quality of our species» journey and will leave an indelible mark, for better or worse, on the planet we inhabit.

On the other hand, humanity is unique among the literally countless number of species that have inhabited this planet through the ages, in that we have the capability to push back... to exert influence on our surroundings... to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!

If we keep doing as we do now and getting what we get now, is it possible that the relatively small, evidently finite, noticeably frangible planet we inhabit will soon reach a point when it is no longer possible for Earth's resources and ecosystem services to sustain either life as we know it or the human species?

There's a hopeful, enduring, possibly wishful thread of thought that I've been exploring for a couple of decades: various visions of the human species eventually overcoming its tribal and myopic nature and embracing the reality that it is in fact a single, if variegated, community inhabiting a shared, if planet - size, home.

If the relatively small planet we inhabit is finite, then the endless consumption, production and propagation activities of so dominant a species as Homo sapiens can not continue much longer, let alone indefinitely.

A variety of thinkers in the last couple of centuries have foreseen a time when the human species eventually overcomes its tribal and myopic tendencies and embraces the reality that it is in fact a single, if variegated, community inhabiting a shared, if planet - size, home.