Sentences with phrase «species means the effects»

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Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

In order that the end of Mankind may be deferred sine die we are asked to believe in a species that will drag on and spread itself indefinitely; which means, in effect, that it would run down more and more.

Matt, in the article Dr. Amy says «THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THOSE CLAIMS»: maybe I'm wrong, but to my non-native understanding, this sentence doesn't necessarily mean «there is no evidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire species».

This means that by studying the effect of genetic changes during the domestication of dogs we can also learn about our own species» adaptations to the environment and related diseases.

Probiotics mean specific strains which have been characterized to show specific human health effects, while other strains of the same species may not have them and in fact probably don't.

Darren Aronofsky's preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning — a curious mix of deep - think and makeup effects that goes back to his black - and - white debut feature, Pi — grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self - destruction, its only prophets being madmen.

This means that Scott is not designing weaponry of an alien species, and instead of designing over-detailed glamorous animations or weaponry with lots of particle effects and moving parts.

The sculptures and photographs by Elaine Bradford and the works on paper by Megan Greene take Darwin's theory of phenotype (or the visible characteristics of an animal that result from the combined effects of the genes and the environment) even further by incorporating human fashion and adornment as a means for a species to adapt to its surroundings.

The effect of the show is meant to manifest itself in the range of emotion exhibited by the carefully selected works — the sense of nostalgia in Qureshi's plaintive cast concrete palm fronds from Mecca, Kley's unassuming but gorgeous cinerary urn for a dear friend, Strobert's aesthetically dazzling primer of her own body's extents, and Paine's bemused diagrams all offer traces and referents of the human experience, happily or sadly at the tail end of our unique presence as a highly evolved primate species on the earth.

Oysters are a keystone species which means they have a disproportionate positive effect on their ecosystem.

It would also mean less support to agriculture, as intact natural ecosystems have important effects on hydrology and on the viability of natural (and possibly semi-domesticated) pollinators, as well as tending to stabilize populations of pest species.

Veron notes that acifidication may cause its worst effects by 2030 - 2050, meaning that by 2050, the deck will be stacked entirely against corals and we'll see them disappear from the planet, and along with them, a wealth of species.

That means we can now get vastly more energy from far less land; with far fewer impacts on environmental quality, biodiversity and endangered species; and with none of the nasty effects on food supplies, food prices and world hunger that biofuel lunacy entails.

In my book Requiem for a Species I wrote: «In short, a revived democracy is the only means of fighting the effects of climate change in a humane way.»

Photographer Sam McMillan, who took this wonderful photo in Morro Bay, California, explains: «Sea otters are a keystone species, meaning their role in their environment has a greater effect than other species.