Sentences with phrase «species of life on this planet»

The fact that we have DNA in common with every single species of life on this planet is not a coincidence, it is because we came from a common source at some point or another.

Not exact matches

additionally, most things on this planet will kill you and 99 % of the species that ever lived are extinct.

I have lots of self - esteem, but I don't place myself so far above all other life on this planet by thinking my species is «special» and master over all else.

The new story of all life on this planet has undermined the permanence of any species, including humans.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

So, God gave his children, the Humans, one species of millions, the ability to rise above all reason to destroy the planet they live on while simultaneously destroying themselves with all of the diseases they generate through their greed, gluttony and careless (or carefree) disregard for the environment.

Enough monkeys got weeded out to make me a member one of the smartest, most lethal, most cunning and survivable species on the planet we rule, I'm not about to reduce my intelligence by assuming some magical space daddy will make my life better if i say its name enough.

And the best sci - fi show on television today is Battlestar Galactica, a «reimagining» of a short - lived late - 1970s series about the last remnants of humanity fleeing a genocide perpetrated by their own creations — a race of humanoid robots called Cylons — and searching for our species» last refuge, a mythical planet called Earth.

Through Cormier, Prasher learned about a species of jellyfish living in the cold waters of the North Pacific, Aequorea victoria, which emitted a green glow and was one of the most intensely bioluminescent creatures on the planet.

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

And all at once to look on an adventure that is not the adventure of your own life but the adventure of a species, and the adventure of a planet.

We are just a species of ape living on a smallish planet orbiting an unremarkable star in one galaxy among billions in a universe that had been around for 13.8 billion years without us.

To assess the situation of the Iberian lynx and other felid species that live in the wild on our planet, a team of Brazilian and Spanish scientists has reviewed the scientific literature that exists on the main threat for these mammals: the loss and fragmentation of their habitats.

Last year researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia released the most rigorous estimate yet of how many species live on our planet: 8.7 million, not counting bacteria.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

The end Permian extinction saw around 90 % of species go extinct, and it left tropical regions on the planet lethally hot, too hot for complex life to survive.

Did you know that there are single - celled organisms that produce up to 90 % of the Earth's oxygen, help purify the ocean, are the food source for some of the longest - living species on the planet and can reproduce multiple times per day?

This ground - breaking documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species.

Of all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tacklOf all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tacklof scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tacklof food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tacklof the future will be too big for any organization to tackle.

The opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did in its first screen appearance, a scene in a cantina where many strata of society and species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that sets with the same desolate glow on a desert planet that we first saw on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) lived there.

In telling three parallel stories, Jonze and Kaufman encompass each of Kaufman's (and subsequently our) «eureka» moments, plus the entire scope of life on the planet, of Darwin's revelations about species (including a not - very - subtle glimpse of the food chain), and of the necessity for two voices to reconstruct a dial tone — each apparent discursion resolving itself in the primacy of passion in its multifoliate expressions: sex, ambition, obsession, and at the root of it all, creation.

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And when you think of how so many species go extinct every year, this movie becomes even more valuable, as it is an important reminder that we humans aren't living alone on this planet.

Human nature is inscribed on the biophysical laws of life and death; which forces us to consider our relationship with the planet Earth and our destiny as a species.

Versión castellano Human nature is inscribed on the biophysical laws of life and death; which forces us to consider our relationship with the planet Earth and our destiny as a species.

... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy.

Likening the earth to an ark carrying millions of species through space, Mason calls on readers to become modern - day Noahs, doing what they can to preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

Due to its separation from the mainland and the late settlement of European colonists approximately 200 years ago, Tasmania is home to a unique ecosystem featuring ancient forests and species of wildlife that live nowhere else on the planet.

Every living thing on the planet will naturally work to attain greater resources / mating opportunities, etc... In countless laboratory experiments, using a variety of species, from mice to primates, animals who were trained to work for rewards, continued to do so, even when given free access to another food supply.

I was, and still am, filled with wonder that a member of another species taught me about unconditional love and the interconnectedness of all living things on this planet.

These include respect for all life, an understanding of and appreciation for difference and diversity, empathy, responsibility, and an awareness of our role as the species that has the greatest impact on the planet» explains Ball.

It is here where Charles Darwin formulated much of his theory of evolution, a stunning breakthrough in unraveling the mysteries of life on planet Earth, the origins of living species, and natural selection.

It is considered the richest body of water on the planet, biologically speaking, because it has more than 3,000 species of marine life.

There are many reasons why divers love nudibranch; they are found the world over, they are rewarding to find, they are one of the most varied species of marine life on the planet, they are...

The game takes place on a Deiland, a beautifully designed living planet featuring a variety of species of plant life, a night and day cycle and even the occasional meteor shower!

(Per Murray, within the first night of the game's release, players had already discovered over 10 million species of living things — more than we know about on our own planet.)

Some species can take a while to take hold and mature, but hopefully soon enough there will be new homes for monarch caterpillars to start their majestic caterpillar lives and go on to become some of the most remarkable insects on the planet.

I once used the title «Puberty on the Scale of a Planet» to convey how the human species seems to be going through the same awkward transition we all experience as individuals in moving from often - reckless teen ebullience to the more measured life strategies of adulthood.

over... way over 90 percent of all the species that have ever lived — EVER LIVED — on this planet are lived — EVER LIVED — on this planet are LIVED — on this planet are gone.

I could easily see how the current focus of the synthetic biologists will affect our lives as humans very directly, but how will it evolve and affect the rest of the species on our planet?

I've learned on this blog that such education is a strong indicator of the individual's dedication to living in harmony with other humans and species on our planet.

Our environmental choices are aesthetic choices, we can live without all of the endangered species and habitats on the planet but I (and many others) recognize the intrinsic and inalienable value of those species and habitats and will fight for their preservation.

A staggering 10,000 species of moths may live in Madidi National Park — considered the most biodiverse protected area on the planet.

Not necessarily human life, of course, but perhaps we can rest assured that we don't have the power to destroy most life on the planet, or even our own species — only the stability of our own civilizations.

We are a young species with a short memory and only slowly - dawning awareness of three vital pieces of the challenge of meshing our aspirations with life on Earth: the planet's dynamics, our capacity to jog the system and — perhaps most importantly — the distorting mix of rational, emotional and instinctual processes in our brains that shape our perceptions and actions.

I encourage you to slow down, too, and to celebrate this remarkable moment in our history as a species, as we slowly come to grips with the predicament of trying to mesh infinite aspirations with life on a finite planet.

In any other circumstance on this planet, monoculture or over population of a non human species is always discouraged or addressed as a liability when that species effects our lives adversely.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species.

No, we are talking about a certain species of snail that science said without a doubt was no longer here on the planet we all live on.