Sentences with phrase «species of living things»

As news spread late last month of the death of «Toughie,» the last known Rabbs» fringe - limbed tree frog, I used Twitter to muse on whether media will have to start doing the same thing for species of living things that are on the brink of extinction:

(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.)

The second is the notion of branching evolution, implying the common descent of all species of living things.

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.»

The modern simplification of the world through standardizing culture and personality and through eliminating thousands of species of living things is an impoverishment of God.

Not exact matches

Quite to the contrary, non-believers view this world, and this life, and the future of our species as things that «matter».

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

Where in the Bible does it say God can't use evolution to create and / or change species of both living and non-living things?

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

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

«I think it is very sad that you believe it is acceptable to pretend to know things that you can not know — to think that is how you live your life is messed up to say the least — I hope you realize that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.»

These species would never share the same stretch of ocean in real life, but they have one important thing in common.

What has upset them so much is a patent granted in March which covers a method of identifying almost any living thing by comparing its DNA with samples from known species.

«One thing that consistently prolongs life span in a range of species is a restricted diet,» remarks co-author Rob Brooks of the University of New South Wales.

Visitors to the Cincinnati Zoo would not enter a memorialized tomb of a species, but perhaps view the elegant beauty of North America's greatest species, once unmatched in number by any other living thing.

GMOs, or «genetically modified organisms,» are living things whose genetic material has «incorporated new genes from one species into a completely unrelated species through genetic engineering, optimizing agricultural performance or facilitating the production of valuable pharmaceutical substances from two species,» according to

What we are talking about here are REAL fermented foods that are lacto - fermented, meaning that the starches and sugars in vegetables and fruits are converted into lactic acid by the many species of lactic - acid - producing bacteria present on the surface of all living things.

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.

With nature selecting the fittest living things out of all those on offer, a species will adapt until it becomes «fit for purpose.»

Both girls take solace in a game called «The Classification of Living Things,» where people are judged by their animal characteristics, and the recitation of species, genus, family, order, and class is a calming mechanism.

This book covers a range of exciting topics including: Sharks Lose Teeth All The Time Sharks Are Older Than The Dinosaurs The Whale Shark Is The Largest Fish In The World Sharks» Stomachs Are Incredibly Tough The Megalodon Shark Is The Largest Shark That Ever Existed Sharks Are Cartilaginous Fish Sharks Do Not Prefer To Eat People Sharks Rarely Get Cancer Some Sharks Can Live In Freshwater, Too Sharks Are More Likely To Attack In Shallow Water Shark Fins Are A Delicacy In Some Cultures Sharks Have To Stay Active To Survive Sharks Come In All Shapes And Sizes Sharks Can Hear Very Well A Shark's Sense Of Smell Is Impressive Sharks Can Sense Electrical Impulses, Too Some Sharks Are World Travelers Sharks Sleep While Moving Some Sharks Can Fly Many Sharks Are Endangered Species We loved compiling this book and even learned a few things along the way and hopefully you will toof exciting topics including: Sharks Lose Teeth All The Time Sharks Are Older Than The Dinosaurs The Whale Shark Is The Largest Fish In The World Sharks» Stomachs Are Incredibly Tough The Megalodon Shark Is The Largest Shark That Ever Existed Sharks Are Cartilaginous Fish Sharks Do Not Prefer To Eat People Sharks Rarely Get Cancer Some Sharks Can Live In Freshwater, Too Sharks Are More Likely To Attack In Shallow Water Shark Fins Are A Delicacy In Some Cultures Sharks Have To Stay Active To Survive Sharks Come In All Shapes And Sizes Sharks Can Hear Very Well A Shark's Sense Of Smell Is Impressive Sharks Can Sense Electrical Impulses, Too Some Sharks Are World Travelers Sharks Sleep While Moving Some Sharks Can Fly Many Sharks Are Endangered Species We loved compiling this book and even learned a few things along the way and hopefully you will toOf Smell Is Impressive Sharks Can Sense Electrical Impulses, Too Some Sharks Are World Travelers Sharks Sleep While Moving Some Sharks Can Fly Many Sharks Are Endangered Species We loved compiling this book and even learned a few things along the way and hopefully you will too.

Most of the foods our animal companions eat on a daily basis come out of bags labeled «pet food» that have been specifically formulated for their species, but the idea of forcing them to eat one thing for their entire lives feels cruel.

If we could change just one thing to positively impact the lives of dogs in homes and housed in shelters, it would be this: provide regular, varied, species appropriate enrichment.

having lived with a couple of doggies including one of the red nose lines that organizations still do not want to recognize and the only things that I can do and make a rascism to the offices that do not know how to do anything but shit just like the media and many other hypocrites and countries that forbid bull terriers largely forgets the stories that these dogs experienced and thank them for and a good scapegoat for big crooks and other very hypocritical the dog and the friend and not a killer like our species and the more the hypocrites will forbid the races more new breeds or pseudo new races will be born as with the forbidden pitbull one invents then a pseudo name the american bully but good the list and long ja'ime the dog but especially not the hypocrites like the media and and other administration and some of us who need strong sensation to extract their shit

American Humane is asking animal advocates to pledge to do four simple things to better the lives of animals: buy humanely raised foods with the American Humane Certified ™ seal to support farm animals; adopt one of the more than 6 million animals abandoned to animal shelters each year; watch movies and shows that contain the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end credit supporting more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain and educate us each year; and visit Humane Certified ™ zoos, aquariums, and conservation centers caring for the many endangered and disappearing species of the world.

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.

Species appropriate nutrition is the foundation of health for all living things, and kibble is not appropriate nutrition for a canine.

Some of the things that influence how long your hamster will live are outside of your control — like his genetics and his species.

If any thing else urbanization probably increases the cat population by a little along with huge increases n pollution, traffic, buildings, boys with bee bee guns, pesticides, Urbanization also has the nasty side effect of decreasing natural resources for all species of wild life including birds.

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.

After all, the only thing a dog should do is what all living species do every day: Behave and communicate according to the laws of behavior.

I don't think I need to mention that dogs are not the only living things being shot and killed when people make the mistake of seeing the «breed» and not the «species.»

«One of the important things to get right is to keep the small pet category simple so that it's easy for shoppers to select the food that's appropriate to the species and life stage of the pet.»

For us here at the Gili Shark Conservation project the most magical thing about the beautiful reefs surrounding the three Gili islands is the abundance of juvenile black tip and white tip reef sharks who are consistently sighted in the region making it a unique and important location for these species life cycles by playing the part as a shark nursery.

Hundred species of birds, plants, exotic flowers, Mammals and other living things have been recorded here.

Choices such as choosing to save the life of one species of creature can weigh heavily on the end game and cause problems later on and so decisions that were made really came down as a matter of your morals and how exactly you want things to play out.

And I realized that the genome had been programmed for the first time in 1995, and the things that people were doing with genetics were changing our species, changing the whole identity of who we are, of all living things, and to me it seemed like the most crucial thing — that and planetary pollution were the most critical things that we have to deal with, even though neither one was in the presidential issues that were discussed.

Collectively, Thater's works forge an intricate conceptual framework that speaks to the interdependency amongst species and to the multiplicity of fragile ecologies whose viability will very much define the survival or dictate the extinction of living things.

One day, I believe some great person like Dr. James Hansen will be President of the United States, someone with his clear and coherent, scientifically - organized view of the way the world in which we lives works and of the way our all - too - human species fits within the natural order of living things.

This scientific evidence appears to contradict widely shared and consensually validated, perhaps preternatural thought that, when it comes to human population dynamics, the human species is not part of the natural order of living things and somehow, inexplicably, apparently exempt from the known «laws» of biophysical reality.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

This is how the upbeat new apocalyptic book by science writer Annalee Newitz, the lead editor of the engaging tech / science / entertainment Web site io9, summarizes the strategies that could allow the human species to persist if faced with the kind of epic disruptions to Earth's environment that have periodically erased the majority of living things.

It would be my preference that you would be found to be simply wrong and all the politicians and economists, their benefactors and the talking heads in the mass media actually had an adequate enough understanding of the way the world works and a realistic recognition of the «placement» of the human species within the natural order of living things.

I certainly snort derisively at Malthus, who with the arrogance of a true Christian regards man not as a species, but as a higher order, quite different to any other living thing.

Thank God I had the sense to follow the good advice of my Local 6 colleagues and wear ear plugs when playing the big Broadway shows downtown in S.F. for the years that they were hiring real live string players — now we have a buying public that understands not the difference — chalk it up to the absence of music education, never mind what Plato said about the only two things we really need to study («music and gymnastic»), because, after all, those «useless» subjects just won't get us the rocket scientists who can come up with the formulas so that the richest, most «powerful» of our species can simply blast off and wave Earth «buh - BYE...» after, like hogs at the trough, they've finished plundering, polluting and otherwise raping this once - beautiful paradise..., to which I will now say: «GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAAAAD RUBBISH!»

Whatever the reasons for our spectacular failure to communicate meaningfully and sensibly about what somehow could be real about the workings of the Earth and the placement of the human species within the natural order of living things, these circumstances are incredible and present the human family with a potentially colossal threat to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.

It was bad enough that this irreplaceable species, Raphus cucullatus, was quickly driven to extinction in the 17th century thanks to man's folly — the flightless birds that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean were last seen in 1662 — but the poor things have also suffered the fate of a maligned legacy.

So they're hoping they can do the next best thing: retool the genome of a living bird species so that it gives rise to a passenger pigeon.