Sentences with phrase «spread over the planet»

But as my A.S.U. colleague Kim Hill has put it, Even before the invention of agriculture, human communities may have eventually numbered around 70 million individuals... as Homo sapiens spread over the planet more broadly than any other large vertebrate.

But this past year Guillermo Rougier, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, described turtle fossils from Argentina (including the one shown here) that were also 210 million years old — indicating that turtles had already spread over the planet by then.

As plants spread over the planet, they absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere and released oxygen (PDF).

Sensitivity is a meaningless average, because global warming will not be spread over the planet in an even fashion, any more that it will rise each year by a small increment.

Not exact matches

Countless smash - ups over the millennia spread around enough of these exotic metals that when our planet formed, they were baked right into its crust.

I have now spent slightly over four decades on this planet and my love of McDonald's has spread to my two children.

Neither, it's all fiction / fairy tales / myths created, spread and practiced by delusional, irrational and weak minded folk all over the planet lacking capacity for critical thinking.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly body on which it was born.

Over a period of about 270 days, we watched this thundering, lightning - producing behemoth be born as a small disturbance in the northern hemisphere, then grow, spread clear around the planet until its tail met its head, and eventually fade.

«We are more numerous and spread over more parts of the globe, but we haven't lived on this planet very long.»

Over time, the rings spread out, and the icy bits that drifted farthest from Saturn eventually reached distances where their gravitational attraction for each other could overcome the planet's tidal forces that tended to rip them apart — a process that is still happening today, according to observations by the Cassini spacecraft now touring the Saturn system.

Second, combining the idea that large animals are disproportionately important for the spread of nutrients with the natural rule that animal size increases over time, means the planet may have a Gaia - like mechanism of increasing fertility over time.

Over the past decade the former vice president has trained thousands of climate leaders who are now spreading awareness about global warming in communities around the planet.

Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.

As you would expect from the largest archipelago on the planet, Indonesia has an incredibly diverse landscape and culture, with over 300 languages spoken, the world's 2nd largest tropical forest, 130 active volcanoes and 1,000's of spectacular temples spread across the islands.

The campaign is spread over four planets and the space above them.

Teilhard called the human - created world the noosphere, which slowly spread like a skin over the planet, like the biological skin (the biosphere) that preceded it.

The extent of forested area on our planet has diminished by 50 % over the last 40 years while the deserts are spreading ever faster.

It certainly changes the surface area, so that the energy being released by the planet is now spread over a larger surface area on the shell.

Simulations aim to understand how different irradiance spectra affect a planet's habitability and climate dynamics and its radiance signature, due to the spectral absorbance properties of different atmospheres and different surface spectral albedos resulting from the gradual spread of life over land and adaptations of photosynthetic pigments to other light regimes.

They are the leading dental public health team in Australia with graduate students and Fellows now spread all over the planet.