Sentences with phrase «stored over millennia»

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As we roll the calendar over to the big 2000, people are raising questions about what the next millennium will have in store.

The Pima endured these conditions for millennia, and geneticists believe that, over time, their bodies evolved a «thrifty genotype» — a set of genes that enabled them to subsist on very few calories by increasing the efficiency of their metabolism and storing as much energy as possible as fat.

Professor Zalasiewicz added: «Plastics will continue to be input into the sedimentary cycle over coming millennia as temporary stores — landfill sites — are eroded.

This is how grains have been consumed over the millennia: stored in whole kernel form and milled fresh, full of life and nutrients.

Stored solar energy built up in the oceans over past millennia dictates the temperature of the oceans which then dictate the temperature of the atmosphere.