Sentences with phrase «sudden appearance»

There is a general pattern in the fossil record of sudden appearance of new forms followed by «stasis» (i.e., absence of basic evolutionary change).

Fassbender plays New York businessman Brandon, a sex addict whose human contact rarely strays beyond prostitutes, internet porn and one - night stands; Carey Mulligan is Sissy, his estranged sister, a singer whose sudden appearance on Brandon's doorstep has devastating consequences for both.

In the annals of pitchmen, Mr. Mopar and Accy fall somewhere between Mr. Clean, whose sudden appearance in a commercial was unnerving but effective, and that inefficacious prevaricator, Joe Isuzu.

Large groupers evasively linger around go - by cleaning stations while turtles and spotted eagle rays make sudden appearances by scurrying over the edges of oncoming canyons.

The Muppets remind you of a forgotten friend whose sudden appearance prompts a bittersweet, genial flash of memories long past.

«The case most frequently insisted on by paleontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down in the Chalk period.»

This fits - and - starts hypothesis [pdf]-- what evolutionary theorists Stephen J. Gould and Niles Eldredge dubbed «punctuated equilibrium» in 1972 — helps explain the seemingly sudden appearance of new species in the fossil record.

Then Jesus» sudden appearance scares them out of their wits — a reaction that would have been ours as well, He shows them his hands and his feet and says, «Touch me and see that it is I myself; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.»

The relatively sudden appearance of these diverse life forms is causing some evolutionary researchers to question the traditional version of Darwin's theory.

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) the cornerstone of the UK's surveillance programme, makes a rather sudden appearance in the bill.

The improbably sudden appearance of Howard The Duck.

As the reasons for Isa's sudden appearance become less clear with each passing day, she is viewed with increasing suspicion by the tight - knit women of Cradle Cross who come to see her as the cause of the town's accelerating misfortunes and ultimately fear her as a witch.

But Airi's sudden appearance squashes any chance of a romantic moment.

Surprises, like Gabe Newell's sudden appearance announcing Portal 2 for PS3, or Miyamoto springing from behind a screen, are always good for a Pathos boost as well.

China made its first sudden appearance on the Bitcoin stage in April, when the country became the first to overtake the United States in the number of Bitcoin - Qt software downloads; the country maintains second place on that particular chart to this day.

Bolstered by the cruciferous veggie's sudden appearance on trendy, seasonal menus around Philadelphia,...

Their modelling showed that moderately accelerated evolution was sufficient to explain the seemingly sudden appearance of many groups of advanced animals in the fossil record during the Cambrian explosion.

Based on H5N8's sudden appearance in Korea and the genetic similarity of isolates from poultry and migratory birds, a governmental investigative committee has «tentatively concluded that [the virus] was likely to have been introduced by migratory birds,» Kim says.

To illustrate the fossil problem, here is what a particularly vigorous advocate of Darwinism, Oxford Zoology Professor (and popular author) Richard Dawkins, says in The Blind Watchmaker about the «Cambrian explosion,» i.e., the apparently sudden appearance of the major animal forms at the beginning of the Cambrian era:

This is especially true when it comes to creative thinking, a spontaneous art that has long been praised for its sudden appearances in the minds of our world's greatest thinkers.

On the fifth night, when the boat was out of fuel and passengers were down to their final rations, Tan, though she had been warned not to speak while above deck, couldn't resist remarking to her mother on the sudden appearance through the clouds of a wide patch of brilliant stars.

Ms. Crockatt's sudden appearance on the right - wing talk show has everything to do with her campaign's slip in the polls, which is seen by many to be a result of her campaign's connections to the right - wing Wildrose Party.

«On the sudden appearance of groups of Allied Species in the lowest known fossilferous strata: There is another and allied difficulty, which is much graver.

There was no atmosphere of expectancy or even of hope, and several times his sudden appearance struck his followers not with reassurance and joy but with a very natural terror.

Little details — from the tight, crowded ally - ways to the heaps of trash in the rivers, to the bells around the children's feet, to the sudden appearance of the magnificent Taj — perfectly captured India in all it ugliness and glory, color and noise.

In the wake of Ruby Ridge, Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing, public officials and private citizens have pondered the sudden appearance of the citizen militias.

There are many reasonable explinations for the sudden appearance on fossils.

i asked a couple of them today how is it the «Cambrian Explosion» manifested itself with the sudden appearance of hundreds and hundreds of animals all within a blink of an eye on the «evolutionary» timescale without any antecedents at all in the fossil record.

A sudden appearance of life from no life, and of mind from no mind, would be, in the words of Sewall Wright, «sheer magic.»

To the conventionally trained philosopher, the sudden appearance of the drunken Athenian general Alcibiades just after Socrates finishes his speech seems to be little more than a way, perhaps a rather clumsy way, for Plato to bring the dialogue to an end.

Can we be happy about this sudden appearance of the Christ event?

Our sudden appearance on this planet.

For example, in an interview in 2008, evolutionary biologist Stuart Newman discussed the need for a new theory of evolution that could explain the sudden appearance of novel forms of life.

Anything is possible, I believe, including a sudden appearance of the risen Lord.

But the context in which life made its sudden appearance should not be imagined as a kind of chaotic soup of chemicals.

Stassis and sudden appearance of new species fully formed 5.

On your people, your blessing»» he writes that «the sudden appearance of a national perspective at the conclusion of an exclusively first - person poem looks odd.