Sentences with phrase «than one's ancestors»

We're all out to achieve so much more than our ancestors did because, well, life isn't just about survival anymore (thank goodness!).

Although many modern dog breeds are drastically different than their ancestors, that isn't to say that all breeding is bad and must be stopped.

Today's cat has a better chance of living a longer life than its ancestors.

He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.

Another leading theory is that something about the modern virus has changed, allowing it to infect brain cells more efficiently than its ancestors could.

Rather, aided by technology, life has the potential to flourish throughout a cosmos far more grand and inspiring than our ancestors imagined.

Lastly, in our modern fast - paced world with fast food at our fingertips, we're eating much more wheat than our ancestors ever did.

We have a different metabolism than our ancestors did because the use of medications changes our physiological needs.

The problem is that we live in a very different world than our ancestors.

Also, modern day fruit is higher in sugars and lower in fiber than our ancestors had.

Are we more bored than our ancestors despite being wired to the Web?

Maybe to an even greater extent than its ancestor.

This car is far more powerful and quick than its ancestors and much more comfortable, as well.

And because dogs realize people rely on verbal communication, our pets have become much more vocal than their ancestors.

Many of us are in better physical condition than our ancestors were at our age.

Like many other electronic devices, today's outdoor security cameras are smarter than their ancestors.

Unlike old flip phones, however, the new models now come with a more stylish build and far more functionality than their ancestors.

They are all highly processed and consumed in amounts that are about 100 times more than our ancestors did a century ago.

This article has been corrected to reflect that Eastern and red wolves were descendants rather than ancestors of gray wolves and coyotes.

«Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.»

In terms of size, the present day Chihuahua is much smaller than its ancestors, a change thought to be due to the introduction of miniaturized Chinese dogs, such as the Chinese crested dog, into South America by the Spanish.

She suspects that A. sediba may be a dead - end branch of Homo, rather than an ancestor of later species such as H. erectus.

May your torches burn bright, your ale cups run over, and you be a better tenant of the Estate than your Ancestor was.

Maybe so.While slicker and more refined than its ancestors, Alliance and Encore, Medallion shows its heritage.

Like other ThinkPads, this system looks and feels more like a tool than a style statement, even if it is more attractive than its ancestors.

The pace of life has accelerated, and every day we are bombarded with more information and stimulation than our ancestors encountered during entire lifetimes.

Every day you are bombarded with more information and stimulation than your ancestors encountered during entire lifetimes.

In addition, the American version of this cat is a bit larger than its ancestor, but with a slimmer, sleeker look - not as «cobby.»

The bottom line is that although immigrants to the United States today are less likely to have experience with liberal democracies than Americans, they are much more likely to have lived in liberal democracies than the ancestors of most Americans when they first arrived here.

We face the choice earlier and far more starkly than our ancestors.

It is hard to know, historically, whether we are more myopic than our ancestors.

Using feather length as a proxy for nutritional status in birds, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that smaller birds were less well nourished than their ancestors.

Even the groups we came to know as Eskimo — which include the Inupiat and the Yupiks of Alaska, the Canadian Inuit and Inuvialuit, Inuit Greenlanders, and the Siberian Yupiks — have probably seen more changes in their diet in a lifetime than their ancestors did over thousands of years.

Based on analyses of current IQ data, he speculates that we are not born with more mental potential than our ancestors; however, because our modern brain is expected to handle higher - level cognitive tasks from a very young age, our mental capabilities have changed.

In addition, people who live in modern - day nations are not less violent than their ancestors or people who currently live in small - scale hunting, gathering and horticultural societies, Falk said.

It generates more spores than its ancestors, so it spreads farther, faster.

Like the rats, mink and foxes in Novosibirsk, Jensen's jungle fowl are bred to be more (or less) fearful of humans than their ancestors were.

This is really what Darwin was getting at, what we call fitness, how fast organisms can reproduce under certain conditions, and as you can see, the descendants do a better job in this particular environment than their ancestors.

They are 50 percent bigger than their ancestors and Lenski isn't really sure why.

At autopsy, we would've used our brains over our lifetime very differently than our ancestors, and just as a weightlifter has different muscles at autopsy than a swimmer, probably the analytic portions of your brain are enlarged compared to your ancestors while the rote memory portions are not.