Sentences with phrase «through biological evolution»

Finding purpose pervasive throughout the individual entities of the universe, we ask what permanent value has the whole of the evolution of the cosmos from cosmic evolution through biological evolution to social evolution.

Not exact matches

The evidence is that biological evolution has proceeded continuously since that distant time by evolution of populations of living organisms through natural selection of best procreators.

In his pre-natal existence the embryonic person passes through various stages remarkably similar to those by which the whole race has developed by biological evolution.

Without the process of biological evolution, which produced the human brain, there would be no sanctified souls; and similarly, without the evolution of collective thought, through which alone the plenitude of human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?

Biological evolution has a direction that can be clearly charted through all of the stages in material, organic, and cultural creation.

He has instead made a perfect universe in which His laws are precisely obeyed, in and through which He, as the ultimate cause and the law - giver, controls and directs material and biological evolution.

Following upon this I argued that biological evolution is not only being extended beneath our gaze through the development of the human social group, but that it gives the impression of rebounding upon itself.

Because it did so (and although in a sense, I must repeat, this ray was only one attempt among many) the whole essential stream of terrestrial biological evolution is now flowing through the breach which has been made.

It is clear, however — and confirmed through an examination of his Harvard lectures from this period (see below)-- that the «evolution» to which Whitehead refers here is not macroscopic biological or geological evolution, but the transition from the immediate past to the novel subjective experience of the immediate present.

While biological evolution of adaptive species may have occurred through a series of localized internal (or non - purposive) teleologies, the concrescence or bringing together of physical and biological processes corresponds to both a globally internalized (non-purposive) and globally externalized (purposive) teleology of the observable universe.

Drawing on my background in Biochemistry, it struck me that a bill's passage through parliament can be likened to biological evolution, which proceeds by the accumulation of mutations.

«We were able to analyze one specimen collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1860 in Raja Ampat during his travel through the «Malay Archipelago,»» says Guillaume Besnard, a researcher at the Laboratory of Evolution and Biological Diversity at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

«These findings demonstrate a single origin of gills that likely corresponds with a key stage in vertebrate evolution: when some of our earliest relatives transitioned from filtering particles out of water pumped through static bodies to actively swimming through the oceans,» says lead author Dr Andrew Gillis, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge's Department of Zoology, and a Whitman Investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, US.

In essence, it is proposed that the endocannabinoid system, selected by 600 million years of evolution, is a central mediator of biological harm reduction through its homeostatic activities.

In order to understand how and what to feed cats, it is necessary to understand how the nutritional requirements of the cat have developed through the process of biological evolution.

In this exhibition, New Peace takes form through the imagined - trappings of a cult that worships matter and believes that reality and its cosmic, biological, and cultural evolutions exist to create the greatest variation of form possible in the universe, and for matter to experience all variations of itself.

The questions about origin of life and life shaping the earth (and vice versa) are integral to an overarching framework of how energy flow through the earth system drives the engine of evolution (physical, chemical, biological, and social).

At that time, evolution — the long - tested scientific theory that varieties of life forms emerged through biological processes like natural selection and mutation — was patchily taught.

Stress is a biological fight - or - flight response, instilled in us through thousands of years of evolution and is triggered by the emotional control center of the brain.