Early Greek science postulated the existence of a primordial element as the foundation of the material universe. |
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Sweet-smelling fingers of smoke twisted and curled into the air, filling the sanctuary with a primordial mist. |
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Hunters are even proselytizing women, our primordial gatherers, so that the whole family can go a-shooting. |
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It takes considerable clarity of purpose to delve beyond mythic images and reach the primordial roots. |
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First, and in keeping with Plato's Symposium, the hermaphrodite represents the perfect wholeness of the primordial androgyne. |
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He was thus in between the primordial hydrogen hypothesis of William Prout and the nuclear atoms of Ernest Rutherford. |
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It is a schizoid text of herstory, and the moments in the texts when she aspires towards primordial ideological bullying are way off the mark. |
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They more or less figured out the whole story, including predictions for primordial nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background. |
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Evidence from both the cosmic microwave background and primordial nucleosynthesis gives tight bounds on how much ordinary matter there is. |
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Although the primordial plasma became transparent to photons after the universe cooled, the photons did not travel unhindered afterwards. |
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However, the desire to preserve the solar system in its primordial condition is not only anti-human, but anti-life as well. |
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This ideologically sets the country apart from other feudal, traditional, theocratic, primordial or monarchal systems of government. |
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After a second or two the rabbits tumble into the light, their convulsive movements expressive of a primordial terror. |
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There is a dialogue between Yama and the boy about the primordial Fire and sacrificial rituals to attain to heavenly life. |
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A troop of howler monkeys began to stir in the treetops just below us, letting loose a loud, primordial bellow. |
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Evolution crawls out of the primordial ooze from whence it sprang onto your DVD player. |
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Was the idea of religion existent in the primordial ooze that some believe created life? |
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Their strange and steamy spectacle recalls the primordial ooze from where we all came. |
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So, it seems, the Earth's primordial soup was primed with the monomers for making the polymeric components of primitive life. |
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Unable to contemplate the truth of what we do, we extract from our fathomless collective guilt a story of primordial innocence. |
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In this story a bird is sent down to earth to dry out some of the mud in the primordial slush so that islands can be formed for the Ainu. |
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A family of prehistoric dimwits go about their daily business, occasionally interrupted by dinosaur attacks and other such primordial dangers. |
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The lander will return close-up pictures of the comet's nucleus, drill into the dark organic crust, and sample the primordial ices and gases. |
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This longing for joy is not a vestigial structure in a once functional lobe of our primordial brains that has become atrophied due to disuse. |
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At the beginning of meiosis, each primordial sex cell has paired homologous chromosomes, just like any other eukaryotic cell. |
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Gentry had discovered that granites contain microscopic coloration halos produced by the radioactive decay of primordial polonium. |
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The entire basis for evolution is that, untold millions of years ago, life began spontaneously from primordial pond scum. |
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Its mission is to study the primordial soup of our solar system, which is sealed away inside comets. |
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Within a few steps this primordial soup gave way to mosses, ferns and damp rainforest before opening up to show a variety pollinating plants. |
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All of the stars, galaxies, and large-scale structure in our universe may have started as tiny quantum fluctuations in the primordial soup. |
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So inspired was he, Miller set about recreating the primordial soup in the laboratory. |
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Suddenly you can visualise your ancestors emerging from this salty primordial soup. |
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The science of primordial energy relates the electricity of macrocosm and microcosm. |
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By depicting workers in a style that celebrated their primordial nature, the artist may have genuinely been expressing his political sympathies. |
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Researchers discovered that they could develop primordial germ cells from embryonic stem cells. |
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Her immense wooden sculptures refer to a primitive form of life in primordial worlds. |
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Life seems to have originated in the primordial oceans that covered the Earth four billion years ago. |
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I'd never been to the rainforest, that forbidding, almost mythic wilderness with its undiscovered species, primordial vistas, and exotic tribes. |
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Whatever it was, I felt the primordial feeling of tears stinging at my eyes, and my breathing grew sharp and cutting, much colder than before. |
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Water access is so primordial, the United Nations already recognizes it as a fundamental human right. |
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The concept of humanity initiated by Heidegger, which bases phenomenology on primordial anxiety, will be abandoned as fundamentally mistaken. |
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There is nothing superfluous about his performance, in which primordial emotions are barely contained by his skin. |
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It validates the most basic human instinct to return to our primordial source of warmth, comfort, security. |
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During human fetal development, the primordial germ cells migrate to and are incorporated within the developing ovary and are termed oogonia. |
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Embryonic stem cells are primordial cells with the ability to morph into any type of cell in the body. |
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But not all scientists agree that life evolved from chemicals in the primordial soup. |
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My characters drift back into the primordial soup from which they so recently emerged. |
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It has taken three to four billion years for our species to emerge since primitive life-forms first arose in the primordial soup. |
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Simultaneously, he is also echoing an image of the primordial cosmogonie child identity of the primal cosmic man, the universal procreator. |
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Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx. |
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Marshmallow, which grows in the primordial bogs and swamplands, was harvested and used to fashion these crude idols, which were then devoured to cure thigh ache. |
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He scoured the gaunt landscape as if his primordial authority was enough to plunge the lid of the monochrome building down to floor level to allow him a cowardly escape. |
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Melding together ultra-heavy red-meat rawness with gooey primordial growls, the founding members of the band have struck upon a winning combination. |
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The primordial concept of mauri has a similar, but distinct, function. |
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The Early Earth, scientists believe, was subjected to a bombardment by comets and asteroids, and heated to such a degree that its primordial oceans evaporated. |
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Sliding around beneath the surface of Los Angeles is something dark, primordial, and without form. |
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The issue of the Special Creation of Life by a Higher Intelligence versus spontaneous generation from a primordial soup has been the subject of debate for many years. |
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Of course one is tempted to speculate on the primordial sound that created the universe, the om, from which, in the Indian tradition, the whole of creation emanated. |
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This was no ordinary fear, but a primordial fear that came from the very roots of humanity itself, the fear that formed the basis of the self-preservation instinct. |
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This is because fear of small creatures that scuttle about on four or more legs is a much more ancient, primordial fear, going straight back to caveman days. |
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What humans choose to do with this shapeless primordial stuff leaking through the cracks can often be almost comical. |
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The void evoked in the first few bars is bleak and barren, chilly vibrato-less strings and coldly gleaming brass, with winds bubbling away like some kind of primordial soup. |
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Imagine the primordial fear a competing biped species produces. |
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Prior to that time, particles of energy, photons, and particles of matter, protons and electrons, were all mixed together in a kind of hot primordial soup. |
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At the back of your mind is the idea that a lightning flash triggered a replicative system in the primordial soup, and suddenly the show was on the road. |
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The mere sight of her would cause his primordial rage to subside. |
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Or rather, they allow all of these to flourish, instead of forcing us back into the last-ditch defence of tightly defined, monolithic, primordial allegiances. |
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The idea of a primordial, ineradicable Guilt is not original to Heidegger. |
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Jurisdiction and natural justice invoke the primordial instinct of courts to second guess other tribunals and thus defeat the greatest benefit of arbitration, its finality. |
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It can be savage, unpredictable, ecstactic, indestructibly powerful, pleasurable, a kind of primordial music that is beyond the mere phenomenology of representation. |
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The dry wash is dusty and shouldn't be attempted after rain, but the view of what was once a primordial lake bed, particularly at sunset, is worth the trip. |
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Like a chunk of glacier that has somehow run aground in the middle of downtown, it evokes the unconquerably primordial nature of the Pacific Northwest's landscape. |
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Jung argued that horror touches on primordial images in the collective unconscious. |
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These cells, about 40 m in diameter and termed primary oocytes, are enclosed within a single layer of squamous cells, forming a primordial follicle. |
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By now a calm had settled over him, a kind of primordial survival instinct, he believes. |
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The ocean, besides symbolising primordial roots, relates to instinctive wisdom, secrets, and knowledge that lies buried within the depths of consciousness. |
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The marriage ceremony was given primordial significance over folkloric pre-marriage engagement rituals and wild charivaris. |
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Its slow-burning moan sounds like a grunge group trying to pull themselves out of the primordial soup. |
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The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people. |
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Few places on God's green earth are as imbued with primordial magic as those bordering the phantasmagoric waters of Fundy. |
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The Pope is ex officio head of state of Vatican City, functions dependent on his primordial function as bishop of the diocese of Rome. |
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If truly primordial, these waves were born as quantum fluctuations in gravity itself. |
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With the longest half lives are the 32 primordial radionuclides that have survived from the creation of the Solar System. |
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Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son of Aether and Gaia. |
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A possible exception, however, is the burst of gamma rays emitted in the last stage of the evaporation of primordial black holes. |
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According to this ideology, races are primordial, natural, enduring and distinct. |
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With the exception of wurtzite, all these other minerals were formed by weathering of the primordial zinc sulfides. |
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Creation myths particularly, take place in a primordial age when the world had not achieved its later form. |
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They are those that contain 34 radionuclides that date before the time of formation of the solar system, and are known as primordial nuclides. |
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He is rather drawn to figures in pain, to the primordial, and to gloom. |
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The United Nations rapid reengagement to relaunch the political process in Syria is primordial. |
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In humans, primordial germ cells or oogonium are the first stage of development into ovums, or mature eggs. |
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The two contend that primordial RNA would have contained HMU at many sites where modern RNA has uracil. |
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Tribes also privilege primordial social ties, are clearly bounded, homogeneous, parochial, and stable. |
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The hearth participates in the symbolism of the altar and a central garden participates in the symbolism of primordial paradise. |
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Genninomas, which are fairly treatable, arise from primordial germ cells that fail to migrate correctly in embryogenesis. |
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Traditional Arab houses are also laid out as a square surrounding a central fountain that evokes a primordial garden paradise. |
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The ylem was the primordial flux of neutrons out of which all else emerged. |
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Bone morphogenic protein 4 as a follicle survival factor can promote primordial follicle development. |
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It contains ellipsoidal primordial facies, complete dolomitization and vuggy porosity of touching-vug type. |
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In Funar, people's relationship with the landscape involves diverse processes of primordial consubstantiality and subsequent differentiation. |
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Meanwhile, men are attracted to the nubility of women because it's a signal of fertility in the primordial swamp. |
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The primordial testis takes shape and the epididymis with the vas deferens arise from the mesonephric duct at 8 weeks. |
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Both PAX2 and PAX8 are expressed in the primordial tissues of wolffian and mullerian ducts. |
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It's just the wrong solution, which, left to its own devices, will ultimately put us back in the primordial soup we crawled out of many years ago. |
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In order for primordial black holes to form in such a dense medium, there must be initial density perturbations that can then grow under their own gravity. |
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The Purusa Sukta hymn in the Rigveda, Hinduism's most ancient scripture, describes metaphorically the origin of humankind from the primordial sacrifice of the cosmic Person. |
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He gets the scientific community, the New Agers, and the media interested in the rich life in the primordial ooze that the retreating tides reveal. |
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Searches for such flashes have proven unsuccessful and provide stringent limits on the possibility of existence of low mass primordial black holes. |
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The primordial Law is that which, in regulating the alliance, superposes the reign of culture onto that of a nature given over to the law of coupling. |
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Their report, which will appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that radio galaxies may serve as beacons for finding other primordial groupings of galaxies. |
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War, as violence, can be distinguished into war between states, and civil war, in which case class struggle is, according to antimilitarists theorists, a primordial component. |
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In reality all species of mushrooms take several days to form primordial mushroom fruit bodies, though they do expand rapidly by the absorption of fluids. |
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Before the interview in fact Klara's former lover, Nick Shay, observes that the planes Klara uses are covered in a sort of primordial soup of paint. |
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Already, according to one report, Rosetta has found unusual levels of heavy hydrogen, indicating that primordial comets didn't provide the Earth's oceans with water. |
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Radioactive primordial nuclides found in the Earth are residues from ancient supernova explosions that occurred before the formation of the solar system. |
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The team tried mixing cyanamide and glycolaldehyde, two chemicals probably present in the primordial soup, to make a molecule with a bit of the sugar and the base. |
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The accretionary processes that formed full-size planets in our primordial solar system occurred much more slowly farther from the sun, where Uranus and Neptune now dwell. |
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Some of the wealthiest in our land, having crawled out of the privileged primordial soup and wing collars of Eton, now form the UK's ruling classes. |
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