I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. From LearnThat.org. [Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)]
He goes back to the first link, or to what he calls primordial generation. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
The issue was exponential growth in primordial populations. From Wordnik.com. [An Ancient Time Frame] Reference
Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen it distinctively. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
It’s not like these factors manifest themselves in primordial physical traits. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Discrimination | spazeboy] Reference
Traces of life have been detected in theLongmynd beds beneath Barrande's so-called primordial zone. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life] Reference
Traces of life have been detected in the Longmynd beds beneath Barrande's so-called primordial zone. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
Traces of life have been detected in the Longmynd beds, beneath Barrande's so-called primordial zone. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
It is what Virginia Woolf called the primordial ooze – that fertile clay that we make things out of as writers. From Wordnik.com. [I Love It When A Plan Comes Together at SF Novelists] Reference
These black holes are called primordial because they were created a fraction of a second after the beginning of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for A Primordial Dimension] Reference
I wonder if this is some kind of primordial way to make sure she doesn't fall off of her monkey mama's back. From Wordnik.com. [wendchymes Diary Entry] Reference
Commission - a question of "primordial" importance, Amnesty spokeswoman Judit Arenas told reporters in Geneva. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The word "primordial" pops up frequently in "Voices," and it's tempting to read this early book as a Dickian ur-text. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Hubble peers back 13.2 billion years, finds 'primordial' galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
Newman continued to look at the nurses and babies; they imparted to the scene a kind of primordial, pastoral simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [The American] Reference
Eden was a kind of primordial "bubble" wasn't it, a protective environment where danger lurked behind at least one of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Wake Forest University News] Reference
"primordial," or "oldest" strata, it would seem that they were specially adapted to make progress. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution An Investigation and a Critique] Reference
But maybe we need a new language to express primordial truths. From Wordnik.com. [Kabir Helminski: Does Religion Cause War?] Reference
Which primordial band is going to rock the Super Bowl halftime show?. From Wordnik.com. [The NFL: What You Need to Know] Reference
It feels futuristic and primordial, optimistic and daunting, all at once. From Wordnik.com. [Marina Cashdan: Why Size Doesn't Matter: "Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense" at the MoMA] Reference
It had been ages since a girl had provoked such a potent, primordial reaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference
This refers to the primordial light that assisted Him in creating the universe and its fullness. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp: Retrieving G-d's Hidden Rays of Light: A Global Partnership Is Emerging] Reference
"You can't blink," she told Gibson repeatedly, as though this were a primordial truth of wise governance. From Wordnik.com. [When Atheists Attack] Reference
To understand the cosmos, scientists must understand how it developed from those first primordial particles. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand Experiment] Reference
In short, human beings experience evil as primordial, something that exists outside as well as inside themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Do We Need Satan?] Reference
"" In these times of stress, despair and frustration, people become increasingly communal and primordial, '' he says. From Wordnik.com. [Flames Of Faith] Reference
The problem is that Lorena's primordial act also sounds a lot like the handiwork of a bedroom vigilante -- simple revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Bobbitt Fever] Reference
Escobar was a progenitor of the new crime family, but by the time he died he had become a dinosaur, sinking in his own primordial muck. From Wordnik.com. [Death On The Spot] Reference
When they started pointing their friends in my direction, the charity stopped and the primordial development of a drug dealer had begun. From Wordnik.com. [My Life as a Drug Dealer] Reference
The temperature differences seen today, then, actually reflect "tiny density fluctuations in the primordial soup of particles," says Hu. From Wordnik.com. [How It All Started] Reference
Looking beyond the organs of generation, Blair was also impressed by men who resembled titans, the primordial giants of Greek mythology. From Wordnik.com. [What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?] Reference
About how it might show the way an abrupt environmental change makes life fizzle out -- or at least stop evolving beyond primordial ooze. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Life] Reference
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