Sure, I asked (and continue to ask) God for understanding on how to best navigate life as a complex creature, but what vulnerable human being hasn't?
Ottoline is a complex creature with a large personality; she brings a bright presence to the sad household.
But Coen provides a wealth of detail about how his principles could also sculpt a complex creature from a ball of undifferentiated cells, and how they might allow the nervous system to remember and learn from experience, changing an organism's behaviour in response to its environment.
But if getting across a complex creature, charged by many hungers and moods, is the measure of an acting performance, this one falls far short.In the role of the middle-aged lawyer, Jean Gabin misses, too.
Monod's discoveries, Dr. Carroll writes, helped provide the intellectual scaffolding for understanding "one of the greatest mysteries of biology: the development of a complex creature from a single fertilized egg".
In the late 1970s, one of the most challenging puzzles in all of biology was that of embryonic development — how a complex creature formed from a single fertilized egg cell.
These are complex creatures to farm: they are grown on strings; they change sex every year; and the water quality is tightly controlled in order to meet the strict requirements of the renowned AOC Bouzigues label, under which oysters in this area are marketed.
"It was algae at the bottom of the food web that created this burst of energy and nutrients that allowed larger and more complex creatures to evolve". Yale University's Noah Planavsky, whose study earlier this year [Nature link] revealed the phosphate nutrient outburst following the Snowball Earth, says the new revelations are "incredibly important".
However, to what extent can we take these fundamental discoveries and apply them to humans- a vastly more complex creature than mice, worms, or yeast?
Our Forest Service guide, Ron Sutcliffe, began to explain that "the moon is a more complex creature than any planet or star in the sky," because of its eccentric orbit and gravitational interactions with the Earth.
