Sentence examples for ancient activity from inspiring English sources

And there's comfort, too, in performing an ancient activity.

Plant breeding is an ancient activity, dating to the very beginnings of agriculture.

This ancient activity, which accounts for only 8% of world merchandise trade, is the most heavily distorted by misbegotten policies.

NAMING animals and plants is surely an ancient activity: there is much selective value in recognizing creatures that are similar to others we already know from experience to be edible or noxious, docile or hostile.

The presence of paralogous genes at different sites within a microbial genome might be the result of ancient activity of transposable elements and/or duplication of genome fragments as well as whole-genome duplications (Fani 2004).

However it was not until the 1990s that the settlement at Mellor was discovered; the site had a lack of tell-tale earthworks, such as a circular ditch (which would indicate ancient activity).

Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed crème brulee?

Consistent with the ancient activities of SINEU-1 and SINEU-3 families, their copy numbers in the three crocodilian genomes are comparable around 7,700 and 1,600, respectively.

Building construction is an ancient human activity.

Follow signs down paths that lead to the sea and the Piscine Naturali, saltwater pools formed by ancient volcanic activity.

The ancient volcanic activity created a substratum of black obsidian that some people believe infuses Byron with a powerful energizing force.