Molecular evolutionary biologists have scarcely scratched the surface and barely started to understand this flexible genetic apparatus, although Jacob already put forward a view of the genome as a dynamic body of ancestrally iterated and tinkered pieces more than thirty years ago (Jacob 1977).
We have barely begun to understand the killing fields of Lithuania.
We have barely begun to understand the relationships among foods in a cuisine.
First, there are huge hurdles ahead in the fight to restore stability in the Sahel, many of which policymakers, blinkered by the past, have barely begun to understand.
Despite this, we've barely started to understand the long-term implications of these shifts in the labour market – let alone do anything about it.
Last night, feeling barely equipped to understand the United States, or perhaps humans in general, I made a reluctant journey to Westeros.
The BBC TV drama Jamaica Inn lost a quarter of its audience after sound issues left viewers barely able to understand the dialogue.
To be human is to be rooted in the soil and enmeshed with myriads of creatures, seen and unseen, all growing together within geo-bio-ecosystem processes we have barely begun to understand.
Dr. Phimister concludes that it would be "unwise to abandon the practice of recording race when we have barely begun to understand the architecture of the human genome" and its clues to the genetic basis of disease.
But they clearly thrive on it, and they are yet another indicator that humankind has barely begun to understand the resonances of its own existence, much less the steps it must take to insure its survival.
Or maybe it's most moving for his public to see Elvis as a sacrificial figure: the guy who came up from nowhere, left American culture all shook up but barely seemed to understand what made him great.
