Here, multiple lineages are distributed across the Mediterranean, including on islands, a pattern that is difficult to explain by natural processes in organisms with naturally poor dispersal abilities.
Plastics made from petrochemicals are not a product of nature and cannot be broken down by natural processes.
However, sustainability requires that a degradable material breaks down completely by natural processes so that the basic building blocks can be used again by nature to make a new life form.
His view that climate change is caused by natural processes such as solar activity has been disproved by scientists.
Although sinkholes are often caused by natural processes, they can also be triggered by human activity.
More important, perhaps, my Pentecostal upbringing continues to influence my deepest assumptions about what is and is not possible in a world allegedly governed solely by natural processes".
(Russell Mills, an artist fascinated by natural processes like erosion and decay, ended up creating the album covers for both).
A literal interpretation of Genesis seems incompatible with the gradual evolution of humans and other organisms by natural processes.
And while almost all of the scientists surveyed accept that human beings evolved by natural processes and that human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming, general public is far less sure.
Vegetation is an excellent insulating medium and removal or disturbance of it, either by natural processes or by humans, causes thawing of the underlying permafrost.
The key reason for this is that carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for a very long time before being slowly removed again by natural processes.
