Sentence examples for extant lives from inspiring English sources

Delehaye took a decisive part in the census of extant lives of saints, specializing in the early Christian centuries.

Because of this ideology, natural selection, to a meliorist, is nothing more than a dim and dismal theory that facilitates little improvement for the extant lives of children and may breed harsh, competitive, and inequitable environments.

This word reads in English as "original," meaning "extant," "living," or "modern," a sense which becomes clear from the context.

Most noticeably, adapiforms lack a key derived trait, the toothcomb, and possibly the toilet-claw, found not only in extant (living) strepsirrhines but also in tarsiers.

All 17 extinct lemurs were larger than the extant (living) forms, some weighing as much as 200 kg (440 lb), and are thought to have been active during the day.

Every extant living thing is adapted to its environment through the action of many complicated machines whose parts must work together, and which are therefore difficult to change.

Many extant animals live in social groups, suggesting that benefits of group living are wide-spread.

About 250 species of extant reptiles live in haline habitats or occasionally invade them (Wilfred 1958).

Indeed, adaptable systems in nature haven't proven their record of success by demonstrating a high percentage of predictions that turned out to be correct, but rather by surviving and reproducing for 3.5 billion years and by diversifying into tens of millions of extant species living in the coldest, hottest, deepest, highest and most unpredictable niches on Earth.

Worm lizards are found around the world today, though most of the 180 or so extant species live in the Arabian Peninsula, Africa and South America.

The absence of trees does not preclude Archaeopteryx from an arboreal lifestyle as several species of extant bird live exclusively in low shrubs.