But it also has a primordial quality, conjuring the dangerous, grueling ordeal of ancient birth practices.
Although it has a primordial feel, Lake Bogoria is in many ways thoroughly modern, a little-known player in the fashion industry, for instance, and the subject of a high-stakes legal dispute to boot.
The book of Proverbs introduces, in an apparently theological context, the concept of Wisdom (Ḥokhma), which was to have a primordial significance for Jewish thought, and presents it as the first and favourite of God's creations.
For some "it has a primordial quality". For others it "is situational," and for still others, it is "a type of cultural collectivity". From these three attitudes we can conclude that ethnicity is fluid in time and space, related to the perspective from which it is contemplated.
Perhaps we're attracted to tradition in all things romantic; perhaps it's simply animal instinct as there are more and more biological studies suggesting that males have a primordial instinct to chase a mate and females have a primordial instinct to accept the mate that wins the chase.
Xenopus species have also been shown to have a single class I locus [28], in contrast to axolotl [29], indicating that Rana temporaria may have a primordial MHC organization like that of Xenopus.
Giardia, an organism thought to be a representative of the early diverging eukaryote lineage, has a primordial Arf that is ∼70% and 63% identical to human class I/II and class III Arfs [36].
In addition, genetic and epigenetic regulations have a primordial role in the microRNAs and gene expression interactions [ 1– 3].
Anatomical and molecular evidence shows that the sea lamprey has a primordial accessory olfactory system that may serve a chemosensory function.
It is well known that caspase-3 has a primordial role in triggering the cascade of events that lead to apoptosis [ 2, 32, 37].
