In this, as in many other features, they have remained primitive.
It seems headhunting has remained relatively primitive, even when the hunting is in The Valley.
While much of the industry has changed, with large corporations guarding the market, an export market expanding rapidly and microwave popcorn rendering stove-top popping nearly obsolete, the curing process has remained simple, if not primitive.
On the other hand, another process for achieving 'order from disorder' that drove chemical evolution and led to the emergence of life from primitive physical systems has remained a subject of continuing debate and uncertainty.
From primitive times, the floor has remained the common surface for sitting and sleeping in Japanese architecture.
A diverse brew of primitive compounds on Phoebe's surface suggests that the tiny moon was born among a remote reservoir of cometlike bodies and eventually drifted into Saturn's gravitational field, where it has remained ever since.
But, whereas therapies and diagnostics for cancer have been evolving steadily in response to new biochemical knowledge, surgical techniques have remained surprisingly primitive.What happens at the moment is that a surgeon roots around inside a patient, removes as much tumour as he can find, and hopes he got it all.
It is obvious that some master craftsman has brought his genius to a field that had remained too long in the primitive stage of painting black, white, and blue streaks on transports and covering seige gun s with mosquito netting.
It is likely that martian life, necessarily chemotrophic, would have remained (and may still remain) in a very small, primitive state.
Zhu Lanye, deputy dean of the international department at the East China University of Politics and Law, told the President that the state of the legal profession in China remained primitive but had improved.
