Sentence examples for more primitive state from inspiring English sources

The ax again became the principal tool on the return to the more primitive state of technology.

That means scheduling practices and games requires the supremely flexible skills of Athletic Director Dave Petrick, who notes that when he started at Salam in 2002, athletics were in an even more primitive state.

(From left) Michael Longaker, Ava Carter and Howard Chang found in a new study that skeletal stem cells in the jaws of adult mice were able to regress to a more primitive state under certain conditions.

Lichenisation, as well as the ability to be saprobic or plant pathogenic evolved more than once in several families, though the taxa in the upper clades of the tree lead us to conclude that the strictly plant pathogenic, nectrotrophic families evolved from saprobic ancestors (Capnodiaceae), which is the more primitive state.

Actually, it is open to question whether live electronic music is really an advance or a reversion to a more primitive state of the art, in the sense that it is the enhancement of the timbres of familiar instruments, rather than music conceived totally in terms of electronic media per se.

But other researchers have argued that the Hobbits were descended from Homo erectus but that some of their anatomy reverted to a more primitive state.

Yet both functions first appeared in more primitive states in the 1970s with the introduction of optional factory-installed Citizen's Band two-way radios.

This process was traditionally thought to progress through a series of irreversible gene restrictions which limited dedifferentiation to more primitive states.

However, recent experimental evidence suggests that under certain circumstances "terminally" differentiated cells may retain the capacity to dedifferentiate to more primitive states and possibly trans-differentiate to alternative terminal states [3], [5] [8], although the molecular mechanisms by which this reprogramming occurs remain contentious [9].

If the terminal minimum is deep and/or fluctuations in transcriptional status are small (for example, if they are suppressed by epigenetic or other means) then stochastic transitions from the terminal state to alternative (more primitive) states will be rare [90].

New research from Stanford shows that skeletal stem cells in mice assume a more primitive developmental state in response to extensive regeneration needs and environmental cues.