Sentence examples for orders of living from inspiring English sources

There are three orders of living amphibians: the Apoda, which are legless, wormlike types such as caecilians; the Urodela, which are tailed forms such as mudpuppies, newts, and salamanders; and the Anura, which are tailless forms including frogs and toads.

In consequence, he concludes, it is "not unreasonable to think, that those planets may, like our earth, be the habitation of various orders of living creatures" (1785: 24).

Accordingly, the sage calls the king's attention to the familiar hierarchical structure of the empirical world, namely, the ascending orders of living beings that can be perceived by the senses plants, animals, and human beings endowed with intellect.

These three orders of living amphibians are thought to derive from a single radiation of ancient amphibians, and although strikingly different in body form, they are probably the closest relatives to one another.

Shorris mentioned in passing that "Modern scientists tell us how somewhere near the bottom of the order of living things, immortality reigns".

That's one reason Carter has remained something of an outlier in the fraternal order of living former presidents, that most exclusive of clubs where unlikely cross-party friendships have developed – between Hoover and Harry Truman, between Clinton and both George Bushes, even between Carter and Gerald Ford, the man he defeated in 1976.

Hennig (19501966) proposed a method of reconstructing phylogenies that revolutionized the view of the natural order of living beings, which is a product of evolutionary processes.

Waking up to this Easter morning as we put in a panoply of pansies at Sunrise and watch as their smiling faces turn toward the springtime Sunset we remember our place in the natural order of living things.

The problem is exacerbated both by the fact that Rodentia represents the most abundant and diversified order of living mammals and by variations in molecular evolutionary rate and mode in some families.

Despite the incontrovertible element of uncertainty and other limitations of scientific methods, it is implicitly assumed that science plays the vital role of providing humanity with the best knowledge of how the world works and of the placement of humankind in the natural order of living things.

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