Sentence examples for over vast time from inspiring English sources

[Scientists say humans have now brought on an entirely new geologic epoch] The factor out of our control is the Earth's Milankovitch cycles, which describe the erratic way in which the planet orbits the sun and spins on its axis over vast time periods.

Although it's unlikely that amber can yield the DNA of dinosaurs, a la Jurassic Park, the tree resin can preserve the remains of insects and other organisms in great detail over vast time frames.

Darwin recognized that the theory that life had evolved over a vast time also had implications for the fossil record as then known.

For example, you might choose the name "Juliane", which was used in many countries over a vast time frame.

This should come as no surprise when one considers the power of natural selection and the vast time span and enormous scale of possibilities that it operates over.

Paul Gray wrote in a review in Time that the documents that make up Shikasta allow Lessing to stretch the novel out over vast periods of time and shift perspective "dramatically from the near infinite to the minute".

All things, including the species to which we belong, have evolved over vast stretches of time.

Dispersal and vicariance are the common and over-arching explanations that account for the patterns of life on earth that take place over vast periods of time.

It has been suggested that a major source of petroleum found in deep-sea sediments originates from the deposition of wax-rich dead plankton over vast periods of time.

The Modern Synthesis an integration of genetics, paleontology, ecology, and other branches of biology explained life predominantly as the result of natural selection operating on small differences between individuals over vast periods of time.

The Klamath Mountains consist of multiple terranes former volcanic islands and coral reefs and bits of subduction zones, mantle, and seafloor that merged offshore over vast stretches of time before colliding with North America as a single block about 150 to 130 million years ago.