Sentence examples for primitive stage from inspiring English sources

Such a characteristic is thought to be a primitive stage in evolution.

Hernández, unfortunately, seems frozen in a relatively primitive stage of development.

As for its broadcast applications, we are still in a relatively primitive stage.

In addition, the overall design process starts from a primitive stage and ends with functional parts.

A lengthy primitive stage eventually led to commercial whaling; new markets and technical and chemical advances then produced modern whaling, which led to virtual extinction of the quarry and a return to a primitive stage.

In the first, or primitive, stage, Muslims were concerned principally to establish the proper text of the Qurʾān.

Such sophisticated campaigns are still rare in most parts of the world, and the internationalization of corporate philanthropy remains at a primitive stage in most countries.

We had seen other stories spelling out what did sound like a return to a primitive stage of existence in Britain... Sometimes the stories were hard to find.

But multipart music might never have gone beyond the most primitive stages of counterpoint had it not been for the application of organized rhythm to musical structure in the late Middle Ages.

We cannot believe that the bee dance of the European bees has come from heaven as it is and, since the Indian honeybees and the stingless bees there live in a more primitive social organization, we should expect some phylogenetically primitive stages of the bee dance.

"There's a ton of stuff out there that we're only in the primitive stages of understanding," said Mark Pokras, the director of the wildlife clinic at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in Medford, Mass., which formed a consortium two years ago with the Harvard Medical School and the Wildlife Trust, a private conservation group, to study emerging diseases.