Our occasional quarrels are reminders of a basic primordial human need for a role in a small family unit on which we still depend.
The idea rebukes the flickering screens of Tinder and other online dating services, while the setting feeds our primordial basic needs of hunting, gathering, and mating.
Life generates its own chemical energy in cells, we are not turned on by ultraviolet or invigorated by lightning from above, as primordial soups might need.
It's funny — but it also gets at the intimacy of war, the primordial connection, the need for human contact in the face of death.
It is also far from certain that the biosynthesis of complex amino acids such as arginine would have been beyond the capabilities of RNA World organisms, so the primordial genetic code need not have been confined to simple amino acids.
It is important to understand that the story is not about birth weight but about fetal programming, and that intergenerational prevention of type 2 diabetes (primordial prevention) will need to target maternal nutrition and metabolism.
The story starts out as "Frankenstein," then turns unexpectedly into something more like "Dracula," thanks to Hoban's best joke: for Justine to live in full color, rather than in the unnerving black-and-white in which she has emerged from Fallok's "primordial soup," she needs blood and plenty of it.
Rat killer: Whenever the everyday stresses pile up too high and I need a primordial escape.
Those primordial organisms had no need for developing new and improved metabolic abilities since most of the required nutrients were available.
In response to the increasing salinity of the primordial ocean, cells would need a mechanism for pumping Na+ ions out of the cell, driving the transition from a protein translocase to the precursor of an ion-translocating membrane ATPase, as described elsewhere [ 37].
