While "ultimate" is frequently used to label organic evolutionary explanations (because they contrast with proximal explanations that invoke only intrinsic properties of an organism), recent work suggests the possibility that culture might provide relatively more ultimate explanations of some evolved traits.
A cascade might involve transcription factors acting on genes taking part in the signaling, but ultimately a pathway would end in affecting one or more ultimate transcription factors binding to the promoters of fast and slow genes.
In a process ontology, creativity is ultimate reality not in the sense of something more ultimate behind, above, or beyond reality, but in the sense of something ultimately descriptive of all reality, or what the biologist Charles Birch and the theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. call "the Life Process" (1984).
Only a more ultimate goal would allow me to withstand all the difficulties I've gone through".
Pick an issue: new stadiums, garbage transfer stations, congestion pricing, development of the World Trade Center site — with all of them, and more, ultimate power rests in Albany.
In a recent interview with The Afro-American Newspapers, Timothy Jenkins, an educator who worked with Mr. Guyot in the 1960s said: "He is significant because he knew there is a price more ultimate than death.
The more reservoir permeability, the more ultimate oil recovery.
Toyota, for example, believes that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have more ultimate potential.
We cannot get outside of dao to any more ultimate kind of authority.
More ultimate oil recovery was observed with increasing temperature (Fig. 2).
