Sentence examples for vast timescale from inspiring English sources

But in its confidence and sweep, the vast timescale, its humane standpoint and its confident world-view, it is something more than a science book: it is an epic history by an optimist who can list his reasons to be cheerful and support them with persuasive instances.

Given the vast timescale over which humans have interacted with the English landscape, it seems plausible that archaeologists of the distant future will concoct some narrative to unify these works with the stones themselves, perhaps one based on the astronomical alignment of the tunnel with the decayed footings of some vast M-shaped golden arches that were mysteriously erected some decades later.

Given the extraordinarily vast timescale of evolutionary history, we should not be surprised that unlikely things might occasionally happen.

The conservation of operons over vast evolutionary timescales, despite high genome rearrangement rates and very frequent horizontal transfer, and the dependency of operon conservation on biologically relevant traits suggest that natural selection drives the evolution of operons.

The 33 miRNAs families that were conserved between cotton and other species add to our understanding that most miRNA families are ancient and stable over vast evolutionary timescales (fig. 2).

The spiraling Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway in the Rose Center for Earth and Space, made possible by their support, not only helps make comprehensible the vast 13billion-year timescale of the universe, but also sparks wonder and awe through its elegant and powerful design.

Ultimately, this work may contribute to the integration of phylogenetic inference over short timescales with the vast and growing literature on mathematical modeling of ecological and epidemiological population dynamics (Bailey 1975; Anderson and May 1991).

The mechanisms of unidirectional spread of genes among prokaryotes may be slow at the level of individual generations, but over geological timescales, their cumulative effects are vast.

New technologies make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about each individual patient over a large timescale.

The importance of accurately defining the molecular ensembles of proteins was recognized early by Levinthal, who concluded that folding of a random coil by way of a diffusive search of its combinatorially vast conformational space is incompatible with the biological energies and timescales of protein folding [1].

"There's no one-size-fits all solution to storage on the grid, it's going to require different solutions because the size of the storage and the timescales you need to store them over are so vast.