Modern oxygen breathing animals would have been biochemically impossible until earlier photosynthetic life transformed Earth's atmosphere.

Modern humans started burying their dead, using animal hides to make clothing, hunting with more sophisticated techniques ( such as using trapping pits or driving animals off cliffs ), and engaging in cave painting.

Modern agriculture employs a number of techniques, such as progeny testing, to make animals evolve rapidly towards having the qualities desired by meat producers.

Nouns do not have gender in Modern English, although many of them denote people or animals of a specific sex.

Modern historians may be more accurate than the mediæval sources as the modern figures are based on estimates of the logistical ability of the countryside to support these numbers of men and animals.

Biomechanics ( from " life " and μηχανική " mechanics ", In Modern Greek, εμβιομηχανική ) is the study of the structure and function of biological systems such as humans, animals, plants, organs, and cells

Modern intensive farming refers to the industrialized production of animals ( livestock, poultry and fish ) and crops.

Modern definitions from biologists often focus on the scientific study of individual organisms in their environment, as seen in this definition by M. Bates: " Natural history is the study of animals and Plants-of organisms.

Modern rodeos in the United States are closely regulated and have responded to accusations of animal cruelty by instituting a number of rules to guide how rodeo animals are to be managed.

Modern rodeos in the United States are closely regulated and have responded to accusations of animal cruelty by instituting a number of rules to guide how rodeo animals are to be managed.

Modern knowledge of wolves dismisses the idea of alpha male in a pack, favoring the concept of breeder wolf, in the sense that in these animals the pack leader is simply the common parent, and its status is not obtained by fighting.

Shankland's father, Frank North Shankland, was the author of " Modern Romances " and several books on birds and animals.

Modern large marine animals such as the sperm whale ( 20 m ), and especially the blue whale (~ 30 m ) all grew larger than currently known plesiosaurians.

Each of his Evolutionary Faunas, the Cambrian, Paleozoic, and Modern Faunas, is composed of Linnean classes of animals that have covarying diversity patterns, characteristic rates of turnover, and broadly similar ecologies.

The d20 Menace Manual is a listing of statistics for animals, aliens, and other potential enemies, for use in the d20 Modern role-playing game.

Modern fantasy literature has revived the elves as a race of semi-divine beings of human stature who are friendly with nature and animals.

Modern tanks possess very thick composite armour consisting of layers of steel, ceramics, plastics and Kevlar, and these materials have melting points well above the burning temperature of gasoline, which makes the vehicles themselves invulnerable to Molotov cocktails.

Despite the lack of financial backing and grants, they persisted and the first device was implanted in February 1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.

Modern pharmacology studies demonstrated that its crude extracts and active compounds possess wide pharmacological actions, especially in antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, insecticidal, analgesic, sedative and convulsive activities.

Despite the lack of financial backing and grants, they persisted and the first device was implanted in February 1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.

Modern applications of double cloth include haute couture coats, blankets, furnishing fabrics, and some brocades.

Modern arable agriculture typically uses large field ( agriculture ) | fields like this one in Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like oversized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in ( or even driven in with explosives ) like pilings, or a variety of other non-mass means of getting a grip on the bottom.

* Modern Neopagans, especially Eco-Pagans, sometimes like to describe themselves as animists, meaning that they respect the diverse community of living beings and spirits with whom humans share the world / cosmos.

Modern biotechnology is often associated with the use of genetically altered microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast for the production of substances like synthetic insulin or antibiotics.

Modern imaging systems like PostScript, Asymptote, Metafont, and SVG use Bézier splines composed of cubic Bézier curves for drawing curved shapes.

Although the first representatives of leafy trees and true grasses emerged in the Cretaceous, the flora was still dominated by conifers like Araucaria ( Here: Modern Araucaria araucana in Chile ).

Modern surveys, like the U. S. Geological Survey, map and exhibit the natural resources within the country.

In Modern Greek, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the " th " in " that " or " this ".

: Modern styling: The Eurotram, used in Strasbourg has a modern design that makes it look almost as much like a train as a tram, and has large windows along its entire length.

Modern waka poets like Masaoka Shiki and Saito Mokichi considered him one of greatest poets in the history of Japanese literature.

The success of original material like Urinetown, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and In the Heights, as well as creative re-imaginings of film properties, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Billy Elliot and The Color Purple, and plays-turned-musicals, such as Spring Awakening, prompts theatre historian John Kenrick to write: " Is the Musical dead?

Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".

Modern competitions take place for ploughing enthusiasts like the National Ploughing Championships in the UK.

Ethnic minorities declined since the beginning of the Modern Age, like the Polabs, Sorbs and even the once important Low Germans had to assimilate themselves.

Modern methods of slaughter like the captive bolt stunning and electrocuting are also prohibited.

Modern Unix derivatives like BSD and GNU / Linux continue the tradition of the multi-user, remote display / input session.

Nespolo's films have been exhibited in institutions like the Beaubourg in Paris, the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw's Filmoteka Polska and Ferrara's Galleria Civica d ' Arte Moderna.

Modern shopping malls like Unirea Shopping Center, Bucharest Mall, Plaza Romania and City Mall emerged on pre-existent structures of former hunger circuses.

Modern game shows like Weakest Link, Greed, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, American Gladiators, Dog Eat Dog and Deal or No Deal also lie in a gray area: like traditional game shows ( e. g., The Price Is Right, Jeopardy!

Modern physics is becoming increasingly specialized, where researchers tend to focus on a particular area rather than being " universalists " like Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Lev Landau, who worked in multiple areas.

Modern Anglo-American law, like European civil law, is based on a will theory of contract, according to which all terms of a contract are binding on the parties because they chose those terms for themselves.

Modern operating systems, application code, and data are stored on nonvolatile data storage devices, such as hard drives, CDs, DVDs, flash memory cards ( like SD cards ), USB flash drives, and floppy disks.