The anthroposophical view of evolution considers all animals to have evolved from an early, unspecialized form.

Bryozoans ' evolutionary relationships to other phyla are also unclear, partly because scientists ' view of the family tree of animals is mainly influenced by better-known phyla.

The Egyptians saw the eclipse as a sow swallowing the moon for a short time ; other cultures view the eclipse as the moon being swallowed by other animals, such as a jaguar in Mayan tradition, or a three legged toad in China.

The domestication of animals, of which we have evidence dating back to the end of the last glacial period ( c. 10, 000 years BP ), allowed the systematic production of meat and the breeding of animals with a view to improving meat production.

Unlike other dangerous animals, moose are not territorial, and do not view humans as food, and will therefore usually not pursue humans if they simply run away.

Carbone writes that the view that animals feel pain differently is now a minority view.

In some cases, people can view the keeping of animals as akin to slavery.

In the following years he continued to express the British preference for man-hauling ( the practice of propelling sledges by manpower, unassisted by animals ), a view he maintained until very late in his Antarctic career.

Government agencies view the animals as pests due to their effects on the natural environment and on agricultural production, but hunters view them as a resource.

Wild populations of animals and plants have evolved naturally over millions of years through a process of natural selection in contrast to human controlled selective breeding or artificial selection for desirable traits from the human point of view.

The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals with a view towards beef production.

Current religious thinking views the Akedah as central to the replacement of human sacrifice ; while some Talmudic scholars assert the replacement was the sacrifice of animals at the Temple — using Exodus 13: 2 – 12f ; 22: 28f ; 34: 19f ; Numeri 3: 1ff ; 18: 15 ; Deuteronomy 15: 19 — others view that as superseded by the symbolic pars-pro-toto sacrifice of circumcision.

The farm, which isn't like an industrial farm, contains a wide range of animals from rabbits to cows to chickens and pigs all free for the public to view.

Veganarchists typically view oppressive dynamics within society to be interconnected, from statism, racism and sexism to human supremacy and redefine veganism as a radical philosophy that sees the state as harmful to animals.

Paulus Potter ( baptised on November 20, 1625 in Enkhuizen – buried on January 17, 1654 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter, specialized in animals in landscapes, usually with a low point of view.

* Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong ; however, treating people, animals, and even computers as if they had beliefs is often a successful strategy-The major proponents of this view, Daniel Dennett and Lynne Rudder Baker, are both eliminativists in that they believe (?

Buddhists believe that Clinging to the view that one becomes pure simply through performing ritual or rigid moralism, such as praying to a god for deliverance, slaughtering animals for sacrifice, ablutions, etc.

They regarded interest as legitimate since acquired seeds and animals could " reproduce themselves "; whilst the ancient Jewish religious prohibitions against usury were a " different view ".

In this field Cuvier published a long list of memoirs, partly relating to the bones of extinct animals, and partly detailing the results of observations on the skeletons of living animals, specially examined with a view of throwing light upon the structure and affinities of the fossil forms.

Recently, several authors have argued for a more expansive view of natural history, including S. Herman, who defines the field as " the scientific study of plants and animals in their natural environments.

One view, dating back centuries, asserts that animals are not consciously aware and hence are unable to experience poor welfare.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

The primary quality of that view seems, now, to have been its quietness, but that cannot at the time have impressed us.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

The viewers of the `` Deep Peep Show '' at 15th and M Streets NW have an added attraction -- the view of a fossilized cypress swamp.

Yet it could not have been more than a matter of seconds, and then the front of the British army came into view.

To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.

The president who appoints strong men who have an all-college or university point of view and a talent and respect for administration can count on useful assistance.

On the other hand, the women class members appeared to reach a far greater understanding than have women members in other sections that it is more natural for males as a group to view sex as sex rather than always associating it with love as most women seem to do.

From the point of view of word formation real might be expected to have two syllables.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

There have been, indeed, many important and valuable gains from the development of our present scientific view of the world for which we may be rightly grateful.

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

To grasp our new view of the atom, we have to appreciate first of all how small the atom is.

And to see the meaning of this new picture, imagine that you can put on more powerful glasses and go back inside the atom and have a look at it in the way we view it today.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

However, earlier thinkers and written works have promoted agnostic points of view.

Also, in the Baha ' i view, souls will be able to recognize the accomplishments of the souls that have reached the same level as themselves, but not those that have achieved a rank higher than them.

Denominations like the Anabaptists ( beginning in 1525 ), and Waldensians ( pre-Reformation ), and other groups prior to the Reformation have also held this view of the Free Will of man.

" There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have.