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The ones I started were much more primitive.
But the images captured by Western media overwhelmingly depict Africans as basically primitive at best, or barely distinguishable from the African animals.
In a primitive and simple world, there's really no reason for a model, because feeling is close to reality.
Archaeopteryx, which is a bird, a primitive bird, still has that very primitive hand.
And I remember having a very eerie sense that the patient and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the patient had a role.
These are the most primitive people in the world.
You might think of this as kind of like a primitive cell.
So remember, these are primitive things, so dancing protocells, that's very interesting to us.
[32 Days: Arms & hands are developing] [36 Days: Beginning of the primitive vertebrae] [These weeks are the period of the most rapid development of the fetus.]
This is an unbelievably primitive emotional response.
And those were the most primitive forms of cells in a sense, those little drops of oil.
But they did look at these three and they said, "These are three different dinosaurs, and Dracorex is probably the most primitive of them.
And the other one is more primitive than the other."
It happened again about 120 or a 140 million years ago when some solitary wasps began creating little simple, primitive nests, or hives.
He's the breath of some primitive, ancient chaos.
I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft is this cacophony of men coughing, and stone being broken with primitive tools.
The browser was great, but the browser was very primitive, very narrow bandwidth.
And right now, humanoid robots are still incredibly primitive.
When you were little, I bet you spent time enjoying the pleasure of primitive art.
The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said, "Advanced Western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization."
If the aliens come visiting, we're the primitive civilization.
And can we really do better than these primitive, small-brained ancestors?
So what they're doing is working with seven breeds of primitive, hardy-looking cattle like that Maremmana primitivo on the top there to rebuild, over time, with selective back-breeding, the aurochs.
For example, mobile humanoid robots are still incredibly primitive, but the research arm of the Defense Department just launched a competition to have them do things like this, and if the track record is any guide, this competition is going to be successful.
All human societies develop in linear progression, beginning with primitive society, then slave society, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and finally, guess where we end up?
We learn plants and bacteria are primitive things, and fish give rise to amphibians followed by reptiles and mammals, and then you get you, this perfectly evolved creature at the end of the line.
So it's hubris, it's self-centered to think, "Oh, plants and bacteria are primitive, and we've been here for an evolutionary minute, so we're somehow special."
It's a primitive form of abstraction, and we now know this happens in the fusiform gyrus of the brain, because when that's damaged, these people lose the ability to engage in Bouba Kiki, but they also lose the ability to engage in metaphor.
Tribal societies shouldn't be scorned as primitive and miserable, but also they shouldn't be romanticized as happy and peaceful.
I hope that 50 years hence, people will hear about my treatments and be appalled that anyone endured such primitive science.
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