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Unchained from the great threat of pregnancy and social ruin, women could finally express their primitive and primal sexuality.
But this is just a primitive beginning.
You're a primitive, fascistic rise from some authoritarian past"?
That fear of being seen as an awful idiot is a threat reaction from a primitive part of your brain that's very hard to control.
The more primitive part of our visual cortex, which sees light contrast and motion, but not color, will blend two differently colored areas together if they have the same luminance.
The Bible actually talks about cognitive psychology, very primitive cognitive psychology.
From very primitive beginnings, with a very crude tool kit of stones, we now have a very advanced tool kit, and our tool use has really reached unprecedented levels: we've got buggies to Mars; we've mapped the human genome; and recently even created synthetic life, thanks to Craig Venter.
They're capable of extreme brutality, even a kind of primitive war.
From the head to the feet, the fossils present a mosaic of primitive, or ancestral, and derived or more modern-like features.
Like the skeletons, the teeth present a mix of primitive and derived traits.
In modern humans, the third molar is typically the smallest, while the first molar is the biggest, but Homo naledi has the primitive condition where the third molar is the biggest and the first molar is the smallest.
Postcranially, the team concluded that the position of the shoulders suggesting naledi was a climber; the flared pelvis and curved fingers are all primitive for the genus Homo.
No other species exists with this mix of primitive and derived traits.
This is perhaps the most primitive shanty that you can find in Kibera, little more than a stick-and-mud hut next to a garbage heap.
We've made good progress with the brains of robots, but their bodies are still primitive.
You see, over one billion years ago, the first primitive cells started to evolve on this planet.
The work as an apprentice was very primitive.
Because in the mid-1950s, when I was a tiny child, they had the audacity to launch a very primitive little satellite called Sputnik, which sent the Western world into a hysterical tailspin.
And that took what had been a tiny little astronomical object in the sky, that you would see as a dot, and turned it completely into a landscape, as that very first primitive picture came rastering across the screen.
It turns out to be a fairly simple and small list, and we have gone in the relatively primitive technology direction.
228 million years old, we found what really is the most primitive dinosaur: that's the Ur-dinosaur.
Some R and D muscle could take the very primitive pathogen sensors that we currently have and put them on a very steep price performance curve that would quickly become ingenious and networked and gradually as widespread as smoke detectors and even smartphones.
This company, Synthetic Genomics, I'm involved with, created the first full synthetic genome for a little bug, a very primitive creature called Mycoplasma genitalium.
Very primitive.
So the question that we had is: How can bacteria, these primitive organisms, tell the difference from times when they're alone and times when they're in a community, and then all do something together?
So we know that the principles and the rules, if we can figure them out in these sort of primitive organisms, the hope is that they will be applied to other human diseases and human behaviors as well.
See, D.O.U.G., in its primitive form, wasn't tracking my line perfectly.
And they can only in a very primitive way, and in a very limited way control their movements.
Because I believe that the hand in all its primitive, in all its physiological obscurity, has a source, though the source is unknown, though we don't have to be mystical about it.
Our computers, our systems will be as primitive as the Apollo's are for today.
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