But the thousands of years of hybridizing plants and animals by humans has, if anything, psychologically and economically predisposed our kind to tampering with nature for our own ends.
"But 20 years later thousands of fans in the Premiership and Championship demonstrate that this is not the case, " Mr Foster told MPs.
The sport dates back thousands of years, but some of these warriors are modern-day breast cancer survivors racing in a dragon boat festival on Lake Peachtree south of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Metal-forming technologies have been in existence for thousands of years, but came into widespread use with the global industrialization that began to occur in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Humanity has experienced thousands of years of Empire but less than a century without emperors.
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With no means of communicating with the outside world, and no other human beings within thousands of miles, this was the Edwardian equivalent of an Apollo moon shot, but one that lasted years, not months.
Mining companies had filed thousands of claims in recent years, but it is unlikely that any of the 3, 500 mining claims in the area will receive federal permits when the 20-year ban goes into effect.
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In the past, the Shia militia has insisted that some of the thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails should be part of a prisoner swap, but over the past three years of halting, ultra-discreet negotiations through German mediators, this demand seems to have been dropped.
The exact details of what that agreement means in practice are still being hammered out (according to U.S. officials, these negotiations may take until November) but they are likely to include not only significant U.S. aid but also many thousands of American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan for years into the future as a guarantor of the country's stability.
There are now hundreds of thousands of apps (they used to be called applications but the world has gotten that much lazier over the past few years) written by tens of thousands of application developers around the world.
America's Big Three automakers -- Ford, General Motors and Chrysler -- have let go of thousands of their workers over the years, but Toyota has a widely admired policy against layoffs.
"It takes thousands of years for supernova remnants to evolve, but with this nova we've watched the same kinds of changes over just a few days, " said Kent Wood, a co-author on the Science study from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
But for just about every mineral I know about that limit is thousands of years away.
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This is rigorous, but it turns out this is how people met for thousands upon thousands of years.
We can have hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground for 100 years, but that will not change the fact that there is no military solution to the situation in Iraq.
But that ignores a currency that has been used effectively by man for thousands of years: gold.
Wolfe has not confirmed when it happened, but he believes that malaria's jump from chimpanzees to humans occurred thousands of years ago -- maybe more.
From thousands of miles away, globalization has hammered Dan River for years, but now it has moved right into Danville and taken over.
But there are many thousands of people around the world that gave the best of themselves over many years in order to have the days that we've been having up here.
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But cases were still argued in writing, with dossiers that ran into thousands of pages, and took years to resolve.
The companies have already started studies in thousands of people in order to get the drug approved, but those will take at least two years.
But investors have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds as the value of some trusts plummeted by more than 90% in three years.
Mozart was a musical prodigy, but he practiced for hours each day -- accumulating thousands of hours at the piano by the time he was just six years old.
Rippe said it's difficult to quantify exactly how much more concentrated the supplement is compared to foods, but he said the supplements are "consistent with" supplements that have been used by in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years.
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