In 1999, Danish geologist Minik Rosing presented evidence of a chemical signature for primitive lifeforms in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks from Isua, Greenland.
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"There are primitive features in the skeleton of floresiensis which for me suggests that it comes from quite a primitive form of human: one that may have been around two million years ago rather than one million years ago".
They hid a primitive computer in their shoes that could predict where a ball would land on a roulette wheel.
Bellyache about the sometimes primitive conditions in the holding areas?
But I must say I have never read anything as backward and primitive, in the anthropological sense of the word, as what you wrote in your piece entitled "Don't Marry Career Women".
Recent experience in Afghanistan, for example, has shown how hard it is to operate the basic elements of even a primitive economy in a country which has been torn apart by war.
The MyLifeBits software can then help you find that picture in a matter of seconds--faster than the more primitive search programs in use today.
Deep-learning software tries to emulate, albeit in a still primitive way, the activity in layers of neurons in the neocortex, the part of the human brain where thinking occurs.
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The hieroglyphic qualities and broad brush strokes of two of his masterpieces, "Ancient Script Mandala" (1968) and "Frolicking Birds and Beasts in Yin Script" (1969), are clearly influenced by the more primitive scripts found in bronze castings.
Flexcube's predecessor was a more primitive "bank in a box" that Citi coders developed.
In primitive street markets, plenty of price discrimination goes on, through a mix of haggling and local knowledge.
The man who makes you lower your eyes in primitive fear and dread.
Beheadings, amputations, flagellation and stoning are among the prescribed punishments for those who transgress this barbaric code, punishments plucked from primitive tribal practices in the Arabian deserts dating back to medieval times.
Subfactions of the Anonymous collective and the AntiSec movement have hit affiliates with the FBI such as IRC Federal and defense contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton using extremely primitive break-in techniques.
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Though the display resembles a primitive computer game in its blockiness, Dexter Turner, the president of Op Technologies, a rival firm that is developing a similar system, points out that this is quite adequate.
An unknown number of hikers and campers may have weathered the Thursday night storm on the dozens of trails and isolated primitive camping sites in the most hard-hit western portion of the park, spokesman Carey Jones said Friday morning.
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Even in primitive northwestern Europe, where Rome stationed its army at frontier posts like Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, cash salaries and pension payments, plus the use of private businesses to supply food, arms and other necessities, ensured a city-centered, money-based market economy.
Companies such as Plaxo, which help to synchronise address books, and Google itself, which has a primitive address book in its web-mail service, plan to turn these books into fully fledged social graphs that can do useful and productive things, perhaps including new variants of mini-feeds.
The fact that Fadl was working without pay in such a primitive facility rather than opening a practice in a gleaming modern clinic in Kuwait or Europe drew unwelcome attention.
In an era of high-speed recombinant genetic drugmaking, vaccine production is still primitive, little changed in 50 years.
Why would a burlap-suited guy in a primitive society, thousands of years from now on what used to be Hawaii, visualize the embodiment of pure evil in Victorian fashion?
They had to work in a primitive kitchen darkened by the absence of reliable electricity.
Stem cells are the primitive master cells found in most tissues that help generate more-specialized cells that perform most functions inside the body.
Some Africans, indignant at the way western critics denounce the tradition as barbaric and primitive, defend it in the name of cultural tradition.
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It is as though we are determined to regress to the most primitive condition of existence in the animal world, of the survival of the fittest.
In our primitive minds, attributing the cause of our own harm to the ill will of our fellows gives us a fighting chance to control our future by punishing wrongdoers.
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