Our form of conscious intelligence emerged from our evolutionary heritage, which in turn was shaped by our biological environment.

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Basically, it involves using a small hairpin shaped snippet of RNA to turn off a single gene at a time.

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And the generation that devised and presided over those tribunals had, in turn, been shaped by a much different experience in dealing with German war criminals after World War I.

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Today virtually every ski is shaped, and skis are easier to turn, get on edge, and carve with than ever before.

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Zinc fingers, so named because they contain a zinc atom and are shaped like an index finger, can turn specific genes off or on or to some point in between, delete genes altogether or add new genetic material.

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In turn, these massive U-shaped glacially formed valleys create a home for countless species of flora and fauna, including animals such as the much photographed mountain sheep and the elusive grizzly bear.

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The latter will consist of three free-standing units a square glass pavilion (as a workroom for the sculptor's poet wife), a tall triangle of recycled steel (forming the sculptor's studio) and an arc-shaped monolith of untreated wood, whose patina will turn grey with age (for the couple's house).

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Her interest is in the ways in which ideas of the soul are shaped by the technology and circumstances of a society, and how these ideas in turn shape the way people see themselves.

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