You can add arms, legs, eyes and stingers to your creature, and the software figures out how that creature should walk, run and hunt.
But the new threat is the ability to transform that creature into images of our own choosing, without regard to whether the new creature is going to be an improvement, or whether these so-called improvements are going to sap all of the energies of the soul that make for human aspirations, art, science and care for the less fortunate.
Just try pointing out that a relationship with a creature that cannot challenge you, that does not make you slog daily through the necessary compromise, debate, and occasional pitched battle, might be something less than deep and nuanced, and see where it gets you.
Scientists checked with museums around the world before deciding that the creature was a new discovery.
My seven-year-old daughter immediately recognised that the creature in the apple was in fact an earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris).
They also want to include specialized tissue, so that the creature can activate the muscular contractions internally, as a real jellyfish does.
James Durbin -- that mythical creature with the tail from season 10 -- returned with blonde ambition to scream "Higher Than Heaven, " off his debut album Memories of a Broken Disaster.
His great strength is that he can speak from a position of authority, being that rare creature who has found success both as an intelligence agent and as the operator of an enduring business.
The most he ever fished up in 2008, on the last of almost 30 trips, when he supposed that the creature was dead and was looking for its carcass was an old tyre cut about a bit, which could have looked quite humpish on the surface.
The tronador (whip) they carry and their masks emphasize this role, the latter characterized by accentuated noses that evoke the beak of the condor, creature that represents the spirit of the sacred mountains.
That means the creature was contemporary with both Neanderthals and modern humans in the area.
The Grat is a peculiar creature that rich people use to carry wealth from one generation to the next.
The only point of view which has not been made public is that of the creature at the centre of the row.
Mr Long is not worried by his encounter and says whatever the 'Beast' is, it is clearly a timid creature that shies from human contact.
What could be more fitting, after all, for a city named after a creature that self-immolates and then rises out of its own ashes?
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Knack is an adorable robotic creature that grows as the game progresses a useful skill, considering he has to help defend the world against alien invaders.
It's impossible to have a creature that physical and spiritual size in your home and not have it leave a gaping wound when it's excised.
But it was the health of another creature that was bothering one Plaid delegate - the fox, or at least the fate of one particular fox.
The creature that gave rise to all the placental mammals - a huge group that includes whales, elephants, dogs, bats and us - has at last been pinpointed.
But it's in the other category of innovation, that containing the creature comforts of a modern car, where we're likely to see the most innovation at the show.
In Spore, players start as a single-celled organism and evolve into a swimming or walking creature that mates, becomes a village and, eventually, ends up as a planet.
Sam Worthington, as the mighty Perseus (otherwise known as the dude who slayed the Kraken), takes on a two-headed griffin-like creature that trashes a village with its incendiary breath.
Children of all ages can test their tongues with witty wordplay in "Allicatter Gatorpillar, " where a creature that is half alligator, half caterpillar sings songs and bares his teeth.
More than 150 years ago, a birdwatcher on a trip to the Falkland Islands scribbled down some notes about the behavior of a winged creature that sailors called the Johnny Rook.
In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.
Through Reddit, I quickly discovered a popular link with adorable photos of this strange new creature that very well might have been the result of an aardvark mating with Danny DeVito.
Our ancestors survived through a bias for action (e.g. eating every scrap of food I can get my hands on or clubbing a creature that looks at me sideways) not a bias for planning (thinking about retirement from hunting and gathering).
"In the 1980's somebody came to me and said that there was a new creature in the river Nile, " says Khalil.
His concern appears to be that evolution requires an unbroken chain of viable genetic variants that connect the first living creature to, say, human beings.
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