Even then, scientists acknowledge, our understanding of the human genome will still be at a very primitive stage.

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In the poorer countries there it is indeed mined by very primitive methods.

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That is a very primitive understanding, in my opinion.

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The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.

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Consider that in the late 1990s when I wrote these predictions there was no Wikipedia, no social networks, no blogs, very primitive search engines that few people used, no usable language tools, very primitive and expensive mobile phones, and so on.

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It's a very evolutionarily hard-wired response that comes from a primitive need to respond very quickly.

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"We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail -- neither long nor short -- but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms, " he said.

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Although these films did very well abroad, local critics worried that internationally directed projects drew on stereotypes of Ireland being primitive yet idyllic and the Irish being short-tempered drunkards.

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