Example sentences of "of the [noun] of life on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biogeography was the principal source of Darwin 's theory of evolution , but to most of his contemporaries it seemed obvious that the starting point for any investigation of the history of life on earth must be the fossil record . |
| 2 | But Forbes was unable to shake off the belief that new species were produced by the exertion of a supernatural agent — he proposed a strange theory of ‘ polarity ’ in which the creative power was supposed to have been exerted most strongly at the beginning and at the end of the history of life on earth . |
| 3 | John 's father , Sir William Herschel , was the discoverer of the planet Uranus in 1781 , and he had been firmly convinced of the possibility of life on other worlds . |
| 4 | Our question was , how much luck are we allowed to assume in a theory of the origin of life on Earth ? |
| 5 | This means that we can , if we want to , spend virtually our entire ration of postulatable luck in one big throw , in our theory of the origin of life on a planet . |
| 6 | Machines are the direct products of living objects ; they derive their complexity and design from living objects , and they are diagnostic of the existence of life on a planet . |
| 7 | You say you have bestowed your gift of the secret of life on mankind , but in fact you have done nothing of the sort . |
| 8 | the hypothesis may seem to give a palatable explanation of the emergence of life on Earth , but it merely pushes the problem one stage back : how did life originate on the planet of these putative alien space travellers ? |
| 9 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |