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So far these microstructures are rudimentary--far from the structural sophistication of a whole organ.
Perform some kind of rudimentary research and experiment in any field of science.
More likely it was an advantage in food acquisition or production, such as rudimentary domestication of animals and/or plants.
But rudimentary as it is, the information that has been collected is enough to dispel some egregious myths.
Climbing gear was rudimentary-some pitons were hammered out of stove legs.
But for the manner in which you measure to get a limited handle on the nature of an atom, it works for rudimentary exercises.
Communications and information-gathering capabilities are either rudimentary or non-existent.
They usually have little background in health care and only rudimentary training.
It can remember the past and guess at the future in a rudimentary way.
Nonetheless, animals can turn their entire bodies into rudimentary rolling wheels, albeit without the accompanying axles.
Only a rudimentary knowledge of grammar is required because the syntax is already laid out for you.
Cave swiftlets navigate with rudimentary sonar, too.
The key precondition for this sort of marketplace is the presence of rudimentary secular values.
Non-intelligent species were too rudimentary or too far away to be detected.
Archaeologists say they brought domesticated cattle and sheep with them, and engaged in rudimentary agriculture.
Atmospheric physics is so complex that climate scientists have only a rudimentary understanding of how it works.
But, actually, ants can do it in a rudimentary form.
In a rush the engineers put together a rudimentary probe and launched.
Researchers in each of the labs have built the first rudimentary components of a working quantum computer.
Blind mice developed rudimentary vision when researchers activated certain retinal cells using a gene commonly found in algae.
But telepathy does not seem to exist even in rudimentary form in the animal kingdom.
Government regulations covering orbital debris are still rudimentary.
Rudimentary geometry informs us how perspective behaves.
Other experiments have found that monkeys even have a rudimentary sense of ownership and respect for property.

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