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contributes to environmental protection Romantic love has clear evolutionary roots but our views about what makes an ideal romantic relationship can be swayed by the society we live in

The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like barley, and about 10% were bits of roots, including lily, which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say.

But what happens when new players emerge, who don't have deep roots within the existing culture?

Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

The decline in American Indian languages has historical roots.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

They also replaced rotting roots and halted the sinking of the churches into the ground.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

Early forms of cake were simply a kind of bread, so this tradition hits its roots in the custom of sharing bread.

In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius's sly provocation of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was the basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organising.

She didn't want her children to miss out on their roots.

So how can you come up with brilliant daydreams and avoid falling over tree roots or otherwise looking like a fool?

This suggests that British attitudes towards accent have deep roots and are based on class prejudice.

DNA testing is also the latest rage among passionate genealogists—and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization.