It is a short step further to the human organism, whose brain has become larger and more complex, with a corresponding advance in the functional powers of reason and the like that owe their existence to the improved structural basis.
Wolff was the originator of the view that is now practically universal among naturalists, namely, that development is a real process of transformation from simpler to more complex conditions.
Then there are the variations of a second class, more complex in nature than the direct effects of environment,--namely, the functional results of use and disuse.
The widening of knowledge by experience, in the case of the human individual, furnishes him with more distant and more complex ends, which were earlier impossible to him, since he knew nothing of them.
Hydrocarbons are also produced by the breaking up of more complexorganic or hydrocarbon compounds, especially by heating--that is, by dry distillation.
Hair, according to these observations, is more complex in its structure than wool.
The combinations will then be more complex, but will remove every difficulty.
The outer layer of the body serves this purpose in very simple animals; gills or lungs are developed in more complex animals.
An insect is a higher type of life than a protozoan, because its structure is more complex and it can perform its work with more ease and accuracy.
Since the structure of the paramoecium is more complex, we say that it is a "higher" animal.
Disaccharides of Type 1 may be obtained by the hydrolysis of other, more complex, carbohydrates.
An attempt has been made to arrange the material in such a way as to proceed from simpler chemical principles and substances to those of more complex structures.
The series of instances which we shall take last, is of a more complex character, and requires a more minute analysis.
Thus even in astronomy, perfect exactness in the mere empirical laws is not to be looked for; much less, then, in more complex subjects of inquiry.
That there are no gaps in the process but that there is demonstrable a steady ascent from lower to higher (simple to more complex) forms of life, until man is reached, the acknowledged highest product of evolution.
That the female is, indeed, a more complex order of organisation than the male, is not to be doubted, since masculine characteristics emerge from it when it lapses from its normal of condition.
And the evolution of Sex has meant, of course, the ever further divergence and the more complex specialisation, in form and in function, of the characteristics of the one sex from those of the other.
The object of this book is to study the elementary beliefs and practices; so we must stop at the moment when they give birth to more complex forms.
But the problem concerning them is more complex, for they are social in another sense and, as it were in the second degree.
But if, as we have sought to establish, sacred things differ in nature from profane things, if they have a wholly different essence, then the problem is more complex.
This theory is accordingly too simple, but it probably points the way towards some truer, more complex, conception.
They would begin by studying sensations, and, advancing to more complex responses, would observe the conscious processes entering into the response.
Quite possibly, the learning process by which the substitute stimulus becomes attached to the salivary reaction is more complex in man's case.
Under what conditions have these miserable Fuegians been led to the employment of a more complex class of vessel than their more advanced congeners of the north?
A good instance of a more complexarrangement is to be found in the great temple at Abydos (Fig.
He did not entirely renounce them--we may indeed see reminiscences of them all around us--but he superimposed others upon them which were more complex.
Finally, they were often employed, not as self-contained monuments in themselves, but merely as the culminating points in a more complex ensemble.
A more complex type of harmony, since it admits of greater variety, is proportionality.
Such cases of symmetry between equal right and left parts are the simplest examples of balance; but there are other, more complex types.
The fresh forms which those others are evolving are valid for them--for life as they conceive it--for the wider range and the more complex nature of the experience out of which they are distilling the poetic essence.
Moreover, the life upon which it seizes in this way is wider, more complex, more meaningful and varied than ever before.
Those things belong to a more complex condition, both of life and of letters, than that which is reflected here.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more complex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
