intelligent species

collocation in English

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intelligent
adjective
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/ɪnˈtel.ɪ.dʒənt/us
/ɪnˈtel.ə.dʒənt/
showing intelligence, or able to learn and understand ...
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species
noun[C]
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/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/us
/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/
a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with ...
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(Definition ofintelligentandspeciesfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Almost any motivation we can imagine would lead anintelligentspecieswith the technology to launch that single probe.
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A similar fate is in store for any and allintelligentspeciesthat evolve on a water planet.
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And even moreintelligentspeciescould so survive if the universe were to have a period of acceleration in its expansion phase, as the universe is indeed observed to have.
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One might think anintelligentspecieswould be reluctant to use probes because of the worry that these machines would eventually escape from the control of the original transmitting species.
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As anintelligentspecies, we stand accused of using defenceless animals as though they were inert chemicals with no feelings.
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Among amphibians, the studies are still limited but thus far there are no remarkablyintelligentspeciesin this class.
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Believers in this theory think that the future of human development will see a newintelligentspecies that will be enhanced by the technological advances.
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This relationship would mean that theintelligentspeciesare not dinosaurs but lizard-people.
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The otherintelligentspecies, the cat-men, descend from a feline ancestor.
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Perhaps the most widely reoccurring element is the fox, which, through cunningness and shrewdness triumphs over lessintelligentspecies, yet often also meets his demise.
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Tuf establishes communications with the mudpots and brokers a peace agreement whereby his human employers agree to cease eating the planet's autochthonousintelligentspecies.
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The variousintelligentspeciesof the moon live underground, and two of these races are at war.
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They are amongst the world's mostintelligentspecies.
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This is bad news for the expedition, since planets with nativeintelligentspeciesare off limits to colonization.
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We are almost certainly not the firstintelligentspeciesto undertake the search.
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It is said that the mostintelligentspecieswere forbidden to live on those planets.
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The adults of the star's mostintelligentspecies, called cheela (no flexion for gender or number), have about the same mass as an adult human.
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According to his speech, dromiceiomimus supposedly could have evolved into a highlyintelligentspecieslike human beings.
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In science fiction, the first contact trope explores the possibilities of first contact between twointelligentspecies, generally humans and extraterrestrials.
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