Not sure how they can be relevant when the environment they are now be used within didn't even exist back then.

Indeed, "a disinflationary environment will exist around the world for the first half of the decade."

No clone can have my experience and training; the environment which produced me no longer exists.

Nothing remotely like that environment had existed since the Cretaceous.

Perhaps the environments that set off homosexuality today didn't exist while our genes were being selected.

No enabling environment existed for spreading renewable energy technologies in rural areas.

"The environment to do that doesn't exist here," Schuerholz said.

Plant roots will generally grow in any direction where the correct environment of air, mineral nutrients and water exists to meet the plant's needs.

In this secret world developed by Gaia, a sustainable environment exists to support life.

Such an environment does not exist in the uncatalyzed reaction in water.