Guanche weapons adapted to the insular environment (using wood, obsidian and stone as primary materials), with later influences from medieval European weaponry.

By contrast, the M.I.T. development program offers a more insular environment.

The lack of predators and the limitation of space and resources in Oreopithecus' insular environment favored a locomotor system optimized for low energy expenditure rather than speed and mobility.

"I had come from a protected, insular environment," he said.

In that relatively insular environment, there are not many degrees of separation between most actors.

But his "self-improving ambitions," as Mr. Lichtenstein calls them, drew him beyond that insular and relatively privileged environment.

It was smaller than its relatives, possibly due to the insular environment that existed in Europe during the Cretaceous period.

Due to factors such as the climate and insular environment the style of music, songs, dance and instruments used (such as the viola de arame).

"New York City is such an insular environment for an artist that you always question whether you can live and breathe and create outside of it," he said as he packed up his bag.

He would realize that he lives in an insular environment but that we need to consider our actions worldwide.