Sentences with phrase «although modern humans are»

Although modern humans are the only human species alive today, other human species once walked the Earth.

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Jenkins, on the other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality» movement, which one way or another allow humans to share with God in the evolution of the world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Although the hominin fossils were clearly different from modern humans and chimpanzees, the analysis found the rest of the fossils fell into a single, highly variable group.

Although some researchers once thought they were our immediate ancestors in Europe, most now agree that Neandertals and modern humans most likely shared a common ancestor within the last 500,000 years, possibly in Africa.

Although H. pylori probably arose in Africa and was carried by modern humans as they settled around the world, it has been a mystery how different types of the microbe spread globally and how they are related to each other.

Although Châtelperronian artifacts closely resemble those made by modern humans, many researchers have attributed them to Neandertals because they have sometimes been found with Neandertal fossils.

«Although autonomy - establishing behavior is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger,» Allen and colleagues write.

Although some researchers suspect that earlier hominids, not modern humans, made the stone tools, Marks is hopeful that future digs in Arabia, Iran, and western India will unearth still more evidence of humanity's bold, early route out of Africa.

Although common in humans, domestic pets, and zoo animals, periodontal disease does not typically develop in wild animals, leading to speculation that it is an oral microbiome disease resulting from modern human lifestyles.

Although nowadays many San tribes that have used bowhunting and poison arrows in the past have abandoned them due to restrictions, modern tools and change of lifestyle in general, the familiarisation, adoption and development of poison weapons dating back to Ancient times are excellent examples of the cognitive shifts in human evolution.

Although Australia is halfway around the world from our species's accepted birthplace in Africa, the continent is nevertheless home to some of the earliest undisputed signs of modern humans outside Africa, and Aborigines have unique languages and cultural adaptations.

But what we can say is that although modern humans have left behind what are clearly awls and needles, Neanderthals did not leave those things behind.

Louise Humphrey, an anthropologist and tooth expert at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees, although she says that the early weaning of the Scladina child is «intriguing» because it is more than a year earlier than the nearly 30 months typical of modern human nonindustrial societies.

Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments.»

Although it was just about possible to dismiss A. sediba, with its assortment of ancient and modern features, as a quirk of human evolution, the new find hints that such «mosaicism» is not the exception in early humans but the rule, says Berger.

Although Neandertal symbolism was relatively rare, personal ornaments become more common at their sites when modern humans migrated into the area about 40,000 years ago.

Radiographic two - dimensional studies indicate that Neandertal molar enamel is thin relative to the thick enamel of modern humans, although such methods have limited accuracy.

Although 1470 is usually placed in the genus Homo, it is definitely not a modern human.

Although Neanderthals had broader bodies than modern humans, he added, their brain to overall body size ratio was still larger than that of our species.

Notably, although fully modern humans were already present in southern China at least as early as ~ 80,000 years ago, there is no evidence that they entered Europe before ~ 45,000 years ago.

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

Although these cavemen did not have higher - order cognitive abilities as as we do, their cellular and metabolic needs were likely similar to that of modern, active humans.

Forty seven of 137 of the bodies from each region were found to have probable or definite atherosclerosis, leading researchers to conclude that «Although commonly assumed to be a modern disease, the presence of atherosclerosis in premodern human beings raises the possibility of a more basic predisposition to the disease.»

Although the assumption is often made that agriculture was in every respect an improvement upon the human condition, anthropological research shows that if our Paleolithic ancestors were able to survive accidents, infection and childbirth, their longevity was similar to that of the modern human, but without many of the chronic degenerative diseases that affect us now.

Although anesthesia will never be 100 % risk - free, modern anesthetics (including intravenous fluids and rapidly acting and rapidly metabolized anesthetic drugs) and patient evaluation techniques (ECG, blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, etc) used in advanced veterinary hospitals minimize the risks just like in human medicine.

Although canines and humans have a long history together, it may be that the features of the modern world make their role more crucial than ever in improving our lives!

Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchased 2007 The international dominance in the 1990s of interactive art practices that draw on human relations and their social context, termed «Relational Art», is not reflected in the Weltkunst Collection, although noted exponent Douglas Gordon does feature with the work Above all else, 1991.

Although many people would not want to live in such cities (and many could imagine what such conditions might well be like), because we humans are so visual, many other people might get the impression, «well, that place looks reasonably modern, colorful, and clean, just like in the movies: That might be fun.»