Sentences with phrase «even modern humans are»

Even modern humans are the product of genetic exchange with Neanderthals some 60,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

The medieval field of alchemy — the attempt to change base metals into gold and to find the philosopher's stone capable of bringing about human perfection, even immortality — is ludicrous to the modern mind, a relic of a prescientific time.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

6A) please show me anywhere that a human can live 800 years, we are lucky to live 100 even with the help of modern medical practices.

Any idea of going back to the pattern or world - view of traditional societies either primal or medieval or even early modern is doing violence to the historical nature and social becoming of human beings.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

Such a rejection is not uncommon in modern theology, but it overlooks the significance of human sinfulness as responsible action, an action that even God takes seriously.

I do not intend to close on an eristically apologetic note; i.e., «See, oh moderns, how even the greatest genius of our age saw that the only reasonable response to the human dilemma without Christ is despair.»

This claim seems to me to be far more philosophically penetrating, and more disturbing, than the often - heard but more piecemeal criticisms of modern technology's negative environmental, economic, or social - political consequences, or even the critique of present uses of technology as «inhumane» or contrary to basic human values.

Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.

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.

First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.

This sounds good from the perspective of modern Christianity David, but couldn't it also be the case that in the primitive polytheistic world of the author, they felt that worshiping «their god», and «only their god» was of greater value than even human life?

Yet even these sorry placebos will not finally suffice, the Inquisitor insists, for the modern world will confront men with such scientific wonders and terrors that the vast human horde will not be content even with comfort and security.

If the horrors of the modern age suggest that human evil is perhaps even more awful in its reach than he imagined, it is also the case that there is a broadly shared human revulsion against such evil.

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

This represents a uniquely human characteristic that could only develop biologically alongside mother's continuous contact and proximity — as mother's body proves still to be the only environment to which the infant is truly adapted, for which even modern western technology has yet to produce a substitute.

As the world is becoming more international in its relations, that is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existence.

I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report is to be believed in its findings about farmhands and their animal charges).

The results showed that even though this hominid's brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's, it most likely walked upright like modern humans.

Because if some genius Neandertal invents a new kind of hand axe — and they used the same kind for so long, for tens and tens [of] thousands of years — but if somebody in the cave invents a new one, it's not going to spread beyond that cave probably, it might not even spread that much within the cave; it's [likely] to die with him; whereas the modern humans have this thing of watching each other and teaching other and spreading things among themselves among one another, so that 10,000 or so --[it] might have been a few more, I know that the people are not too clear about that might — there might only have been 10,000 Neandertals all over Europe.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

That's one interpretation, but then he found an even better fit with microcephalic modern human.

Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.

The new tooth also contains DNA unlike that of Neandertals or modern humans, suggesting that Denisovans interbred with an even more mysterious branch of the human family tree — one that is either unknown to science, or known only from fossils without preserved DNA.

Along with researchers like Louis Herman, a University of Hawaii scientist who found that dolphins can quickly recognize human gestures like pointing, even when a person is on TV, Reiss was shepherding dolphin science into the modern age.

Ever since spelunkers found a robust jawbone in a cave in Romania in 2002, some paleoanthropologists have thought that its huge wisdom teeth and other features resembled those of Neandertals even though the fossil was a modern human.

Even though Neandertals and modern humans interbred several times in the past 100,000 years, the DNA on the Y chromosome from a male Neandertal who lived at El Sidrón, Spain, 49,000 years ago has not been passed onto modern humans, researchers report today in The American Journal of Human Genetics.

So even though male Neandertals and female modern humans probably hooked up more than once over the ages, they may have been unable to produce many healthy male babies (such as the reconstruction of this Neandertal boy from fossils from Gibraltar)-- and, thus, hastened the extinction of Neandertals.

Without modern sanitation, life would be nightmarish — human and animal waste would fester on the streets along with garbage and food scraps, producing a stench so foul that you'd want to keep your windows closed even in the sweltering heat of summer (for the moment, envision lacking the luxury of air conditioning).

Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.

But for now, the genetics, and even when the genome is published, we still won't know, because so much of the human genome, we don't know what it means functionally; that holds true for modern humans, so of course, it's not going to instantly tell us everything that we want to know about Neandertals.

They are very evolved humans, their brains was big as ours and in some cases even bigger than the modern average.

And then even 100,000 years ago, if you could look just at the stone tools that modern humans are making in Africa and Israel, they are really hardly any different from what the Neandertals were doing.

Imagine a knife and fork they are really good at their jobs, but with modern humans you -LSB-'ve] got like the equivalent of a whole tool box with spanners and pulleys and weaving and high temperature firing for even making clay statue [ttes]; all of that technology I think, just takes moderns that bit further than Neandertals.

And I think that the reason why the Neandertals went extinct is it's certainly not the simple thing that we thought even 10 years ago; you know, I think, I would have said, well, yeah, moderns came in and Neandertals just very quickly just conceded, they were inferior, modern humans was superior technologically and the Neandertals just went under very quickly.

People living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV — even those whose infection is well controlled with modern combination antiretroviral therapy — remain at significant risk of cancer.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

Even though Neandertals and modern humans interbred several times in the past 100,000 years, the DNA on the Y chromosome from a male Neandertal who lived at El Sidrón, Spain, 49,000 years ago has not been passed onto modern humans, researchers report.

Gloriously ignorant of this simple fact, and relying entirely on the authority of Virchow and Ivanhoe (which by p. 156 has become a «large body of evidence»), Lubenow goes right ahead and proposes that not only Neandertalers but even Homo erectus were modern human beings deformed by rickets!

Research suggests that the interbreeding is possibly behind some characteristics of modern - day humans, which include skin color, rate of metabolism and even risks for smoking addiction and depression.

Goodman gives the impression modern humans are thought to have evolved from Neandertals about 40,000 years ago, but even if that were true, the statement would still be absurd.

«We can no longer assume that we know which species made which tools, or even assume that it was modern humans that were the innovators of some of these critical technological and behavioral breakthroughs in the archaeological record of Africa,» Berger said in a statement.

The museum website concedes that «Neanderthals were probably less brutish and more like modern humans than commonly portrayed,» and that they were, «sophisticated toolmakers and even prepared animal hides, which they used as clothing.»

This was long before modern human's diaspora from Africa and even long before the evolutionary diversification of Pygmies in Central Africa and before the emergence of the hunters and gatherers of East Africa.

Also, more recent analyses by other researchers seem to indicate that even if ergaster specimens are considered as a different taxon than erectus, the erectus material is still closer to modern humans cladistically.

After careful study of hundreds of scientific descriptions, and photographs of scores of fossil humans, it is clear to me that all shades of intergrading exist between «ancient» erectus and modern humans, but the chronological patterns of appearance, even using the evolutionists» own dating methods, do not match the predictions of the theory.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

More and more research is done that proves that fasting has earned its legitimate place in healing illnesses of our modern world > diabetes (See Dr. Jason Fung), high blood pressure, immune diseases and even offers an amazing role in supporting the fight against cancer and at the same time in protecting the human body against the toxicity of chemotherapy.

They are not easily digested by humans, and they contain added hormones, antibiotics, steroids — and even pus and blood from the cow, in modern dairy production.