Sentences with phrase «means for human evolution»

In a small teaching resource booklet, which to my knowledge is his latest written opinion on the matter (Oxnard, 1991:30 - 31), he first gives the basic data on australopithecine postcranial anatomy, then discusses possible functional interpretations, and finally comes to what it means for human evolution.

«In terms of what fire means for human evolution, it's absolutely critical,» says Chazan.

Human Breastfeeding is Not Automatic: Why That's So and What it Means For Human Evolution.

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Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

that the human Earth should already have attained the natural completion of its evolutionary growth, then it must mean that the ultra-human perfection which neo-humanism envisages for Evolution will coincide in concrete terms with the crowning of the Incarnation awaited by all Christians.

If evolution is a fact and if the most basic meaning of evolution is that the complex forms of life emerge from the simple, how can the dualistic forms of evolutionary theory account for the emergence of the human mind from inert lifeless matter, the animate from the inanimate?

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

Maybe the best way to amplify and elevate President Trump's understanding of that word «pro-life» would be for a premier Catholic university — say, for example, the University of Notre Dame — to invite him to campus to offer its commencement address, to explain his personal evolution on the abortion issue, and to share, listen, and learn with a cross-section of students and faculty in a respectful dialogue on the meaning of human dignity.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

Stringer: Well, it is certainly, it a stance that I have argued for a long time, but on the other hand, to be fair to the geneticists there are some who, I mean, Henry Harpending has just published a book called, I don't know, The Last 10,000 years of Human Evolution [or something like that], where he argues that in fact Neandertals did contribute, and he is a distinguished geneticist.

This means that insects didn't face the same selective pressure for super smart parents that mammals do, so they didn't get to tap into the positive feedback loop that may have driven the evolution of intelligence in humans.