Sentences with phrase «since modern humans»

In 2004 historian John Coatsworth described globalization as «what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates,» and that process has been carrying on in one form or another since modern humans first ventured out of Africa.

Since modern humans, according to the known fossil record, have been on this planet for roughly 30,000 years!

Not exact matches

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population and it has experienced productive and peaceful times in the decade since the Bali Bombings, actively committed to redressing a long history of human rights abuse and repairing once - frayed bonds with modern neighbors like Australia and New Zealand.

Since it is at a minimum passé to speak of God publicly, there are those who try to make the Decalogue more palatable to modern sensibilities by lopping off those Commandments directly referring to God, concentrating instead on the ones that govern human relations more generally.

The real content of many so - called modern difficulties are as old as the eternal hills, as old as human pride, as hoary as the «non serviam» which was uttered by the first man and has been re-echoed since down the centuries.

It has gone on since the beginning of our human history, but it began to intensify in modern times.

This is as dumb as saying that for 99 % of human history, quack remedies were the primary or only source of medical care (since modern medicine only arrived in the 20th century).

Practically speaking, until modern times, pregnancy and birth have been natural processes that have occurred with very little intervention since the epoch began when humans became inhabitants of earth.

For instance, recent research strongly suggests that in modern urban populations, the human microbiome has undergone major changes since the Industrial Revolution.

But archeologist Alexander Marshack of Harvard's Peabody Museum says it's most likely the artist was a more modern human, since known Neanderthal artifacts to date, aside from tools, have been limited to things like beads and worked ivory.

And since Church was one of the founders of the human genome project and helped develop modern sequencing methods, he knows what he is doing.

Ever since the rise of modern science, an almost impregnable wall separating it from religion, morality and human values has been raised to the heights.

Scientists are particularly curious about differences in brain size, since adult Neandertals tend to have a cranial capacity of about 1,500 cubic centimeters and modern day humans have a cranial capacity of about 1,350 cubic centimeters.

Modern humans have been on the move ever since a small band of people migrated out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago.

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.

Upon learning about Darwin's theory that all modern humans descended from a common ancestor close to the gorilla and originated in Africa — a continent that had fascinated him since he was a small child — he decided he would dedicate himself to tracing human origins.

They performed a computer simulation to see what would have happened if humans had evolved at modern rates ever since we diverged from chimpanzees 6 million years ago.

By reintroducing approximations of extinct animals to modern habitats, rewilding advocates want to reestablish dynamic systems that have not existed since the rise of human settlement in Europe.

In particular, the Neandertal genome sequence can now be used to catalog changes that have become «fixed» (are invariant within a population or species) in modern humans during the last few hundred thousand years and should be helpful for identifying genes affected by positive selection since humans diverged from Neandertals.

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

The antiquity of the stones means that chimpanzees have been cracking nuts since long before human farmers reached the region — one explanation for the ability of modern chimps to use hammer stones and anvils to open food.

The man's lactose intolerance is the one thing that was not surprising, since a hunter - gatherer would not drink milk beyond infancy — just like other mammals and all modern humans with the exception of those who come from milk - drinking cultures, Carles Lalueza - Fox explained.

One can (or could, in 1981) argue that modern humans evolved in only a few thousand years from Neandertals, but by claiming that modern humans appeared over 100,000 years ago, Goodman wrecks his own claim, since there is no evidence a sudden appearance of modern humans at that earlier date.

This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's.

It would be absurd to suggest that the epigenome of modern humans is identical to that of our Paleolithic ancestors, given the substantial changes in environment and food that have occurred since that era.

The reasoning behind paleo is as follows: the human body adapted to the diet of the stone age and since then our genetics have changed little, yet our diet has changed a lot, and this incongruity results in obesity, heart and coronary disease, diabetes, and other diseases found in modern mankind.

It not be possible to trace local dating sites nj precise history of swinging since the modern concept is so closely related to basic human sexuality and relationships, you can change the location at any time.

Since then, humans have enjoyed a long parallel history with dogs during our own progression from hunter - gatherers and then farmers, to modern city dwellers.

Topping it all is an astronomical figure — more than 1.4 billion hours — totalling the amount of time players have put into Guild Wars 2 since launch, nearly the same time modern humans have spent walking the earth.

Rituals since 1851», Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (2015); «Chercher le Garçon», MAC / VAL, Paris, France (2015); «Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s - 1990s», Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (2015); «Progress», The Foundling Museum, London, England (2014); «Study from the Human Body», Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2014); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», Frankfurt MMK, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2014); «Education», Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland (2013); «Victoriana: The Art of Revival», Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England (2013); «Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa», Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA (2013); «The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945», Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2012); «Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition», Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands (2012); and «Migrations: Journeys into British Art», Tate Britain, London, England (2012).

The Newark Museum has been collecting and exhibiting modern ceramics since 1910, and its inter-departmental ceramic holdings number thousands of objects that embrace human culture all across the world from prehistory to the present.

The vignette seems to be set in a time and place where nature and people collide, where people and natural habitat encroach upon each other, and where time has no clear recognition of a particular era — it could be anywhere, almost at any modern time, since humans and nature are always intersecting and at odds with each other.

The largest Bruce Nauman exhibition in Europe since 1998, this survey follows the American artist's understated yet commanding occupation of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall last year and takes as its focus the artist's ongoing investigations into the human condition.

In a catalogue essay on an exhibition of Chadwick's sculptures and drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in January 1962, Herbert Read noted that Chadwick has consolidated his style and subject matter since winning the 1956 Sculpture Prize at Venice, saying... «He is still preoccupied with states of attention or alertness in the human figure or the animal.

Selected Exhibitions 1944: Lefevre Gallery, London 1947: The London Gallery 1950: Hanover Gallery, London 1954: British Pavilion Venice Biennale 1958: Marlborough Fine Art, London 1972: Anthony d'Offay, London 1974: Retrospective, Hayward Gallery, London 1979: Davis & Long Co, New York 1983: Thomas Agnew & Sons, London Selected Group Shows 1948: «Forty Years of Modern Art», Institute of Contemporary Art, London 1950: «London - Paris», Institute of Contemporary Art, London 1953: «Portraits by Contemporary British Artists» Marlborough Fine Art, London 1962: «British Self Portraits from Sickert to the Present Day», Arts Council 1966: «British Painting since 1945», Tate Gallery, London 1976: «The Human Clay», Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery 1979: «The British Art Show», Arts Council of Great Britain.

Modern humans seem not to appreciate how little time has passed since our numbers first reached one billion (around 1820 - 1830).

And thus it would have meant the end of human civilization and essentially all modern mammalian — including human — life on essentially almost all the planet, since modern mammals can not survive with typical summertime afternoon heat indexes around 200 degrees F or have viable populations at even just 150 degrees F without suitable microenvironments to retreat into.)

A fresh poll by the Gallup Organization shows that since 1982 there has been hardly a flicker in the dominance of the American view that God created humans in essentially modern form within the last 10,000 years:

Modern conservation efforts have gone a long way to mitigate human contributions to these climate variations since the Industrial revolution, which is generally marked as the point at which human contribution to climate change became statistically significant.

I am not «denying» that a) there is a GHE which slows down outgoing LW radiation (OLR) b) that CO2 and H2O are GHGs c) that human activity generates CO2 (primarily from fossil fuels) d) that atmospheric CO2 has risen since Mauna Loa measurements started e) that globally and annually land and sea surface temperature has risen since the modern record started

Moreover, since his definition of global warming specifically excludes natural variability, he couldn't possibly say all warming seen in the modern temperature record is due to humans.

Since the beginning of the 1980's, humanity has poured some 860 billion CO2 tonnes into the atmosphere; atmospheric CO2 levels keep climbing (see yellow boxes); yet, the average tropical atmospheric temperature has essentially not budged (see red dotted baseline) over 3 + decades of modern consumer / industrial human emissions.

For the modern period since 1950, an approximate 1.2 trillion tonnes of human CO2 emissions were released, while the earlier period had some 200 billion tonnes - that's a 6x difference.

By Eric McLamb Just over 200 years have zipped by since humans began to truly command the planet's resources in ways that have taken humans to unprecedented heights and advances in modern living.

Basically everything that we think of as «modern human civilization» — permanent agriculture, continuously occupied cities, free WiFi — has emerged since the last ice age ended roughly 11,000 years ago.

If we accept the hypothesis that modern humans are responsible for the demise of these species, does that mean the sixth extinction has been happening ever since we came along?

There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.

This number for humans (though it is more of a range with 150 being the average), has since been found in all sorts of studies; from some of the few remaining hunter - gatherer tribes, to the modern military unit of a company.

Lawyers advising First Nations on these issues should have a strong background in employment law principles and human rights, particularly since the Canadian Human Rights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreemhuman rights, particularly since the Canadian Human Rights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreemHuman Rights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreements.

While the front part of a dog's nose is almost entirely committed to respiration, the rest is committed to olfaction — the sense of smell — and since there are hundreds of millions more olfactory receptors in a dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farmer.