Sentences with phrase «allow early humans»

In a new study, the team argue that the springs acted as pit stops to allow early humans to survive as they moved across the African landscape.

«The styloid process reflects an increased dexterity that allowed early human species to use powerful yet precise grips when manipulating objects.

If this is the case, the sites may have provided «nodal points» or base camps along nutrient - rich route - ways through the Palaeolithic landscape, allowing early humans to explore northwards to more challenging environments.»

The warm climate probably allowed early humans to migrate northwards without the need to develop technology such as fire and clothing or to adapt to a colder climate, says Anthony Stuart of University College London, who coordinated the project.

Humans get about 30 percent more energy from cooked food than raw food, an important distinction that allowed early humans to fuel a growing brain.

Not exact matches

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

The conviction that this something must be both subject to empirical scientific examination, and workable in the sense of allowing and demanding human effort, was stronger in the last period than in the earlier years, very certainly because of the awesome advances in science, and especially in the arts of war.

Though the Word breaks out into the daylight of consciousness only with the birth of persons and human history, faith allows us to discern a great promise even in the very earliest moments of the cosmic adventure.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

The first milk banks came into existence in the early 20th century as food technology evolved allowing for successful storage of human milk.

Early humans» ability to switch to another staple in this way may be what allowed us to outlast other primate species.

For larger inbound NEOs, of course, early detection might allow human intervention to skirt catastrophe.

Central to this rewriting is the notion that early humans, Homo erectus, left Africa almost a million years earlier than current theory allows.

Green fluorescent protein labeling allowed them to see the early development pattern and show that lncND, which ordinarily is not present in mice — lncND is present only in some primates including humans — had a functional effect on development.

Draper's human organ system should be able to identify effective drugs and ineffective ones early in the drug discovery process, allowing developers to refocus resources on the strong candidates earlier and end unproductive research earlier, minimizing costs, Borenstein said.

The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.

The early human techno - tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66,000 to 59,000 years ago indicates that during this period of pronounced aridification they developed cultural innovations that allowed them to significantly enlarge the range of environments they occupied.

As DNA damage is often one of the early steps in the development of cancer, the detection of micronuclei by cGAS could therefore be an important early alarm system allowing the human body to detect and remove potentially cancerous cells.

Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.

The work stems from an earlier collaboration between Potash and David J. Volsky (also from Columbia University); they established a chimeric HIV clone with a genetic modification that allows the virus to propagate in rodents instead of humans.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

«Our work allows us to probe the activity of heparanase in human samples — allowing early disease identification and a direct measure of the success of drugs in humans.

Even though as a launch vehicle SLS is capable of opening up the Solar System to human access, allowing for an endless list of opportunities for both robotic and human missions, as showcased in an earlier AmericaSpace article, only a couple of definitive missions has been officially announced for its launch schedule.

Under the proposed NIH policy, taxpayer funds would be allowed for experiments in which human cells are added to early - stage embryos of all animals except nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, because they are so similar to humans.

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

Like many of the director's early works, this one finds him obsessed with the manner in which the human body can break down and betray us in disgusting and even fatal fashion — here, the catalyst is Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed), whose work at his Psychoplasmic Institute centers around allowing his patients to manifest their inner rage in a physical manner.

The movie opens with a title explaining that a medical breakthrough in the early 1950s allowed human life expectancy to surpass 100 years by 1967, which instantly compromises the quotidian tone Ishiguro worked so hard to create.

From the earliest letters via horse and rider to high - tech glasses that allow us to access the breadth of human knowledge, the history of communication has taken many impressive twists and turns throughout history, and the evolution of this powerful universal tool is one that should be explored by children.

We all acknowledge that change takes time, but it is important to put systems in place that allow for the examination of signals along the change horizon that help ensure your decisions along that horizon lead to improvement, result in some early wins, and ultimately ensure a good use of human and fiscal resources.

Pets age much faster than humans and examining pets every year allows the opportunity to discover issues early.

Almost 40 % of suburban and urban cat owners (and a much larger percentage of rural cat owners) allow their cats to roam some of the time.2 These cats are at risk for becoming stray and feral and for having kittens that — if they survive (the mortality rate of feral kittens may be as high as 75 % 1,3)-- will become feral without early socialization to humans.

Research done by the Comparative Orthopaedics Laboratory allowed the continued application of cartilage cell transplantation to the human knee; by early 2004 over 10,000 cartilage cell transplantation procedures had been performed in the United States using techniques validated by the laboratory.

Hoarding situations may go unreported for fear that the people will get in trouble or that the animals will be taken away, however, early intervention allows for the best possible outcome for the animals and humans involved.

The main point of discussion will be about the new UNAC system, which is the new AI setup that harks back to earlier Armored Core games and allows AI wing - mates to help you out on missions (in the absence of human players).

By some accounts it was pushed by a German advisory panel back in the early 1990s, who argued that letting temperatures rise more than 2 °C (3.6 °F) would bring us outside the temperature range that allowed human civilization to flourish in the first place.

Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.

While early text readers sounded robotic and were hard to understand, Google's DeepMind ® AI allows computers to mimic the human voice in a manner that is virtually indistinguishable from a real human voice (Listen to some sample audio files and read more about how they are created).

The initial idea behind the summit was to create a place where human to human discussions could be held in the spirit of the «Homebrew Computer Club (HCC)» (albeit a little higher end, and with kitesurfing between sessions) to advance the community's thinking on the required infrastructure and applications to allow Blockchain to be used for societal good — and to actively do something about it, in the same way that the early attendees of HCC were builders, not just «talkers».

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