Sentences with phrase «among early humans»

He adds that the shell beads come from a time when overall cultural innovation among early humans appears to have been speeding up, as evidenced by the short - lived nature of the Still Bay itself, which was soon replaced with other stone and bone tool styles.

Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change.

Dubbed Peking Man, it was among the earliest human remains ever uncovered, and it helped to convince many researchers that humanity first evolved in Asia.

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Among the earliest and most crucial hires I make at any organization are in human - capital management and business - development functions.

Rep. Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon and Georgia Republican who became an early supporter of President - elect Donald Trump, is among the top prospects being considered to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the new administration, according to Politico.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

From the early 1970s I was aware that among those who were newly conscientized to the destruction of life - support systems, some were concerned only with finding ways of avoiding negative consequences for human beings.

Problems with this standard are described in, among other places, the journal Early Human Development.

Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now - rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests

Previous studies of the effect of breastfeeding on morbidity among full - term infants have not always accounted for selection bias that may result if infants who are breastfed are inherently healthier than bottle - fed infants.22 In the current study, the VLBW infants» ability to breastfeed did not reflect better health status as both human milk and infant formula were provided via gavage feeding especially during early enteral feedings.

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

Madjedbebe, Australia: Various ochre pieces, found among thousands of stone tools, helped researchers establish in 2017 that humans were in Australia 65,000 years ago — 20,000 years earlier than researchers thought.

Humans acquired many of the diseases that have been among the deadliest, historically, from the livestock domesticated in the early years of civilization.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Furthermore, it makes it possible to look for these mutations in H5N1 viruses circulating in the wild, to provide an early warning of the emergence of viruses that might transmit among humans.

Demonstrating how these early humans acquired the extra energy they needed to sustain these shifts has been the subject of much debate among researchers.

Among them were saber - toothed cats, Etruscan wolves, hyenas the size of lions — and early members of the human family.

Among other changes on the list, the African gray parrot - famed for its skill in mimicking human speech - was rated endangered, one step worse than its earlier category as vulnerable.

The idea that early humans spent most of their time in and among trees has been boosted by evidence from a cave site in South Africa.

He has analyzed genetic relationships among diverse groups of people and finds that today's humans show evidence of interbreeding among Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and other early hominids over a wide span of time, from as far back as 1.5 million years ago until the last hypothesized global migration, around 80,000 years ago.

Among the earliest approaches we find the developmental theory of Abraham Maslow, emphasizing a hierarchy of needs and motivations; the existential psychology of Rollo May acknowledging human choice and the tragic aspects of human existence; and the person - centered or client - centered therapy of Carl Rogers, which is centered around the clients» capacity for self - direction and understanding of his / her own development.

«We found that when you perturb gut microbes early in life among mice and then stop the antibiotics, the microbes normalize but the effects on host metabolism are permanent,» says senior author Martin Blaser, MD, the Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Translational Medicine, director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program, and professor of microbiology at NYU School of Medicine.

Rather, the finding that Neandertals apparently wore mollusk shells as jewelry and used them as paint containers offers insight about the social conditions under which symbolism flourished among early modern humans but was rare among Neandertals.

The US government actually funded a study of the concept in 1958, an ambitious program called Project Orion that seriously proposed, among other things, building a nuclear - pulse spacecraft that could send humans to the moons of Saturn as early as the 1970s.

Shatz's lab was among the first to demonstrate that early spontaneous neural activity promotes the organization of billions of nerve cells within animal and human brains.

Among the early germ cell markers examined, VASA is a candidate gene for detecting pre-meiotic germ cell differentiation from monkey ES cells, because its expression is detected earlier in the primordial stage of germ cell development in comparison to that of PIWI family genes in vivo in mice and humans [11], [36]--[38], [49].

Just think: Someday you could walk among the Neanderthals, just as the earliest modern humans once did — and realize that history really does repeat itself [source: Edwards].

Goat Milk Compared to bigger animals such as cattle and horses, goats are considered as small livestock animals and are among the earliest animals domesticated by humans.

The table below summarizes the results of a comparison among recommended paleo menus, recommended plant - based menus, and a true Paleolithic diet eaten by early humans.

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

Michel Gondry Indie Work: A music video veteran of the 1990s and early 00s, with key work for Bjork, Daft Punk and Radiohead, among others, French helmer Michel Gondry ventured into features with 2001's «Human Nature,» a one - time Steven Soderbergh project penned by Charlie Kaufman.

The Askwith Forum is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featuring a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and moral engagement, expanded learning models, educating for human rights, and international education among others.

The LIFT network has engaged in professional learning on topics such as, human capital strategies, communication strategies, school scheduling, principal development, and early literacy, among others.

This philosophy is changing, mostly due to the results of some studies in humans that show an improvement in survival rates and recovery times among patients who are fed early in the recovery from pancreatitis.

These dogs were «scavengers» looking for food, and found it among the villages of early human societies.

Visit Tanzania where two million year old fossils suggest it was home to the world's first humans; wander among Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills to discover rock paintings illustrating early religious beliefs, foraging traditions and human progress; and meet the Massai People of Kenya to understand the cultural heritage of one of Africa's remaining semi-nomadic tribes.

Among Herring's early works were his woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing, and furniture.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

Look in the Smithsonian Journal in the early» 90's for an article postulating the reason that human females undergo menopause, unique among mammals, is that they become too valuable, for their knowledge, to risk in childbirth.

Whether humans evolved from earlier species of primates is a central point of contention among (certain) religious groups, on the one hand, and secular ones, on the other.

The first phase of disaggregation involved labor arbitrage; the second was a combination of labor arbitrage and early tech tools; and in the incipient third phase, there is collaboration between and among humans and machines in the delivery of legal services.

As they age, they may become suicidal, addicted to alcohol or other drugs, enmeshed in violent relationships, and unable to care for their children.64, 76 Delinquent females also engage in sexual activity at an earlier age than nonoffenders, placing them at greater risk for unwanted pregnancy and human immunodeficiency virus.78 Understanding psychiatric morbidity and associated risk factors among delinquent females could help us to improve treatment and reduce the cycle of disorder and dysfunction.

Early Childhood - Child Welfare Partnerships U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families Explores Early Childhood - Child Welfare partnerships and discusses the increased collaboration among child welfare and early childhood systems to support and amplify positive outcomes for children, prenatal to age 8, and their famiEarly Childhood - Child Welfare Partnerships U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families Explores Early Childhood - Child Welfare partnerships and discusses the increased collaboration among child welfare and early childhood systems to support and amplify positive outcomes for children, prenatal to age 8, and their famiEarly Childhood - Child Welfare partnerships and discusses the increased collaboration among child welfare and early childhood systems to support and amplify positive outcomes for children, prenatal to age 8, and their famiearly childhood systems to support and amplify positive outcomes for children, prenatal to age 8, and their families.

Sustaining services may involve strong partnerships at the state, county or local levels including collaborative efforts among early care and education, child welfare, public health, and other human services agencies; including private foundations or local initiatives.

Grossman is also principal investigator of an R03 award from the National Institutes of Child and Human Development — Risk Behaviors Among Offspring of Teen Parents: Effects of Parenting on the Next Generation, which addresses the potential of maternal and paternal parenting to reduce the high risk of early sex and teen pregnancy for offspring of teen parents.