Sentences with phrase «ancestors at»

Whoever and wherever we came from, our ancestors at one time or another experienced slavery of some sort.

Hi wetnosedogs, he was actually a Dogue de Bordeaux, a French breed that probably has the same ancestors at the Bullmastiff.

Since the courageous parents and students of the Sherman Public Schools pushed - back against the unproven and invalid SBAC tests in ways comparable to our determined ancestors at Lexington and Concord 240 years ago, the proverbial shots have been heard around the State.

See full infographic: WEB PDF © NOVIE STUDIO, 2016, ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDEstimating when a HAR evolved is challenging because these calculations rely on comparisons with genomes from hominins that split off from our ancestors at different times in the past.

The data, reported this week in Science and Nature, support the view that Neandertals diverged from our own ancestors at least 450,000 years ago.

The skull was the fifth unearthed at a fossil - rich prehistoric watering hole in Dmanisi, Georgia; together, the specimens provide a vivid picture of the population of human ancestors at that location and place in time — and the variation within it.

Examining patterns of traits across the primate family tree, the researchers inferred the most likely characteristics of ancestors at different branching points in the tree — all the way back to the common ancestor.

Others contend the two are not human ancestors at all because they appeared around 400,000 years after the first evidence of H. habilis, the earliest in the Homo line.

They studied genetic data from 1,983 living individuals across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas and concluded that Neanderthals or another ancient hominid group must have interbred with our ancestors at least once, in the eastern Mediterranean, soon after humans migrated out of Africa.

But the idea that their ancestors at least trekked through the corridor persisted, says Meltzer, even though there was little consensus on when the passage opened or when it became habitable.

Governor Aregbesola however said the new monarch has come to the throne of his ancestors at a time when the nation needs to be more peaceful, cooperated and live unity, stressing that his wealth of experience would be highly needed to foster mutual relationship of yorubas.

I don't think my ancestors at Pittsburgh back....

But to top it all off, you choose to follow a god that was forced to your ancestors at the edge of a sword.

She told me about her ancestors at the time of the Civil War.

In fact, each human gene can be traced back to a single ancestor at some point over the last few million years, but different individuals at different times, and this is entirely to be expected statistically.

This suggests that the lineages of the three most recent outbreaks all diverged from a common ancestor at roughly the same time, around 2004 (Fig. 2C and Fig. 3A), which supports the hypothesis that each outbreak represents an independent zoonotic event from the same genetically diverse viral population in its natural reservoir.

By analyzing the genomes of 28 bears — polar bears, including a roughly 120,000 - year - old specimen from Norway's Svalbard archipelago, as well as modern brown bears and black bears — the scientists in effect read back in time to a common ancestor at least four million years ago.

The finding, detailed in the Aug. 23 issue of the journal Nature, suggests humans and gorillas last shared a common ancestor at least 10 million years ago.

Maria also blogs about her experiences as a writer and world traveler at http://www.mariastaal.com/ and about her quest to learn more about a saintly ancestor at a new site set to launch very soon.

Adding Branches to Your Family Tree One Ancestor at a Time.

Adding Branches to Your Family Tree One Ancestor at a Time.

Not exact matches

Here's a look at their ancestors.

When a stranger approached our caveman ancestors, the best way to tell if the stranger had good or bad intentions was to look at their hands.

Conversation is an art, at least that's what my French ancestors say.

Just like a normal tree branches further and further from its trunk, you can trace current species back to common ancestors by looking at DNA.

The first verse of Hebrews strikes me as a good definition of creative incarnation: «In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways» (TNIV).

At least your ancestors had America to come to, if there was no America then where would you go to escape persecution?

Todays Religions are tomorrows Mythologies, During the days of the Greek and Roman empires their Gods were as real to them as our Gods are to us today, Yet today we find their Gods a silly idea Given a few thousand years our ancestors will laugh at the silliness of people following God / Jesus while they follow the deity of their day.

For years and years the Church abused the power they had.They screwed over my Ancestors who were not Christians, forced people to convert, burned people at the stake, tortured people, stole lands, and who knows what else.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

The great trick that humans developed at some point in the last few hundred thousand years is the ability to circle around a tree, rock, ancestor, flag, book or god, and then treat that thing as sacred.

We are no longer at the mercy of the elements in the same way our ancestors were.

Lutherans and Presbyterians can buy into that movement only if they are prepared to leave at the stadium turnstile all that actually makes them Lutherans and Presbyterians — in other words, almost all that their Reformer ancestors held dear.

For example, we talk about how our forefathers were delivered from slavery in Egypt, even though our blood ancestors may have been in northern Europe at the time.

Thanks to science, we don't have the plagues that our ancestors had, and at least we can predict when a hurricane is on the way.

Jesus» birth at Bethlehem has been questioned, because it seems unlikely that in a census people would be required to travel to the home of their ancestors.

His ancestors — Abraham, Jacob, Jeremiah — all lived as aliens at one time or another.

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

Our ancestors were using these structures at least 500,000 years ago.

Ted, our ancestors in Britain were at first barbarians, some of them cannibals whose relish for certain choice portions of human bodies, like well - cooked male buttocks and female breasts, is in the historic record, and it was Christian missionaries who saved our forebears from their savagery.

But Prothero is mad at God (when he ought to be mad at his ancestors..

As many of our ancestors saw clearly at the time, its essence was the conviction that methods of psychic and group pressure were both necessary and efficacious to evangelizing.

The poverty of our ancestors left them at the mercy of climate changes, and the results were awful.

Another way the term evolution is used in biology is to refer to the idea of «common descent,» that all species alive today and which have ever existed descend from a single ancestor which existed at some time in the past.

Performance studies was developing, at that time, into a discipline of inquiry within communication studies that acknowledged many ancestors in its family tree including rhetorical theory, dramaturgy, and literary criticism.

Lamps were lit at the graves of ancestors.

At some point, our ancestors» genes became more successful when the ones who knew how to reciprocate helping others had a tendency to survive longer.

We are where we are today because our ancestors were willing to go to jail, to be thrown to the lions and be burned at the stake.

Those present at the Seder are made participant in the deliverance; it is they, quite as much as their ancestors in the remote past, who know and experience God's arm as «mighty to save».

Some like John Jay tried all at once the strategies of ignoring, overwhelming and inventing when he claimed that the emerging republic was «one connected country» and «one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in manners and customs.»