Sentences with phrase «ancestors began»

Some traditional owners and their ancestors began moving from the western and southern portions of the Nature Reserve in the 1940s and 50s, eventually arriving and taking up a more sedentary and certain lifestyle in and around Wiluna, Laverton and Warburton.

What's more, scientists have detailed records of past CO2 levels from ice core studies, which show that CO2 levels are higher today than at any point since our distant ancestors began migrating out of Africa 800,000 years ago.

In was only relatively recently (in the last few hundred thousand years) that your ancestors began using cooking fires.

«It's possible we'll one day find three groups of hominin fossils — those with Gc - CS before the human lineage branched off, those without Gc - CS in our direct lineage, and then more recent fossils in which trace amounts of Gc - CS began to reappear when our ancestors began eating red meat,» Varki said.

However, the recent study compared CT scans of modern and fossil reptiles and found that the slithering animals lost their limbs when their ancient ancestors began living and hunting in burrows instead.

Instead of eating protein - rich meat, our ancestors began eating grains, which have far fewer vitamins and minerals.

A growing brain requires nutrient - rich, energy - packed food, so rather than foraging for fruits and vegetables, our human ancestors began eating meat.

Previous research has shown that the first instance of fire use occurred around 1.9 million years ago, around the time humans» ancestors began to develop bigger noggins.

But, beginning about 1.8 million years ago, the brains of our ancestors began growing steadily, tripling in size over the next 1.5 million years,» said Herculano - Houzel.

But few scientists thought there were enough hominins — ancestors of humans but not other apes — before that to threaten the fierce assortment of carnivores that roamed Africa, or that the crude stone tools that our ancestors began to wield 2.6 million years ago could be used for hunting.

PALISADES, NEW YORK — When human ancestors began scavenging for meat regularly on the open plains of Africa about 2.5 million years ago, they apparently took more than their fair share of flesh.

But «the jury is still out» on whether cooking was responsible for the first dramatic burst of brain growth in our lineage, in H. erectus, Martin says, or whether our ancestors began cooking over a fire later, when the brain went through a second major growth spurt about 600,000 years ago.

But once our ancestors began to link their natural instinct for numbers with a new ability to understand symbols, everything changed.

Researchers at the symposium proposed that something similar happened as human ancestors began to live in closer quarters, relying more on each other and on wider social networks to survive.

But in a global sense, humans» most disruptive technologies may have been born millennia ago, when our ancestors began to plant crops and cross the globe.

«If anything, the yeasts seem to have had the upper hand, at least since our ancestors began brewing their own grog»

Human ancestors began walking upright at least 6 million years ago, according to analysis of hominid leg and pelvic bones.

Greiner concludes that our apelike ancestors began walking upright for some unknown reason before their ilium and gluteus began to change.

With the dawn of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began settling in villages and living in larger groups, making tolerance of other people and cooperative behavior increasingly necessary.

«At some point our ancestors began to develop...

A new study of artifacts from a cave in Israel suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago — far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates.

Did you know that humankind's ancestors began encasing mastodon meat two - and - a-half-million years ago or that people shared the streets of Chicago with cattle in 1913?

When, researchers have long wondered, did our ancestors begin to spread across the globe?

Not exact matches

And so we begin with confession, certainly for particular sins of racism but even for the sin we were unwittingly born into, the sin we did not advocate for or promote but that benefited us nonetheless, the passive and active attitudes and actions of our ancestors who failed to advocate for full equality and justice for their fellow citizens.

Take a moment to listen and begin to hear about ancestor worship, the growth of the church on the mainland compared to the slower growth in Taiwan, and a bluegrass concert.

Altruism, empathy, compassion and morality are what allowed our primitive ancestors to begin to form civilizations.

Though he seemed barely capable of affection for his family (his occasional devotions to Holly were not fully reciprocated), in late middle age he began an impassioned study of his genealogy, and the bare Pennsylvania church yards where his ancestors lay buried became sites of pilgrimage for him.

Finally, several hundred thousand years ago, our direct human ancestors appeared and began to spread out over the face of the earth.

No longer repudiated as a spiritual ancestor of Nazism (a charge that was quite unfair to begin with), he is now made to legitimate every variant of political correctness on the left; one can imagine his discomfort if news of this reaches him in whatever sector of the hereafter is reserved for bad philosophers.

Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.»

There are now signs that we are beginning to recover some of the awe our ancestors felt towards the natural world.

The promise of the soul and the afterlife is designed to make us not fear the end by viewing it as a new beginning, which it is, in a way, as we rejoin our ancestors in the carbon from whence we came.

'' DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group of African ancestors who about 60,000 years ago began a remarkable journey.

Matthew and Luke both begin with Jesus» birth, or rather before Jesus» birth in the lists of his ancestors and the report of visions and prophecies to Mary and Joseph, Elizabeth and Zechariah.

Our ancestors were beguiled into further exploration of noetic richness which, once begun, continued with an ever - increasing fruitfulness.

I began to feel that the Mass gave me a living connection with my ancestors in England and Scotland before the Reformation and with other ancestors thousands of years earlier than that, in the woods and in the caves on the mudflats of Europe.

While they were very conscious, indeed, of building a new world, and even then were beginning to imagine a new order, our ancestors were far from being indifferent to tradition.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

They begin with a brief overview of fatherhood in nonhuman primates and a discussion of how anthropologists are reconstructing the family life of our ancestors.

«We must begin the conversation towards identifying and properly acknowledging our ancestors.

Hodgskiss strikes a middle ground as she imagines how human ancestors might have begun using the material: «You're walking through the landscape, and you see a beautiful red or yellow or purple stone, and you realize you can grind it and get a really nice powder from it.

Resistance could mean resurrecting the peanut ancestors» drought tolerance; or it could be a plant with a knack for repelling bugs; or it could be found by hacking the plant's immune system through mechanisms scientists are just beginning to understand.

Thanks to powerful gene - sequencing techniques developed in the past two decades during the race to decode the human genome, researchers are beginning to reconstruct what our ancestors» microbiomes looked like, potentially going back thousands of years.

The tale begins with our early ancestors — where they traveled and with whom they consorted.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

The ancestor of whales emerged about 50 million years ago, and the first toothed whales began to use echolocation about 30 million years ago.

The antiquity of these creatures suggests two evolutionary scenarios, the scientists say: Either eurypterids diversified quickly during the early stages of the Ordovician period (which began about 485 million years ago), or their lineage, including yet - to - be-discovered ancestors and kin, evolved more slowly and originated even further back in time during the Cambrian period — possibly during the Cambrian explosion, a period of evolutionary diversification sometimes called «life's big bang,» which began about 542 million years ago.

It began its journey to Earth more than 5 million years ago, about the time humans and chimpanzees were splitting from a common ancestor.

Earth's climate was transitioning from greenhouse to icehouse, and the ancestors of modern reptiles and mammals (as well as the precursors of dinosaurs) had begun to emerge from earlier large amphibians.

The researchers estimate that the most recent common ancestor of today's calyptrate flies lived about 70 million years ago — that is, just before the Cretaceous - Paleogene boundary; that the radiation of oestroids began about 50 million years ago; and that the family M. caenozoica belongs to (Mesembrinellidae) originated about 40 million years ago.