Sentences with phrase «ancient humans are»

This contrasts with many archaeological sites in Russia, Europe, and the Americas where ancient humans are rarely directly related to living people nearby, thanks to wholesale migration and mixing since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

Ironically, some of the best DNA sources for extinct species and ancient humans are specimens nobody has tried to preserve.

Ancient humans weren't that dumb.

On land, for example, there is evidence that ancient humans were responsible for the massacre of mammoths and other megafauna across the globe.

However, none of the ancient humans was yet adapted to digest milk sugar into adulthood.

A new study of ancient beaded jewelry from a South African cave finds that ancient humans were no different, avoiding outdated styles as early as 75,000 years ago.

Gleaning the entire genetic code of ancient humans is pretty hard.

A finger bone is pointing to what scientists are calling a new understanding of how ancient human beings came out of Africa and began settling the...

And to suggest that ancient humans were more carnivorous than bears and even our genetic counterparts, apes and chimpanzees, is sort of ridiculous.

Not exact matches

It turns out that these long - lived fishes, who are our ancient evolutionary cousins, share the core of an adaptive immune system with human beings.

Instead of the robust features he was accustomed to seeing on the faces of an ancient human ancestor like Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, this face bore a striking resemblance to his own.

«We are not pursuing A.I. to beat humans at games,» said Nadella, taking a subtle hit at competitors like Google and IBM, whose A.I. technologies got some attention for beating humans at the ancient Chinese board game Go and on the game show Jeopardy.

A hedge fund manager is the latest to embark on one of the most ancient of human quests: immortality.

Social media may be new, he adds, but it resembles a very ancient form of human communication.

AlphaGo, an algorithm that's made headlines for mastering the ancient Chinese board game of Go and defeating some of the best human players in the world, has been modified and reprogrammed into a new AI called AlphaGo Zero.

Humans have known that the earth is round since the time of Ancient Greece.

Any large - scale human cooperation — whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe — is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination.

Get rid of all human discriminating religions, or let them evolve; but since their evolution is not possible, let them die like the other ancient myths.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

They only found 20 missing links between modern human and ancient ape, but heck, you said it, so it must be right.

You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.

If a Bible verse (or discovery) is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical or metaphorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

The Bible (OT) is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good advice for practical, beneficial human behavior, but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

What you call peering into the mind of god thru this ancient books is simply peering into the minds of primitive humans that lived in darkness, both literally and mentally.

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

It does not describe said individuals and their posterity, ancient or modern, as of less worth, or value as human beings than any other group.

They belong to us for some of the same reasons they were practised by ancient Pythagoreans and modern Buddhists: natural, human religious wisdom acknowledges that the body must be tamed before the soul.

How many bones of ancient humans and our ancestors do they have to dig up to «prove» that the world was not created 6,000 years ago?

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Oh yes, the ancient Hebrew people didn't consider a baby to be human until it took its first breath.

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Just because it's in an ancient book, is no reason a modern human should pay any attention to it, TP.

2 There is an ancient debate regarding whether all human action (and, therefore, all political action) is solely in pursuit of self - interest.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

We are simply not claiming to know what god is, what god wants or to think that humans are moral and good because they follow some ancient scripture — or not.

There's an ancient human dream to be tiny: to make a hammock from a leaf and sup on nectar, to soar on a falcon's back.

The tales of Gawain and the Green Knight, The Song of Roland, The Exploits of Ivanhoe — these are the ancient games in which human beings have for centuries found refreshment.

Some of the ancients knew that to honour marriage was to affirm the goodness of the body, of embodied love and new human life.

Disputed questions about the nature of Christ's divinity or the details of human salvation are not ancient quarrels that modern Christians ought to forget.

Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient man, but who was known to them in the sphere of human history as the deepest reality confronting them there.

Some modern humans are more like their ancient forbears than they like to think.

Peter, Peter, Peter, Before the bible there were the Codes of Hammurabi and the Egyptian Books of the Dead and other ancient rules of life for humans to follow.

Ancient Israel takes for granted in her story that the determinative factor in all human events and in all creation is outside and above event and time.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

Just because something's written in an ancient scroll, that got non-unanimously VOTED by humans into a set of books, does not mean it's true.

But if you see the Bible as a human product, then the Genesis stories of creation are ancient Israel's stories of creation.

«He reversed a pattern in human behavior so ancient that its origins lay shrouded in the mists of time: that when weapons are developed, they will be used.»

The immediate implication of this, which is really my second statement in shorthand form, is that the Bible is thus a human product, namely, the response of two ancient communities to their experience of the Sacred.

Things are looking up, and the credit goes to the human desire for betterment, not blind faith in muddied ancient dogmas.