Sentences with phrase «as homo»

As Homo Sapiens, we are still part of the animal realm, and we carry with us both a reptilian brain and a mammalian brain that sometimes override our prefrontal cortex.

There's not really room on TreeHugger to go into all the nuances of why these different visions of economic planning have failed to protect Mother Earth from her rapacious creation known as homo sapiens doing its darndest to commit matricide, but the quick version is this: There has been no major economic system to date that has properly valued the environment, incorporating the true and full costs of depleting natural resources into the price paid for those resources.

«So we, as Homo sapiens, are intimately linked to the climate, no doubt.»

Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

If the relatively small planet we inhabit is finite, then the endless consumption, production and propagation activities of so dominant a species as Homo sapiens can not continue much longer, let alone indefinitely.

In hindsight it's to be expected from a species that evolved culture, i.e. non-genetic propagation of individually adaptive behavior over generations, as Homo sapiens has.

Human beings have been around in one form or another for two and a half million years, first as homo habilis, then as homo erectus, and finally as homo sapiens.

Meanwhile, remains from Blombos Cave show the start of painting as homo sapiens started to migrate out of Africa.

This exhibit is a play of Bosslet's three practices, which are sculpture, painting and installation, each insisting on the notion of artist as homo faber — builder of meanings, as opposed to producer of beautiful knick - knacks or objets d'art.

The works of Jesper Just (born 1974) have often been interpreted as homo - erotic, but the word «queer» with all its connotations would perhaps be more appropriate.

Before becoming homo sapiens (knowing man), humankind was also known as homo imaginans (imagining man).

Perhaps our denomination as homo sapiens is appropriate after all.

The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hopes, dreams, and desires as Homo sapiens evolve — or not — into their next incarnation.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Homo sapiens: Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong and the only member of the genus Homo that is not extinct.

Another view of the Denisova cave, for which the Denisovans are named, as the Homo species was first described based on molecular data from Denisova Cave.

Lubenow's book is the best general creationist expose of human evolution so far published, although I disagree strongly with his willingness to accept the KNM - ER 1470 skull (classified as Homo habilis) as probably human.

Rosas said that some people think the last common ancestor «was Homo heidelbergensis; others think it was an earlier species, such as Homo antecessor.»

Actually, Neandertals are usually classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a subspecies of humans, in recognition of consistent differences such as heavy brow ridges, a long low skull, a robust skeleton, and others.

Tobias (1991) classes it as Homo erectus without discussion.

Many researchers over the years have wondered why these brainy individuals then went extinct, but because Neanderthal DNA remains in current populations, these hominids were probably just absorbed into what is now known as Homo sapiens.

Fossils of the Lorenyang Lake period are varied and rich, from hominins such as Homo habilis to organisms Homo habilis may have eaten: fish and shellfish, plants, and birds.

In addition, the so - called «hobbits,» a short species known to scientists as Homo floresiensis, also may have evolved from other isolated humanlike species.

Analysis of Neo and the other remains reveals that H. naledi had features that are shared with some of the earliest known fossil members of our genus, such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, species that lived two million years ago.

This fossil is a partial skull with very thick bones thought to be an archaic Homo sapiens (sometimes classified as Homo heidelbergensis), and about 200,000 to 300,000 years old.

This feature indicates the influence of electrons occupying the orbital just below the N2 HOMO, referred to as the HOMO - 1.

We decided to consider not only australopithecines, but also some early Homo individuals, in order to emphasise that the estimated stature of S1 can be comparable to that of more derived taxa, such as Homo erectus sensu lato.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even olderAustralopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

«To me, having studied virtually the entire human fossil record, the specimens lumped together as Homo naledi represent two cranial morphs,» says Jeffrey Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh in Philadelphia.

Because people must have traveled across the islands of Southeast Asia to get to Australia, the date suggests humans were moving through Indonesia at the same time as Homo floresiensis, the tiny extinct human nicknamed «the hobbit,» was living on the island of Flores; the last date for that species is 60,000 years ago, although so far there's no evidence of encounters between humans and hobbits.

That would be unusual: Scientists have long held that the brain only became larger as Homo species evolved.

Most disruptive of all is the suggestion that not all the species grouped within our own genus are necessarily from a single lineage — or that, perhaps, some of the species considered Homo, such as Homo habilis, are really australopiths.

After all, at the core of economic theory sits a greedy idealization of human nature known as Homo economicus.

The shells were excavated by the Dutch physician and researcher Eugène Dubois, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus erectus — now known as Homo erectus.

A half - million years ago, the brains of our ancestors started to grow again; 200,000 years ago they finally reached about the same weight as Homo sapiens brains today.

You mention the possibility that five other hominins co-existed in Africa at the same time as Homo habilis, each with...

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

The ASU team does rule out A. sediba from South Africa as the Homo ancestor, because at 1.9 million years old it is too recent.

They conclude with high statistical confidence that none of the hominins usually proposed as a common ancestor, such as Homo heidelbergensis, H. erectus and H. antecessor, is a satisfactory match.

Java Man was reclassified in the 1950s as Homo erectus and is now called Trinil 2, in reference to the excavation site.

But as my A.S.U. colleague Kim Hill has put it, Even before the invention of agriculture, human communities may have eventually numbered around 70 million individuals... as Homo sapiens spread over the planet more broadly than any other large vertebrate.

Thus it is — revealing the identity of my example — that we must reclassify Homo neanderthalensis as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a subspecies of Homo sapiens.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even older Australopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don't agree on much: perhaps the only things they have in common besides being classified as Homo sapiens are their personal ambition and a profound aversion to having the press mucking around in their business.

It is generally accepted as fact that prior to some precise point in the past - of which the actual moment in time is not important for discussion - that there was no such thing as a homo sapien.

The awesome freedom made possible by human self - consciousness — by our condition as homo sapiens — is indeed the source of the world's wars and insanities and perversions.

For their purposes they viewed people as Homo economicus, and Homo economicus is an individual interested only in possession and consumption of goods.

The late Alexander Schmemann once wrote that secularization is the «negation of worship,» of man as homo adorans, of man as priest.

The features of the human being identified as Homo economicus are abstracted from the complex fullness of human existence.

We are Homo politicus as well as Homo economicus.

It is based on the conception of humanity as homo performans, that is, creatures who define themselves to themselves and others through verbal and gestural, individual and communal, ritual and aesthetic acts.