Sentences with phrase «average small humans»

If your kids are anything like the average small humans, they might be glued to screens all day, or maybe they are constantly whining that they are bored.

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A small dose of 1.56 µM, which is approximately equivalent to a daily dose of the drug in a human cancer patients, increased the fruit flies» average life expectancy by 8 %.

Indonesia's enigmatic «hobbits» were no more than average humans whose small stature, tiny brains, and peculiar anatomy were caused by a severe lack of iodine before birth, a new study claims.

They found that in small primates such as spider monkeys, weighing about 6 kilograms, mutations — substitutions of DNA bases — occurred about twice as rapidly as in humans, who weigh on average 70 kilograms.

Animals that are routinely subject to pursuit are, on average, 20 percent smaller and reproduce at a 25 percent younger age than what would be expected without human influence, the researchers determined.

The population of any given animal among the five million or so species on the planet is, on average, 28 percent smaller, thanks to humans.

Modern men of that stature would be expected to have a larger than average brain size, but the Turkana Boy's estimated adult brain size of 910 cc is smaller than all but a fraction of 1 % of modern humans of all sizes and both sexes.

H. erectus was smaller than the average human today, with an appropriately smaller head (and brain size).

This is smaller than most modern humans but by no means all of them, and it is larger on average than pygmies.

They found that the average female mannequin body size was that of a «extremely underweight human women,» while the same was true of only a small percentage of male mannequins.

Oligosaccharides, except maltotriose, are indigestible, which means humans lack enzymes to break them down in the small intestine, so they reach the large intestine, where beneficial colonic bacteria break them down (ferment) to absorbable nutrients, which provide some energy — about 2 Calories (kilocalories) per gram in average [1].

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

The equivalent of middle age in humans is approximately 5 years in the average sized dog (30 to 40 lbs); younger in large and giant breeds and slightly older in toy and small breeds.

Even if the myths are true, and CO2 does have some small warming effect, that warmth will only bring us closer to the Holocene average, opening farmland in higher latitude as the continued growth of human population utilises that enhanced atmospheric CO2 to feed itself.

Being sensitive means we need to look long and hard for the smallest nit in the natter — the invisible nuance — i.e., we must continue to ignore the failure of Western education and their miserable performance based on the all too easily measureable product that is coming out of the state - run dropout factories — and, rename the earnings of the productive so that now our paychecks are government revenues needed to invest in teasing out some unmeasurable human influence on a mythical 30 year average global temperature.

They are strong on the annual level and they vary quite strongly from year to year, but main stream view is that they average to a small influence in comparison with the human one.

Only a small minority of qualified scientists doubts the view that human causes are playing a significant role in recent average global temperature increases.

The big problem is that human civilization is extremely sensitive to small changes in the long - term average temperature.