Sentences with phrase «because modern humans»

Part of the reason its impact can be hard to understand is because modern humans have never faced a threat like this before.

And because modern humans didn't leave Africa until approximately 100,000 years ago, the structures must have been made by Neandertals, she adds.

* Because modern humans are believed to have originated in Africa, if Neandertals diverged from modern humans before present - day populations began to differentiate, one would expect Neandertal sequences to match sequences from non-Africans and Africans to the same extent.

The Kanapoi elbow, dated at 4.5 million, is «fully human», so all these australopithecines and whatnot can not be ancestral to us because a modern human was already in existence; his thorough - or, let us say, thoroughly selective - combing of the literature has overlooked a paper by Marc R. Feldesman (1982, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 59:73 - 95) which finds that Kanapoi is very far from being modern human.

Reality: This statement is basically meaningless because modern Human civilisation has developed within and is dependent upon a reasonably stable climate.

Not exact matches

Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years, Christianity for about 2,000... I feel bad for all of those billions of humans who are rotting in hell right now because they never had a chance to know of Christ.

Furthermore, we live in a world where slavery was condoned for a while and now in modern America it is taboo because owning another human being is a reprehensible act.

It's more important because, as Hart rightly diagnoses, the modern mind is trapped in various false dichotomies — like thinking one has to be a personal theist or an anti-theist, or that the human person is either a ghost in a machine or a machine - generating ghost — and these false dichotomies themselves make it impossible for us to think rationally about topics such as natural law.

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

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Modern moral and political thought has often focused on the question of human rights: What rights, if any, belong to all human individuals solely because they are human?

The modern industrial worker has to perform meaningless and mechanical work because of an inhuman utilization of human power without regard to the worthiness of the work performed.

It is this one - sidedness we have to correct because we do not want to give up the human achievements of the modern period.

Darwin's theory of evolution, as understood by most of the modern scientific community, has nothing to say about the «gap» between humans and «lower» animals, because no such gap is recognized.

The Holy See might also have taken a leaf from John Paul's 1991 social encyclical Centesimus Annus and boldly urged the view that human beings are the basic resource for development, because the source of wealth in the modern world is human creativity.

The biblical answer to the problem of evil in human history is a radical answer, precisely because human evil is recognized as a much more stubborn fact than is realized in some modern versions of the Christian faith.

Moderns have found Augustine's transcendent basis for temporal meaning incredible, and have believed instead that time is meaningful because the human powers of science, reason and morals will progressively lead toward a perfection that can not be lost.

The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical cultures had, how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated and frustrated in authoritarian societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the human spirit.

It is well known that some of the most significant atheism in the modern intellectual world has been aroused because of the apparent impossibility of reconciling the idea of God with the fact of human freedom and creativity.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

The answer may well be that modern humans have inherited a genetic bias towards in ammation because this response, with its associated depressive symptoms, enhanced survival and reproduction in the highly pathogenic environments present in our human evolution.

The dynamics of modern «secular culture» have their roots in a concept of humanism derived from the Christian gospel but that because of the failure of the churches to respond positively to the values that emerged in Christian culture as implication of Christian humanism, they were sought to be realized in human history under the dynamic of «secularist ideologies of humanism» in opposition to the Christian faith.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Now I am well aware that one of our modern humanists might interrupt at this stage and say, «Now your religion, your belief in God and immortality are put up by your mind, simply because it will not face the true facts — the utter loneliness and futility of human living.»

The missional approach is different than modern evangelicalism, particularly in this region, because «the work of salvation, in its full sense, is 1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; 2) about the present, not simply the future; and 3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.»

This objection has only been able to gain force because people have begun associating modern ideas of the human person with the «person» of the Trinity.

Because of a naturally occurring genetic mutation in European herds, another milk protein, A1, appeared and spread worldwide due to human migration and modern farming practices.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

And leading the world in cracking down on modern slavery — because if you are buying and selling another human being, you are undermining all that is right.

At more than 300,000 years old, Olorgesailie is significant because this kind of interaction is a hallmark of modern humans that researchers previously thought developed around 100,000 years ago.

Modern - day cannibalism is fascinating because it is widely seen as an extreme anomaly of human behaviour — either a last - ditch bid to survive or a sick crime perpetrated by a madman.

The Neandertal species did not go extinct, because it was never a separate species; instead population pockets of Neandertals died out around 30,000 years ago, whereas other Neandertal populations survived through interbreeding with their modern human brothers and sisters, who live on to this day.

The South African archaeological record is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence for modern behavior in early humans.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

Because if some genius Neandertal invents a new kind of hand axe — and they used the same kind for so long, for tens and tens [of] thousands of years — but if somebody in the cave invents a new one, it's not going to spread beyond that cave probably, it might not even spread that much within the cave; it's [likely] to die with him; whereas the modern humans have this thing of watching each other and teaching other and spreading things among themselves among one another, so that 10,000 or so --[it] might have been a few more, I know that the people are not too clear about that might — there might only have been 10,000 Neandertals all over Europe.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.

Because of this, modern humans eventually replaced Neandertals.

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

Although Châtelperronian artifacts closely resemble those made by modern humans, many researchers have attributed them to Neandertals because they have sometimes been found with Neandertal fossils.

Additionally, she peers beyond the traditional boundaries of science and explains that because of the advancements in our understanding of the universe through modern physics, religious faith is best relegated to the social and psychological dimensions of the human mind.

Researchers had assumed they died out because they weren't as smart or as good at manipulating tools as modern humans.

Because scientists know Neandertals and modern humans mated with each other, «is it possible that the «modern» DNA these late Neandertal groups picked up included genes for enhanced cognitive abilities?»

Triple - negative cancers are so called because they do not express receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, nor for HER2 (human epidermal growth factor 2), and hence patients with these cancers are not candidates for treatment with modern hormonal therapies or the highly effective HER2 - targeted drug Herceptin (trastuzumab).

Then again, modern humans may have formed more widespread alliances merely because their population density was higher.

If the Neanderthals didn't lose out because of their inferior social skills, maybe they interbred with modern humans and simply disappeared into the larger population.