Sentences with phrase «before human species»

So originally the whole of nature before human species made different enclosures.

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

Not exact matches

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Many species clearly demonstrate the same principle, so it is an evolved trait among social animals, and existed long before humans or any of the religions man has created.

I am an intelligent, rational human being, a member of an ethical species that was ethical long before religion raised its smelly head to tell us we were sinners.

«There would, however, be a method by which, if the orangutan and others were of the human species, the crudest observers could assure themselves of it even by demonstration; but since a single generation would not suffice for this experiment, it must be considered impracticable, because it would be necessary for what is only an hypothesis to be already proved true before the experiment that was to prove it true could be tried innocently.»

«Instead of fitting into a natural world as best they could — like every creature before — the human species consciously took control away from Mother Nature and into its own hands through a process we now refer to as the Agricultural revolution.»

The time will probably come when humans are extinct on this changing planet, like so many species before them.

The much better looking Grudem, a professor at Phoenix Seminary and past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, had similarly jarred me two years before when, speaking at a fundraising dinner ostensibly focused on the stewardship of creation, he smilingly advocated the extinction of a species to satisfy human appetites.

For them, possibilities not only of advance but also of decline, even of the destruction of the human species, lay before us.

The team found the speed of evolution of placental mammals — a group that today includes nearly 5000 species including humans — was constant before the extinction event but exploded after, resulting in the varied groups of mammals we see today.

A research team found the speed of evolution of placental mammals — a group that today includes nearly 5000 species including humans — was constant before the extinction event but exploded after, resulting in the varied groups of mammals we see today.

There, it adapts to a mammalian species, before it is passed to humans.

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

And perhaps most impressive of all, before the telegraph could even be considered a means of interpersonal communication, somebody — Samuel Morse — needed to think up a system by which the infinite variety of concrete, abstract, and usually self - serving statements that a human being might wish to share with a species - mate could be reduced to pulses of electricity.

And the environmental pollution that is getting into the air, the water, the carpets in our houses, the household products that we're using... We are under an assault unlike anything the human species has ever before experienced.

It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2 - week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.

This evidence indicates that LB1 is not a modern human with an undiagnosed pathology or growth defect; rather, it represents a species descended from a hominin ancestor that branched off before the origin of the clade that includes modern humans, Neandertals, and their last common ancestor.

Reports went viral over the weekend that Herbert Lutz at the Museum of Natural History in Mainz, Germany, had discovered a previously unknown European species of ape that had human - like teeth millions of years before African species did.

Although such horses are popular breeds today, scientists didn't think they existed before humans domesticated the species about 5000 years ago.

In addition, some of the oldest Flores remains date back before modern humans were thought to be in the area, which suggests that Flores Man was a distinct species.

And he believes that, in the principal clade to which these birds belong, the behaviour evolved earlier than humans did — because the species in this clade separated genetically before humans emerged.

But Tim White of the University of California argues that more evidence is needed before we can conclude that there were two species of early humans in the area at the time.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

Before humans altered the landscape, it was a mosaic of grasslands and marshes dotted with stands of trees and the occasional isolated oak or lime tree, two species that need ample light to grow.

Abstract To assess the role of human disturbances in species» extinction requires an understanding of the species population history before human impact.

The teeth found in the cave were mistaken for bear teeth until testing revealed them for what they were: another species of human never before seen.

Before the arrival of humans, Mauritius was a land of birds and reptiles; the only mammals endemic to the island were a few species of bats.

They compared the modern rate of species loss to the natural rates of species extinction before human activities dominated Earth, and found that people are actively participating in «a global spasm of biodiversity loss.»

Only subtly distinguishable from modern humans, they clearly reflect a species which, like us, diverged from a common stock and evolved along parallel lines, before their disappearance around 24,000 years ago.

An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 viral species could jump from animals to humans, and researchers hope to identify and counter them before they become the next pandemic.

In 1856, three years before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a group of miners uncovered human fossils in a limestone cave in the Neander Valley of northern Germany — what would later be named Neanderthal 1, the first specimen to be recognized as belonging to another, archaic species ofSpecies, a group of miners uncovered human fossils in a limestone cave in the Neander Valley of northern Germany — what would later be named Neanderthal 1, the first specimen to be recognized as belonging to another, archaic species ofspecies of human.

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, scientists have unearthed the bones of a species of human never seen before.

That suggests Neandertals, an extinct species closely related to humans, used tar well before our own species did.

Now before I tell you the statistic, let's keep an important fact in mind... according to well renowned nutrition author Michael Pollan in his book, In Defense of Food, humankind has historically consumed approximately 80,000 different species of edible plants, animals, and fungi, and approximately 3,000 of those have been widespread foods of the human diet.

I don't have a reference for you, but I remember hearing a talk from another plant based doctor (I think Dr. McDougall, but I could be wrong) that said that milk from other species has to be diluted before it can safely be given to human babies.

There he comes face to face with the alien species known as «mimics» that are killing off the human race, and it's not long before Cage is killed.

Young people will read and research facts around the ethical implications of human intervention in the preservation of species before preparing for and taking part in an organised debate on the motion ««this house believes that humans should do everything that they can to save creatures.

Invasive plants are characterized as plants that are introduced by humans, intentionally or unintentionally, to areas where they have not existed before and have the ability to establish and outcompete native species.

Featuring a giant hogweed, intestines, a giant otter giving birth before a human gaze and a toad doing gymnastics, Ihrman's artworks index debates on our complex and problematic relationship with invasive species and the anthropomorphising of the animal kingdom.

In turn, in order to understand modern civilization, we need to look even farther back, at how humans lived before we became «modern and civilized» and what happened to push our species across that threshold.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

[M] ost species evolved before the Holocene and the contemporary ecosystems that sustain humanity are agroecosystems, urban ecosystems and other human - altered ecosystems....

As I have posted before, I believe that morality itself is most foundationally «about» the sustainable and healthy survival of the human species along with plentiful and healthy biological diversity along with the sustainable health of our home, planet Earth, all accomplished in a way that respects human equality (in important senses) and embraces a living, precious, and somewhat fragile planet.

Before humans drive further species of these intelligent aquatic mammals to extinction, we should at least give serious thought to the lessons which might be learned from this video.

Another fun one could have to do with the human species «as» Odysseus, before he learned to respect nature, before he learned a healthy degree of humility, before Poseidon just about did him in.

I find nothing funny about our pharmaceutical waste, in addition to all the other wastes with which we pollute, impacting the innocent non human species who were here long before we ever showed up.

Before we can find our way forward to a good enough future for our children in a sustainable world, I suppose we must find a way to organize and maintain SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surface of Earth.