Sentences with phrase «by our ancestors before»

Natural childbirth is essentially a birth that could have been had by our ancestors before all the interventions came along.

Not exact matches

We each face judgement based on our actions, not the actions of our parents or ancestors, we need to stop compounding our errors by refusing to see the truth when it is plainly put before us.

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

Indeed, a very early remnant of the witnessing tradition posited a striking contrast, as we have had occasion to notice before in Chapter Two: «The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree» (Acts 5:30, emphasis mine).

The U.S. was founded on God's word by our ancestors, but know most of our culture acts like its all crap and were «too cool for religion» in the end when i'm before my Mighty, All - powerful God, after my earthly body has died and rotting I know for sure he'll say to us all who were faithful «Well done my good and faithful servant.»

Sunday Schools for the nurture of children and youth were extensively employed, especially by the churches which appealed to the older American stock those whose ancestors had come to the Thirteen Colonies before independence.

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Using genetic changes as a molecular clock, they conclude that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diverged perhaps 37,000 years ago, long before Australia and New Guinea were separated by rising seas.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

Before powerful computers were available, scientists constructed evolutionary trees by noting which species share different bumps and grooves, and assessing whether those features (also called characters) were inherited from a common ancestor, or passed along to descendants.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies.

Human ancestors in Africa jettisoned 15.8 million of those DNA base pairs — information - carrying building blocks of DNA often referred to by the letters A, T, G and C — before dispersing around the globe, the researchers discovered.

Living Aborigines carry traces of those two species» DNA, which their ancestors must have acquired by mixing somewhere in Asia before they reached Australia.

Though some speculation is required here, there is general agreement that by the early Pleistocene, around 2 million years ago, the African habitat of our ancestor Homo erectus was much more arid than before, and food was harder to come by.

These variants arose about a half - million years ago, suggesting that human ancestors before that time may have had moderately dark skin, rather than the deep black hue created today by these mutations.

Zinjanthropus: it was indeed displaced by Homo habilis within a few years of its discovery, but even before then it had never been considered to be a human ancestor by anyone but Louis Leakey.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

xviii - xix) Cultivated by ancestors in Africa for ages, black folks» spirit of philanthropy was ingrained way before their arrival on these shores.

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The smooth fox terrier's ancestors are not documented, but the breed was certainly known by 1800 and was already popular before the advent of dog shows.

It marks a distinctive continuum that links their current lives, unalterably influenced by the course of modernity, to those of their ancestors before contact.

But then his ancestors were French aristocrats, the Ducs de Coutard, his parents leading Tory Politicians who sent their little boy to Stowe Public school and Brasenose College, Oxford, before George got a job at the BBC, trolled around the anti-roads protests for a while, sponsored by career diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell, then landing his current job as Guardian columnist.

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I begin by paying my respects to the Kaurna peoples, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today, I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us, And thank you, for your generous welcome to country for all of us.