Sentences with phrase «complex culture»

That pattern may help explain how early hominids, despite their smaller brains, gradually developed complex cultures.

In these states, a more general belief in supernatural punishment did tend to precede political complexity, the research finds, but belief in supreme deities emerged after complex cultures have already formed.

After millennia of sluggish progress, humans abruptly showed signs of complex culture about 30,000 years ago.

What more do you need to bring together the many ethnic groups that between them speak more than 700 different languages and dialects, and have created an incredibly complex culture over the centuries.

The fourth distinctive characteristic is a biological organism that can not survive unless sustained by the resources of a complex culture, therefore an organism that has evolved not like other organisms by eliminating the unfit in the struggle with the physical environment, but by eliminating those organisms unfit to absorb and sustain the complexities of a culture progressively accumulated through the sequence of many generations.

The modernizing forces of technology, bureaucracy, urbanization and communication appear more and more to be the problems rather than, as they once did, the panaceas to the dislocations of our complex culture.

Besides, we made marriage up several millennia ago and there's no reason we can't remake the rules now to fit more of who we have become — a higher functioning, complex culture.

They have complex cultures and are guided by strict, prosocial moral codes.

China: Portrait of a Country compiled by Pulitzer Prize - winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing, and with thoughtful, intelligently nuanced essays on Chinese history and photography by journalist James Kynge and art critic Karen Smith, focuses on an often mysterious and complex culture.

Its complex culture, and long ties to Christianity, makes Ethiopia a fascinating country to visit.

Specializing in seasonal fare using many locally sourced ingredients, the Museum restaurant, led by chef Andy Hicks, features culinary works of art that showcase a complex culture of flavors.

Her lecture will be followed by a film entitled Der Wille zur Macht, by artist Pablo Sigg, which narrates the history of Nueva Germania, a colony founded by Elisabeth Nietzsche (sister of Friedrich) and her husband in the Paraguayan jungle, exploring their claims to the land and the complex culture that sprouted around and through their settlement.