Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more
complex than that of humans.
Simply put, Caesar is more dense and
complex than any of his human co-stars (including James Franco as the revolutionary — or is that evolutionary?
Not exact matches
Instead, the technical and emotional guidance that only a trusted,
human advisor (as opposed to robo - advisors, for instance) can offer to investors who are attempting to undertake the
complex job
of coordinating the accumulation, distribution and transfer
of their wealth, is invaluable — particularly in an environment that is likely to deliver lower returns and higher volatility
than investors have grown accustomed to recently.
Evolution — including what Mr Ham would call «micro-evolution» resulting in variations within a species (like the degrees
of melanin concentration in the
human species) takes longer
than a couple
of thousand years in a
complex organism.
It is far more challenging when trying to replicate processes
of nature, because nature is wildy more
complex than any
human engineering, but as we get smarter and learn more we come closer adn closer to being able to simulate natural conditions and create the expected results.
If the totality
of reality is far more
complex than we have ever recognized, then it may be that profound
human experience in different times and places has brought to light many
of the important patterns that are to be found within it.
There are more
complex, more important
human questions
than have been addressed by either the stern denunciations
of divorce or the accommodating «cheap grace» efforts to bless divorce — or by the heralding
of divorce as a liberation from outmoded bourgeois morality.
In Christian perspective, it can be affirmed that the created realm reflects the being
of its creator, and so is immeasurably more
complex than any single
human, or any single school
of historical analysis, can fathom.
It takes more faith to believe in all these accidental / abnormal processes from billions
of years ago that eventually lead to intelligent and
complex human beings
than beiliving a Creator God.
You said, «It takes more faith to believe in all these accidental / abnormal processes from billions
of years ago that eventually lead to intelligent and
complex human beings
than beiliving a Creator God.»
I am not convinced that this objectification
of humanity into victim and executioner does justice to the complexity
of the
human individual or to the dynamic
of evil... The web that unites victim and tyrant in the same person is more
complex than the white hat / black hat caricature that seems banal even in its natural habitat, the «grade B» movie.
The discoveries
of Copernicus and the atomic theory are instances
of this, and so was romanticism, with its discovery that the
human subject is richer and more
complex than enlightenment or idealism had allowed, and nationalism, with its new realization
of the importance
of history and the tradition
of peoples.
The intricacy and unity
of the
human situation before God is not less dynamic and
complex than the one we encounter in nature when we explore the energetic world
of the atom or
of a sidereal system.
For example, if the coordinated form
of human activity involved is more
complex than driving on a particular side
of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.
What hinders and even prevents us from advancing beyond this point is our evident inability to conceive
of anything more organically
complex or psychically centrated
than the
human type emerging in Nature as it now is.
Contrary to popular opinion, the Catholic Church offers a rich and multidimensional understanding
of what it means for
humans to be male and female, far more
complex than the unisex vision
of many feminists.
Man is ontologically no more or less real
than any other kind
of complex, and
human orders are continuous with other orders
of nature.
And the
human brain is incomparably more
complex in its organization
than any other state
of matter
of which we are aware.
Or as he puts it, there is no such thing as entirely uninterpreted fact, any more
than there is any such thing as an «action» in the world which has no valuation judgement attached to it in the
complex reality
of human experience.
An interesting study
of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures model» (which he takes as a single
complex model involving both divine and
human natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number
of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories
of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption
of an abstract
human nature rather
than the personal individuality
of a particular man.
Questions such as whether the language
of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the
human person is anything more
than a
complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths
of religion — all
of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.
The process
of learning Jesus must be, for each individual person who undertakes it, even more
complex than the process
of learning another
human being.
Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavio
Of course, reality is a lot more complicated
than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a
complex brain, and
human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer
of culture and other learned behavio
of culture and other learned behavior.
Her example also served as a demonstration for speaker Paul Scherz
of how
human beings are much more
than just
complex computers, at least partly because we have physical bodies, or are «embodied.»
Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece
of ochre, the oldest known art
of its type — suggest early
humans were capable
of modern,
complex behaviors much earlier
than once thought.
Human musk is a
complex medley
of skin, sweat and bacteria, and scientists still do not know why one person's skin makes for a more attractive dish
than her or his neighbor's.
In a
human brain, 85 billion nerve cells communicate via trillions
of connections using
complex patterns
of electrical jolts and more
than 100 different chemicals.
At one end
of the scale are the repetitive «click working» tasks that are too
complex for a computer to handle but little more
than child's play for
humans.
Those equine expressions are far richer and more
complex than previously believed, and some are surprisingly similar to those
of humans, the researchers say.
«I'm not saying that everyone who has influenza is cognitively impaired for 10 years,» he says, noting that
human brains are much more
complex than those
of mice.
The study has produced more
than 20 publications examining a range
of complex human conditions, including cardiovascular disease, breast and lung cancer, and type I and II diabetes.
Rather
than emerging from one small population, the
human species likely evolved from a dispersed,
complex network
of groups that mixed and mated with each other, scientists report online September 20 in Science.
Their analysis reveals that the grammar
of the genetic code is much more
complex than that
of even the most
complex human languages.
A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet shows that the «grammar»
of the
human genetic code is more
complex than that
of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.
Human alteration
of Earth systems tends to be far more extensive and
complex than one would expect based on numbers alone.
It was found that
complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit
of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather
than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for
human skin.
Just as
humans benefit from having five senses rather
than just one, employing a variety
of intellectual approaches vastly expands our ability to understand the
complex world around us.
By studying other parts
of the brain in both
humans and monkeys, however, a team from Johns Hopkins University has now concluded that last - minute decision - making is a lot more complicated
than previously known, involving
complex neural coordination among multiple brain areas.
Suspecting that the disease works differently in
humans, whose brains are much bigger and more
complex than those
of lab animals, Brivanlou, along with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a cell - based
human system for their research.
Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment
of a
complex subject that does not take proper account
of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more
than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state
of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced
human society as well.
That is why surgical robots have never been more
than large,
complex instruments wielded by
human hands: an autonomous robot with a scalpel is too much
of a risk.
Lori Marino, a neuroscientist and cetacean expert at Emory University, kicked things off, her soft features belying her outsize thesis: Pound for pound, dolphins are better endowed with gray matter
than most primates, falling just short
of humans, and the neocortex
of their brain is just as
complex as our own.
The latest molecular analyses and fossil finds suggest that the story
of human evolution is far more
complex — and more interesting —
than anyone imagined
The
human brain,
of course, remains much more complicated
than any
of the models; it is larger, denser, more efficient, more interconnected, has more
complex neurons — and juggles several algorithms simultaneously.
Recent advances in optical physics have made it possible to use fluorescent microscopy to study
complex structures smaller
than 200 nanometres (nm)-- around 500 times smaller
than the width
of a
human hair.
He thus doubts whether science can compile a dictionary for decoding the neural signals corresponding to
human memories, which are surely more
complex, variable, and context sensitive
than those
of rats.
Hundreds
of thousands
of artifacts, including intricate and elaborate hand - woven baskets excavated between 2007 and 2013 in Huaca Prieta, reveal that early
humans in that region were a lot more advanced
than originally thought and had very
complex social networks.
In
humans, the cerebellum's extensive connectivity with the rest
of the brain suggests it does far more
than learn motor skills: it has been shown to have a part in both perception and cognition, with recent work linking cerebellar dysfunction to such
complex diseases as schizophrenia and autism.
«The existence
of a motif means our predictive model can be based on a relatively simple mathematical formula rather
than on more
complex econometrics that try to account for all the different types
of human behavior,» says González, the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT's Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).
«While previous work has typically started with the premise that leadership is somehow intrinsically different or more
complex in
humans than in other mammals, we started without a perceived notion about whether this should be the case,» said Jennifer Smith
of Mills College in Oakland, California.