Sentences with phrase «cultural innovation»

Again, our early populations were probably low, and there's evidence the rate of cultural innovation is partly a function of population size.

These are concerned with the fact that cultural producers actually do something to generate cultural innovations.

Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research.

As for the role of population size in spurring our evolution, he and Wang had not given it much thought, but they saw the idea as complementary to their own view, since cultural innovations allowed more people to survive.

The Basques were slow to adopt farming and other cultural innovations when they were introduced into Europe from the east.

Professor Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum commented, «The correspondence between climatic ameliorations and cultural innovations supports the view that population growth fuelled cultural changes, through increased human interactions.»

«Stone Age technological and cultural innovation accelerated by climate change.»

He adds that the shell beads come from a time when overall cultural innovation among early humans appears to have been speeding up, as evidenced by the short - lived nature of the Still Bay itself, which was soon replaced with other stone and bone tool styles.

«The most distinct of the many cultural innovations in the HP culture were the invention of the bow and arrow, different methods of heating raw materials (stone) before knapping to produce arrow heads, engraving ostrich eggshells with elaborate patterns, intensive use of hearths and relatively intense hunting and gathering practices,» says Professor Christopher Henshilwood, one of the team members from Wits and Bergen Universities.

The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.

AYO in English means goodbye and originated from The Collectives» promise to carry the torch of cultural innovation passed on by the lateAndy Palacio.

Taking place at over 80 of New York's most exciting art and cultural venues, Performa 09 was created as a collaboration between all of these moving parts, so a portrait of the city's remarkable history of cultural innovation also emerges from these pages.

Abstract Expressionism holds a special place on a list of iconic American cultural innovations, along with Jazz, the electric guitar and television.

Truly modern language, akin to languages spoken today, may thus have been the key cultural innovation that allowed the emergence of these and other hallmarks of behavioral modernity and ultimately led to our colonization of the globe.»

Centre for Social Innovation CSI is specifically designed for organizations focused on changing the world through economic, environmental, social, and cultural innovations, whether they're nonprofits or for - profits.

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

The growth equation was derived with certain conditions that are determined by the cultural innovation that dominates each historic period: iron, computers, whatever it is.

It is a cultural innovation, an especially vicious, persistent meme, which culture can help us transcend.

University College London archaeologist Stephen Shennan has proposed that cultural innovations were likely due to increased contact among humans as they began living in ever - larger groups.

«Primates were assumed to have no control over their calls,» says Madeleine Hardus, a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who classifies the orangutans» ability to alter their standard call as «a cultural innovation.»

However, if greater economic dynamism, more powerful incentives for creativity, cultural innovation, greater opportunity for material comfort, greater acceptance of diversity, and greater personal liberty are taken as measures of societal well - being, then the United States might be better.

Few destinations can compare to the historical significance, diverse cuisine, and cultural innovation of Boston.

A hub for creativity and cultural innovation since 1871, SFAI's Public Programs seek new forms of exchange between the SFAI community, artists, and the public.

«Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933 — 1957,» a 2016 traveling exhibition organized by Helen Molesworth for the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, surveyed the cultural innovation fostered at the school.