Sentences with phrase «debate about the origins»

By doing so, he stepped into a centuries - old debate about the origins and future of the oppressive social institution.

Recent scholarly studies such as by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini have reopened the debate about the origins of priestly celibacy, arguing that the Eastern practice is not ancient but an accommodation to lapses among married clergy.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

The team behind the study further suggests that the Yamnaya people spoke either PIE or an early form of Indo - European language and brought it to central Europe, coming down on one side of a long - standing debate about the origins of PIE.

The findings may solve a long - standing debate about the origin of canine intuition and may provide new clues to the genetics of cognition.

University of California at Los Angeles scientist Robert K. Wayne brought the power of modern genetics to bear on this old debate about the origin of dogs.

«There has been an intense debate about the origin of the strange properties of water for over a century since the early work of Wolfgang Röntgen,» Nilsson said in the press release.

A fingerprint has intensified the debate about the origin of a mysterious drawing sold at auction for $ 21,850.

There was considerable debate about the origin of the brilliant sunsets and the eruption also inspired artists.

A debate about the origin of the driving forces of plate tectonics dates back to the early 1970s.

However, there continues to be much debate about the origins of the child's reaction in the Strange Situation, and about what factors influence the development of an infant's attachment relationships.

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Second, while the debate may seem to be about the relevance of archaeology for understanding ancient Israel's origins and early history the divisive issue is not the relevance of archaeology but the way archaeological evidence is interpreted.

It is possible to talk about the origins debate with an attitude of respect and humility.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

Birmingham, U.K. — A provocative new theory about the origin of «mad cow disease» and its human counterpart stirred debate at the annual International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology here yesterday.

The researchers argue that quantitative and statistical methods provide a better way to settle debates about human origins than the descriptive analyses that have been used in the past.

The debate underscores how little is known about the biological origins and onset of schizophrenia itself, as well as how best to treat its early stages.

It «reopens the debate,» they write, «about the origins of our own peculiar commitment to bipedal locomotion.»

A student named John Ostrom picked up where Brown left off, renaming the specimen and rejuvenating the century - old debate about the evolutionary origin of birds.

That debate may continue, but the one about Ata's extraterrestrial origins should definitely end, says William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook's School of Medicine.

«This is a major breakthrough since the study combines information about the timing and energy of X-ray photons to settle the 30 - year debate around the origin of QPOs.

Now arsenic is at the heart of a debate which could overturn everyone's ideas about the origins of metalworking in the British Isles.

«The story that the bonobo can be safely ignored or marginalized from debates about human origins is now off the table,» says de Waal.

And while the origins of modern human behavior have been widely debated, there has been much less discussion about the evolution of modern human anatomy.

«What surprised me the most about the modern human origins debate when I first started learning about it is how little people really knew about what is going on in Asia,» Bae said.

While questions related to the when and where of humanity's origins remain hotly debated, one matter about our collective genetic makeup is clearer: All humans appear to be hominid hybrids, made up of DNA from different and distinct populations.

There has been an active debate about Sedna's origin.

There is great debate about the precise origin of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, also known as the Cav, the Cavalier and the Cavie.

About 40 years after the first edition of The Origin of Continents and Oceans was published, the first evidence of rock magnetism and sea floor spreading emerged, and a new generation of geologists, who had grown up outside of the old debates, began to accept the theory of continental drift.

«There is a «false sense somehow that there is a two - sided debate going on in the scientific community» about the origins of climate change, said Bob Ward, the senior manager for policy communication at the Royal Society.