Sentences with phrase «distant human past»

So understanding how they and their extinct relatives diversified could open a window on how language itself emerged among small social groups in the distant human past.

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It would be otiose to give examples: a distant thunder is in the past as much as a distant star; but no matter how far in time - space a star or galaxy is, it is always faintly immanent in my Here - Now even when its action is below the threshold of human perception; its action can be made visible by a combination of lenses or a prolonged photographic exposure.

An evolutionary perspective is assumed in which human existence is seen as the outcome of a long process of development whose beginnings are lost in the distant past.

Such process includes human history but includes also the dim past studied by the paleontologist and the distant space of the astronomer.

If you could line up photos of every direct ancestor you had going back millions of generations you would notice that you most closely resemble those closest to you in line but, the further distant into the past you go, your ancestors would look less like you and finally less human even.

We are concerned with the stupid things that real humans do when they use books written by con men and theives in the distant past to guide their behavior in the twenty - first century.

They say that humans with big brains, and perhaps great intelligence, occupied a substantial piece of southern Africa in the not very distant past, and that they eventually gave way to smaller - brained, possibly less advanced Homo sapiens — that is, ourselves.

The discovery of ice ages in the distant past proved that climate could change radically over the entire globe, which seemed vastly beyond anything mere humans could provoke.

According to the Wisconsin team, that may be a hint that the template for a healthy human microbiome was set in the distant past, when food from plants made up a larger portion of diet and sugar and fat were less available than in contemporary diets with more meat and processed foods.

But evidence presented at a meeting at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra last month suggests that in the more distant past, the story was different: When humans first landed on isolated islands during the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago and more, their impact was surprisingly light.

In the distant past, humans, like all other mammals today, only produced lactase as young feeding on their mothers» milk; adults were lactose intolerant.

In the not so distant past, humans were nomadic.

I think we are being lulled into a false sense of security; When we humans consider the future our brains are wired to give the recent past a heavier weighting that the distant past, and so we tend to project the recent past into the future.

Jason Dodge deftly uses found objects, changing their context to reveal unexpected histories that reference past human actions and distant locations.

Looking at these circular structures on a wall, the loudest sound in the orchestra is only a distant memory, the rhythms floating somewhere in the past; now the worn scuffs imbue peace and tranquility, an Agnes Martin for the Millennium, windows of human life and expression.

Her work has been seen in the Americas, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia and ranges in subject matter from the historical past to the distant future illuminating issues of race, sex, power and the complexities of the human condition.

But given what I understand to be true, that greater warming has occured than in the distant past than is currently occurring, how can we be so sure we are examining all the right 20th century events, since these earlier warmings were clearly caused by events other than human driven carbon dioxide emissions?

Still, human - caused growth in greenhouse gases is expected to become a new driver of things that have been seen in the distant past as century - long megadroughts, an alarming future by most any measure.

It is not likely to be pleasant and it is probably past time to create some sort of repository for current human knowledge in the hope that it might prove useful in some distant future... perhaps stick it on the moon so the Earthly turmoils will have limited impact and we can assume that the species has once again achieved some technical capabilities.

The discovery in the mid 19th century that there had been ice ages in the distant past proved that climate could change radically over much of the globe, a change vastly beyond anything mere humans seemed able to cause.

The Earth has been hotter in the distant past, before human civilization arose — a result of natural processes and orbital shifts.

Humans have been through climate changes before - but mostly cold ones and mostly in our far distant past.

Presumably, the CO2 enriched atmosphere was also a factor and as the CO2 emissions from burning carbon laid down in the distant past increases (as it inevitably will) and the temperature sensitivity of the atmosphere to increased concentrations decreases (it's probably quite low now anyway), the biosphere will thrive while the human population stabilizes due to increased wealth and education.

The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line.The lectures follow a textbook, «Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast,» written for the course.

Although ice cores demonstrate that climate, in the distant past, sometimes changed very abruptly, future temperatures resulting from our current emissions course will likely exceed anything ever experienced by humans.

The history and geography of human genes, (Luigi Luca Cavalli - Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza) p. 229 suggests that only the Bering passage was ever employed by indigenous populations to transit the circle, casting extreme doubt on an Arctic as ice - free in the distant past as it now is.

Quirke: And I concede that we are pondering the distant future in this burning - the - earth's - carbon experiment, but as Roger Revelle said it best, «Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.»