Sentences with phrase «early human environment»

In the early human environment, a child would never have slept more than arm's reach from his parents or other caregivers.

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Kelly possesses 20 years of Human Resources experience, developing and implementing people practices that drive business outcomes in both early growth - stage and global environments.
We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.
These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.
I believe many Dads, partners, and family members have perhaps used their own style of the 5 S's, but, alas, we weren't the ones to write the book.The basic premise of «Happiest Baby on the Block» is that human babies are born too early and so in the «forth trimester» (the first three months of a newborn's life) we need to recreate a womb - like environment for the baby.
«Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline: Evidence of innovation dates to a period when humans faced an unpredictable and uncertain environment, according to three new studies.»
And it will reflect human uniqueness in the sense I described earlier: our evolutionary success may compete with that of microbes in our impact on the earth's environment.
Some time between 700 and 600 million years ago, early multicellular animals appear to have burrowed and grazed the mats to destruction — showing that humans are by no means the first to overexploit their environment.
Versatile, easy - to - replace «microliths» found in south Asia could have helped early humans better tame their environments
If this is the case, the sites may have provided «nodal points» or base camps along nutrient - rich route - ways through the Palaeolithic landscape, allowing early humans to explore northwards to more challenging environments
These predictions, he says, are essential to manufacturing in global chemical, cosmetic and personal care industries impacted by REACH, a European regulatory guideline that aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances.
«They sleep on the ground, and have no synthetic lighting or controlled climate — traits that characterized the ancestral sleeping environment for early humans,» Crittenden said.
He also leads excavations in the East African Rift Valley and codirects projects in China that compare early human behavior and environments in eastern Africa with those in eastern Asia.
Dr Wenban - Smith explains the Ebbsfleet area would have been very different from today: «Rich fossilised remains surrounding the elephant skeleton, including pollen, snails and a wide variety of vertebrates, provide a remarkable record of the climate and environment the early humans inhabited.
Early humans made advanced stone tools, used colorful pigments, and formed long - distance networks as environment changed
The early human techno - tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66,000 to 59,000 years ago indicates that during this period of pronounced aridification they developed cultural innovations that allowed them to significantly enlarge the range of environments they occupied.
Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.
In the early 1970s, the tragic health impacts of diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen - based drug that was thought to prevent miscarriage, introduced the possibility of hormone disruption as a threat to human health and development that sparked intensive study of estrogens in the environment.
Food sources of the early hunter - gatherer humans of the Paleolithic Age included both animals and plants that were part of the natural environment in which these humans lived, often animal organ meats, including the liver, kidneys, and brains.
In a recent training with renowned neuroscientist Rick Hanson, he explained that our inherited negativity bias is an outdated tendency that kept early humans and human ancestors alerted to potential threats in the environment.
We believe in viewing nutrition through an ancestral perspective, learning from our early Palaeolithic ancestors and all throughout human evolution to help us understand how to thrive in today's modern environment.
Our metabolisms evolved at a point in time when early humans (or our mammalian predecessors) were eating entirely foraged foods and wild meat from their local environment.
As I have discussed earlier, research indicates that the changes induced in the gut bacteria in humans when they are exposed to artificial sweeteners creates a much more inflammatory environment.
Some production notes found in an earlier DVD release stated that «the appearance of the third monolith, Kubrick has explained, sends space voyager Bowman «on a journey through inner and outer space and finally... to where he's placed in a human zoo approximating a hospitable terrestrial environment drawn out of his own dreams and imagination.
At around 500,000 years old the later handaxe shows how early humans made versatile tools from the materials available in their environment and leads into a study of the lives of early people in Britain.
Sanderson Hale Doughty Human Development and Psychology Current City: Portland, Oregon Current Job: Teacher, the Portland School of Experiential Education Career highlight: Dedicating my life to early childhood education and pushing the envelope with that is possible in educating and caring for very young children in a progressive learning environment.
The premature removal of young animals from their natural family group, the lack of human socialisation at this early age and the confusion and fear induced by their transit to new and alien environments contributes towards behavioural issues they should not normally suffer from.
We believe that the early childhood environment has a huge impact on humans, and the same concept applies to dogs.
She wants you to see that the dogs are not confined to a sterile kennel environment and that they have many opportunities for human interaction from an early age.
* Dr. R.K.Anderson, «Puppy Vaccination and Early Socialization Should Go Together», Director, Center to Study Human / Animal Relationships and Environments, The University of Minnesota, 2004.
If you are taking an older puppy, make sure it has had the necessary early socialization with humans and exposure to environments other than the kennel.
In a departure from Doom's colorful environments, all Quake levels are dominated by earth colors.The enemies conform to the mishmash of designs: there are human opponents armed with shotguns and energy weapons in the early levels, while the later levels include medieval knights, ghosts, zombies, ogres (armed with grenade launchers and chainsaws) and some more unearthly beasts.
With Bricks, conceived at the early period of the Uruguayan dictatorship, the piece obscures any cues for cardinal directions, human scale, and the relationship of the body within its environment, imposing boundaries on the viewers» experience.
This new body of work bears a strong conceptual affinity to Klein's earliest paintings — human - made vessels that imitate the natural world; vitrines, terrariums, aquariums and swimming pools — all of which represent artificially contained environments.
The show draws on works from as early as 1917 to show recurring ways that artists use the built environment to interpret the human form, and how the body in turn becomes a lens for architecture.
If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?
-- a paper valuably demonstrating that the modern concept of the Anthropocene, focused on disrupted Earth systems, is very different from earlier conceptions, some dating to the 1800s, of a human - shaped environment.
I'll end with a look back at an earlier phase of this journey toward a better human relationship with the environment — the first Earth Day:
A panel of experts had reported a year earlier that the regulatory process — the safeguards that protect human health, the environment and even the electrical grid itself — were causing the delays to wind and solar development across the province.
Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)
There are other issues that are important to a lot of people and their numbers are increasing as they learn about the other issues: health for humans and animals, job creation, protection of the environment, balance of trade deficit due to imports of oil, preservation of natural resources that have better uses than just being burned, energy independence, global warming, the prestige that early adopters enjoy and the good feeling some people get from knowing that they have made a decision that is good in some way.
Hominids in arid environments, see Kaye E. Reed, «Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio - Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 32:289 - 322 (1997).
«I think what it's telling us is that humans had an impact on the Arctic much earlier than had been thought,» said John Fyfe, a senior scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Victoria, British Columbia and one of the authors of the study, which appeared today in Geophysical Research Letters.
At the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative» spublic launch earlier this month, many questions were raised around climate geoengineering's safety not just for humans and the environment, but also from nefarious individuals or governments.
A forceful criticism of this shift in priorities was articulated by Dr. Patrick Moore, an early member of Greenpeace who said on BBC Radio 4: «The «green» [in Greenpeace] is the environment and that's good as well, but they lost the concern for humans», before going on to add, «they have turned in, basically, to an evil organization».
Thanks for all you are doing to protect biodiversity from massive extirpation, the environment from irreversible degradation, the Earth from wanton dissipation of its resources and the family of humanity from reckless endangerment by the unbridled overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species in these early years of Century XXI.
In Australia there are robust administrative data linkage methodologies, some longstanding and well established, that are currently being assessed for their potential to use AEDI data to prospectively estimate the human development benefits of early childhood opportunities, environments and services on later life course outcomes.
We provide evidence for a causal link between the early caregiving environment and stress response system reactivity in humans with effects that differ markedly from those observed in rodent models.
Although research in rodents supports this hypothesis, human research has been hampered by inconsistency in the types of adverse early environments studied and an inability to identify causal effects.
Both animal (11) and human studies (12) clearly indicate that the early environment affects biological functioning and health outcomes, not only in early life but throughout adulthood into old age, controlling for other risk factors.
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