Sentences with phrase «early human material»

Due to the close genetic ties between humans and chimpanzees, it is likely that naïve individuals also spontaneously invented some forms of early human material culture.

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Scarlett Johansson's casting as a Japanese human - cyborg in «Ghost in the Shell» caused an uproar earlier this year, as did Tilda Swinton's role as the Ancient One in «Doctor Strange» — a character depicted as an Asian male in the comic source material.

In the earliest material God was pictured in human form, and described as if he made personal appearances in the human scene from time to time.

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

Although even the iconoclasts of the early church had believed that divine power could operate for the good of human beings through some specially blessed material objects, the Reformers were reluctant to affirm that God's grace was mediated through the physical world.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

And recent finds in Africa have pushed back the start date for our species» long love affair with the material, hinting that modern human cognition may have developed much earlier than we thought.

But as archaeologists turn up evidence of functional uses for the material, they're realizing early humans» relationship with ochre is more complex.

The wedge is used for parting or separating materials, and its first use by early humans might have been in skinning animals — separating a hide from flesh.

This book follows the earlier, more technical Life in Amber (Review, 12 December, 1992) and describes the progress of the Poinars» passionate pursuit of the bugs and their host material, the amber that for thousands of years has proved a lasting and sometimes fatal attraction for humans.

The idea for this high - throughput, data - driven approach to materials discovery hit Ceder in the early 2000s, when he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and found himself inspired by the nearly completed Human Genome Project.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

ACT announced last November that they had cloned early - stage human embryos in a step toward therapeutic cloning (which seeks to treat diseases by using genetic material from a patient's own cells) but the company believes that reproductive cloning is too risky and unwarranted at this time.

The Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, which will be available online for free in early 2009, will map out which genes are active in which locations along the spine in mice, which share 90 percent of their genetic material with humans.

We identified a mosaic of features including facial, mandibular and dental morphology that aligns the Jebel Irhoud material with early or recent anatomically modern humans and more primitive neurocranial and endocranial morphology.

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour.

Here of some of the well - tested methods of dating used in the study of early humans: Potassium - argon dating, Argon - argon dating, Carbon - 14 (or Radiocarbon Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by

Director James Schamus approaches the material with a fealty that at least surpasses prior Roth adaptations including 2003's The Human Stain (featuring Anthony Hopkins as the book's white - passing African - American protagonist) as well as earlier, tastefully neutered attempts to reflect the highly sexualized language of Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus.

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.

For example, impactful Early Head Start and Head Start (EHS / HS) programs effectively provide family members with support, training, and materials to help them stimulate their children's cognitive development, handle discipline and health problems, and develop vocational and home management skills (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 2010).

This page from the Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, provides materials to learn how family engagement is defined and implemented across different fields of practice: early education, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, and behavioral.

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The craft of designing or creating textiles — materials composed of a web of natural or artificial fibers --- spans global cultures and represents one of the earliest human technologies.

An artist at the forefront of New British Sculpture, the wave of UK sculptors who emerged during the early 1980s, Richard Deacon is known for using materials from man - made sources to reflect his interest in aspects of the human figure.

Since the early 1990s Lappas has become recognizable with his monochromatic, figurative sculptures, in human scale, assembled with materials such as steel, aluminium, plastic, polyester, fabrics and neon.

While his early works in the 1970s were mostly created using recovered objects, in his later work Cragg has used more traditional materials, such as wood, bronze and marble, continually renewing his repertoire of forms, reaching towards an abstract appreciation of the human body.

Among Herring's early works were his woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing, and furniture.

His fascination with non-traditional materials and the human figure posited him early on as a maverick, a distinction accentuated by Marcia Tucker when she included him in the «Bad» Painting exhibition (1978) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Implementing Early Head Start - Home Visiting United States Department of Health and Human Services & Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (2011) Provides program implementation information for the Early Head Start - Home Visiting program, including a program model overview, prerequisites for implementation, training to support implementation, materials and forms to support implementation, estimated costs of implementation, program model contact information, and implementation experiences.

The Australian Human Rights Commission released a range of materials earlier this week to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities understand the importance of the Declaration and provide tools to implement the Declaration in practice.