Sentences with phrase «early humans a survival»

In tough times, Kuhn argues, this diversified diet gave early humans a survival edge.

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In building ProAmerica, Contreras - Sweet said that it was critical to the bank's survival that she build a strong human and physical infrastructure early on.

In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

Seems to indicate a pretty chaotic early solar system AND they are floating all over the place and are an extreme threat to human survival.

Early religious inklings of «another dimension» were felt especially in those aspects of nature considered important for human subsistence and survival.

Earlier this decade, Andrew Schmookler pointed out that «for thousands of years, human communities have seen the greatest threat to their survival as coming from outside enemies.

Throughout early history, sweet taste was paramount to survival, helping humans distinguish edible, nutritious and caloric foods from poisonous, inedible or low - caloric ones.

But humans may have gained a survival advantage from weaning earlier.

If you follow the evolution of human society per the theory of the early philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau; it is posited that when humans decided to move from a state of survival of the fittest in which they roamed in the bush mainly in small family groups and decided to settle in larger societal groups, they needed rules and regulations to order society.

«At the same time, as the human ZNF217 is associated with poor survival in a variety of cancers, understanding how this protein operates in physiological conditions may help to predict cancer risk, achieve earlier diagnosis and provide novel therapeutic approaches.»

From poisoning and injuring marine life to the ubiquitous presence of plastics in our food to disrupting human hormones and causing major life - threatening diseases and early puberty, the exponential growth of plastics is threatening our planet's survival.

Early humans hunted with throwing spears in sub-Saharan Africa for more than 500,000 years — leading their increasingly watchful prey to develop better flight or fight survival strategies, Coss said.

When his team looked at gene expression changes in the mice, then applied them to humans with early stage cancer, the results revealed a breakdown of which patients have a high or low chance of survival.

Now, a study of more than 100 dog burials in prehistoric Japan claims to provide the strongest evidence yet that early dogs did indeed help people hunt — and may have been critical to human survival in some parts of the world.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

Wessel thinks this is a basic survival mechanism, rooted in the earliest humans.

Furthermore, since malignant cells exploit early developmental programmes for their survival and growth, a deeper understanding of human development will have impact in cancer research.

Long before mechanical biofeedback techniques emerged, natural biofeedback mechanisms were built into our nervous systems — a key feature in our development with early humans using it instinctively for survival.

But I think judging, in Humans early existence, was a survival strategy, to decide what was safe and not safe.

In the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankind.

This philosophy is changing, mostly due to the results of some studies in humans that show an improvement in survival rates and recovery times among patients who are fed early in the recovery from pancreatitis.

Early detection is the key to survival for pets as with humans when fighting most cancers.

Firstly, early in the domestication process, DDS may have provided dogs with a reliable cue that indicates safe social partners at a time when joining human groups may have been dangerous, and identifying those who would not be hostile would have been important for a dog's survival.

It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism on the earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all life on the planet and has been working for aeons of time, right back to the earliest life here... the planet was made more hospitable to life by life itself, geo - engineering on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the planet...

Attachment theory developed by (BowlbyI980a) explained early childhood development and lays tremendous importance that a human infant has a biological need for protective attachment figure for survival and absence of such a figure can cause psychological difficulties in the child's emotional growth.