Sentences with phrase «early humans was»

One thing that didn't make sense for early humans was staying up late.
Many anthropologists have assumed, based on observations of sometimes polygamous modern - day hunter - gatherers, that the basic social unit of early humans was the band or tribe rather than the family.
Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change.
Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.
The archaeological evidence suggests these early humans were developing significant new behaviours.
Bones from two animals dating to nearly 3.4 million years ago suggest that early humans were butchering meat nearly one million years earlier than previous evidence suggested — and they weren't even in our genus
Being able to make such precise tools indicates that these early humans were almost certainly using their hands for many other complex tasks as well, Ward said.
It does not follow that we need to imagine that morality took its start from a desperate attempt to form a social union from selfish individualists: «far from being originally solitary, the earliest human beings were heirs to a long, complex tradition of group life».
Many early humans were highly inbred, according to a new genetic analysis.
Ramirez Rozzi classifies Neanderthals as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis, and therefore suspects that close relationships with early humans were rare.
«It is clear that early humans were eating Neanderthals,» Ramirez Rozzi says.
A study in the journal Science suggests that early humans were fire - treating stone more than 70,000 years ago to make better stone tools.
Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.
(10) Since early humans are thought to have eaten a more diverse diet than Neanderthals, it is safe to assume that our human ancestors also ate legumes.
Collishaw has created a zoetrope sculpture of fluttering hummingbirds to illustrate the theory that early human beings evolved art for the same reason hummingbirds evolved gorgeous feathers and elaborate dances: to seduce the opposite sex.
Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery.

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If you count early cave paintings as infographics, then humans have been making and consuming this type of content for the past 32,000 years.
Venter, who is one of the first people to sequence the human genome, co-founded the company in effort to discover early genetic markers for a variety of disorders.
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.
That, he said Tuesday, is much of the reason he founded SpaceX: After humans successfully landed on the moon in the late 60s and early 70s, progress stalled out.
«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.
Early childhood interventions and education develop human capital, yet there are distressing and glaring disparities in access.
Here's how early humans spread from East Africa all around the world.
Paleoanthropologists have disproven the basic premise that the modern human digestive system is the same as that of early humans, but research also suggests that a diet of unprocessed, hormone - free meat sources coupled with fresh fruits and vegetables has clear benefits.
At a demonstration staged at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, for example, a robotic arm was given human - like reflexes through the deployment of 5G technology.
Dennis Mortensen, the CEO of the company that created Amy Ingram, x.ai, told me earlier this month that some people have been so convinced she is human, they've even sent her flowers, whiskey, and chocolates.
The results are still early, however, and it remains to be seen how the treatment works in humans.
Among the earliest and most crucial hires I make at any organization are in human - capital management and business - development functions.
Earlier this year, the company suspended a top executive after news broke that the company was involved in tests of the effects of diesel fumes on humans and monkeys.
Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.
Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.
Those early days after my loss are a complete blur, but I think my sister contacted my human resources office to inform them I wouldn't be back in the office for a while.
In an earlier computing era — not really so long ago — a beautiful hardware device with smartly tailored software to run it was a market - shaking innovation, and no one did that better than Apple: Its combined expertise in hardware design and human interface design were unmatched.
If you weren't an early adopter of Twitter, or don't spend a ton of time checking your timeline (or if you're just a normal human being with better things to do) you can get a little behind in Twitter abbreviations and acronyms.
While the company has gained attention as an early adopter of implanted microchips in humans, it will be interesting to watch how it plays out and helps shape the practice for other companies going forward.
NASA themselves wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s; for Musk to outdo them with an earlier mission (a date of 2025 was touted) would be a significant coup for the decade - old company.
As I mentioned earlier, trolls may have «Dark Tetard» personality traits, but you have to remember that they're still human.
Rep. Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon and Georgia Republican who became an early supporter of President - elect Donald Trump, is among the top prospects being considered to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the new administration, according to Politico.
Once the final results of those studies are analyzed this spring — and the early evidence has been encouraging — the challenge will be to get FDA approval for human trials and then bring the treatment to market.
Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.
The mindset of today's 20 and early 30 - somethings have given rise to human - centered technologies that are transforming the way we live and work.
With the recent discovery of anatomically modern humans evolving 100,000 years earlier than previously estimated, it's not out of the question that our ancestors did a lot of moving about.
The company had hoped to begin human trials in early 2010, but they will now be delayed at least until the third quarter.
After all, back at early Apple, things only worked because we were human beings: problem solvers, collaborators, challengers, pick - yourself - up - and - try - again - ers.
The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.
Evidently, then, something else was needed to push early humans from a lateral preference in general to the extremely high levels of right - handedness we see today.
The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.
To ignore this advice and plunk ourselves down longer and more often than the human body was designed for is to tempt both a host of unpleasant health effects and early death.
While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.
So while it might be too early to predict the end of human stock - pickers, robots may quite literally give them a run for their money.
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