Sentences with phrase «evolved as a species»

If we are to evolve as a species, myths must be abandoned, even the cotton candy coated myths that emanate from the mouth of the smiling preacher.
So, the most recent thousands of years represents 0.01 % of the time it would take to evolve as a species.
Wow, we've really evolved as a species, haven't we?
Your newborn baby's smell is one of the many ways where we have evolved as a species to love and nurture our little ones.
If we had evolved as a species with different mating and child - rearing habits — abandoning our children at birth and moving indiscriminately from partner to partner, like most reptiles — it's likely our brains would be incapable of feeling love.
Are we going to evolve as a species and actually combat this issue?

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That suggestion contradicts the prevailing anthropological logic that our species evolved somewhere deep in sub-Saharan Africa, in what some researchers have referred to as a «Garden of Eden,» then gradually moved out to other parts of the world.
You say the Bible is full of fairy tales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.
Obviously, the human species is not evolving as we still have «cave man» reactions.
It is not «wickedness» or «sin»... it is nature, and our evolved social skills, and need for social interaction as a species, while it has a side that is normally kept in reserve, is necessary for any species to survive.
Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...
everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine
You say the Bible is full of fairytales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.
Maff, most likely we «follow the rules» because we've evolved from species who have, due to their unique physicality as compared to their environment, found that living in groups was more «advantagoeus» than living alone.
Certainly, such as species evolving to adapt to their environments.
The primordial life had the potentiality of evolving mankind, as well as every one of the several million existing and extinct species.
1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymorAs a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymoras a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.
In the case of the human species, we have evolved not only in a symbiotic relationship with the physical environment of the earth but with another kind of environment, known as human culture.
From the time the species Homo sapiens consolidated itself to become the only survivor of the various hominoid species that had evolved as a result of divergence, humankind slowly spread over the earth, moving into previously uninhabited areas.
If we start with consciousness as a blank slate that then evolves (whether as an individual or as a species) to adapt to the necessities of its self - preservation (as an individual or as a species), we will never get to an argument for the goodness of fidelity, fecundity, etc..
The same finches that Darwin used as part of his explanation for evolution still exist today, they did not evolve to a new species, so exactly what is your belief based on.
It would make far more sense to put two and two together and understand that evolving an early starting age for procreating would help continue our species, esspecially when facing lifespans as short at 30 years.
As to evolution none of us i.e. humans evolved from any other currently existing species.
If we define evolution as simply a change in species over time, any student of biology must agree that species do in fact evolve.
We will continue to evolve to fit new environs, new challenges to our existence as a species or we will go extinct.
All cultures evolved with it, but that doesn't make it beneficial to our survival as a species, au contraire, it might be our undoing.
It adapts, and I do believe Christians can see and believe in adaptation as it occurs every day, but is entirely different from billions or millions of years of one species evolving into another, with a supposed start of a non-living or non-traceable thing.
If any species evolved the ability to speak as we do, things would definitely, be extremely different, by the way it is proven that most species «CAN» communicate to each other among their own species, Whales, porpoises, dogs, birds, etc.etc.etc, and many can tell what the voice and actions of another species mean.
Humans, as a species, continue to evolve.
I think that morals have evolved along with society - they are pretty much ingrained into us as a species.
You can do so much better than to resort to such stock canards as «If humans evolved from monkeys when you know full well what the theory of evolution says regarding the multiple species of primates.
We're evolving in so many ways, as a species, and we're evolving with cheese making, which is something that's gone on for a long time.
People (as in, the actual species of homo sapiens) evolved in a way that make their circle of caring very small - we mostly care about well - being of our own...
Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.
This showed that horns were most likely in conspicuous species — those living in open habitats and large enough to be clearly visible to predators — suggesting that they evolved as defensive weapons (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1256).
About 150 species live in the treetops of Central and South American rain forests, where transparency most likely evolved as a form of camouflage.
In fact, Mayr calculated that even though there have evolved perhaps as many as 50 billion species on Earth, «only one of these achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization.»
If so, that DNA would serve as a biological time machine that effectively allows scientists to revisit Earth's past and watch as proteins and species evolve.
As the male plumage and displays and songs diversify, the mating preferences of the females are also evolving and diversifying among species.
«Even so, it took almost two million years before the deep sea food supply was fully restored as new species evolved to occupy ecological niches vacated by extinct forms.»
«As a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theorAs a species we evolved the way we did as a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theoras a result of living in very dynamic landscapes that selected for adaptability,» says archaeologist Geoff Bailey of the University of York in the UK, who along with Geoffrey King of the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France has spent over 20 years amassing evidence for the theory.
Yet the fossil record contains no evidence that unique species evolved on the subcontinent during this time, so India may not have been as isolated as it seemed to be.
As an academic evolutionist, I knew that prosociality can evolve in any species when highly prosocial individuals are able to interact with each other and avoid interacting with selfish individuals — in other words, when those who give also receive.
Social monogamy evolved many times across mammals as a male mating strategy in species where females are widely spaced for ecological reasons.
Some fish species still have a set of vestigial teeth in their throat, but pharyngeal teeth for the most part are believed to have migrated forward into the mouth, perhaps as the jaw was evolving.
«The bottom line is that we should expect to see changes in the impacts of invasive species as invaders and native species evolve over time,» Morin said.
Although tempting to conclude that human activities thus benefit as well as deplete global biodiversity, the authors stress that extinct wild species can not simply be replaced with newly evolved ones, and that nature conservation remains just as urgent.
Scientists have hypothesized that viruses usually co-diverge with their hosts, forming new viral species as their hosts evolve into new species.
Given the right conditions, such as isolation from the original population and an accumulation of genetic differences, these lineages can eventually evolve into entirely new species.
Though we often think of mammals in the order Carnivora as predators, many of these species are themselves subject to high rates of predation and, as such, have evolved a suite of antipredator defenses that tend to sort them into two quite different categories.
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