Sentences with phrase «far earlier humans»

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And earlier this year, a study showed a neural link between generosity and happiness, further cementing humans as fundamentally social animals.

Earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk backed the company Neuralink with the intent of further developing brain - machine interfaces, a technology that would merge humans with computers and could, in theory, make knowledge downloadable.

If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call human did in fact embody this structure of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly high levels of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds of thousands of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence than does any now existing nonhuman member of the simian family.

However, attitudes about proper roles for men and women were further complicated for any theologian in the early years of Christianity by differences in Gentile and Jewish attitudes about the human body.

Human rights have recently been extended far beyond their earlier connotation as duties «owed» to individuals by a national government or, at least, by the community.

[The earlier passage is here inserted:] «The essential principle is this: That human psycho - physical activity must exceed a certain intensity for any waking consciousness at all to occur, and that during the waking state any particular specification of the said activity (whether spontaneous or due to stimulation), which is capable of occasioning a particular specification of consciousness, must exceed in its turn a certain further degree of intensity for the consciousness actually to arise...

Right... But then later, the «repopulated» humans killed the «repopulated» dinosaurs (without holding onto a single souvenir, a tooth, a claw, a nice triceratops rack mount...), but then these dinosaurs too somehow ended up fossilized far beneath the earlier humans who had already been drowned and buried in the flood.

I should, however, also remark that the more subtle developments of Whitehead's thought seem to have been the inspiration for one of the most thorough and impressive discussions of the evolution of human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised soon.

The human race is in the midst of a great transition involving such an enormity and rapidity of change as to constitute a transformation as far - reaching in its implications as that earlier great evolutionary leap when biological man became cultural man.

The United States is far from the goal established in 1990 by the Department of Health and Human Services that by 2000, 75 percent of mothers nurse their babies in early infancy and 50 percent until the babies are 5 or 6 months old.

While it is believed that these particular symbiotic strains have evolved over time as a way of kick - starting the digestive processes of very young humans, their discovery has prompted researchers to further investigate the possible benefits of other forms of probiotic bacteria during early childhood and adolescence.

Alleged human rights abuses and flawed elections prompted many Western countries to impose sanctions in the early 2000s that further hurt the economy, even with Chinese investment to soften the blow.

In one of the latest efforts, Nagler's team first confirmed that mice given antibiotics early in life were far more susceptible to peanut sensitization, a model of human peanut allergy.

Proponents now believe the finds suggest that the first human ancestors to leave Africa may have been far more anatomically primitive — and may have left far earlier — than previously thought.

Although the reason why these conditions would spur early technological developments will require further study, the researchers theorize that higher, more concentrated human populations are more likely to develop new ideas.

A panel, appointed by the Clinton administration in early 1994 to look into these matters, has so far documented 400 government - backed biomedical experiments involving human exposure to radiation conducted between 1944 and 1975.

If that's correct, the early Earth was riven by earthquakes far more violent than any in human history.

The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang.

Puebla Then in 2003, 40,000 - year - old human footprints found in volcanic ash near Puebla in Mexico suggested that the New World was colonised far earlier than anyone thought.

Now, scientists at Boston University's Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) have announced two major findings that further our understanding of this process: the ability to grow and purify the earliest lung progenitors that emerge from human stem cells, and the ability to differentiate these cells into tiny «bronchospheres» that model cystic fibrosis.

But they claim it is far more likely that early humans caught the lice from sleeping in abandoned gorilla nests than from having sex with gorillas.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

So far there have been no reports of Parkinson's disease in human survivors of the H5N1 flu, Smeyne says, but because only a few years have passed since the first cases were reported, it's too early to know whether those infected are at increased risk.

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~ 80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis.

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

And the statistical methods that Reich and his colleagues designed to probe the history of India proved crucial for his project deciphering the far earlier relationship of humans and Neanderthals.

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».

«The unfortunate news of the virus rebounding in this child further emphasizes the need to understand the early and refractory viral reservoir that is established very quickly following HIV infection in humans,» adds Barouch, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The researchers have so far found no remains of early humans, stone tools or other signs of occupation, but they think that Neanderthals made the structures, because no other hominins are known in western Europe at that time.

He has analyzed genetic relationships among diverse groups of people and finds that today's humans show evidence of interbreeding among Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and other early hominids over a wide span of time, from as far back as 1.5 million years ago until the last hypothesized global migration, around 80,000 years ago.

Paleontologist Fernando Ramirez Rozzi discovered something far more nefarious while comparing the jawbones of a Neanderthal child and an early modern human last year at the Institute of Human Paleontology in Phuman last year at the Institute of Human Paleontology in PHuman Paleontology in Paris.

More fossil and genetic data will help researchers further resolve the relationships between our early ancestors and how they shaped modern human evolution.

He notes that earlier published studies involving preclinical models suggest that may be the case but that further human studies are needed.

Rama was a serious contender for human ancestry for about 15 years, from the early 60's to the late 70's, before further finds showed it to be related to orang - utans.

Obama's policy is bad ethics because it creates further incentives for the destruction of human beings in their very earliest stage of life.

As far as human records go, the ancient Mayans of South America made some of the earliest mentions of hurricanes in their hieroglyphics.

But a new discovery puts humans on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, earlier than researchers previously thought — and the facts from these findings give further weight to the hypothesis that humans might not have arrived here on foot.

Across the Mediterranean Sea (upper left and center) is Europe; far below Egypt is East Africa and sites where remains of early ancestors of humans have been unearthed.

Dated to between 175,000 to 200,000 years old, the fossil is 50,000 years older than any other human fossil found in the region, suggesting humans left Africa far earlier than previously thought.

«It is legal to do this for research purposes on early human embryos in the UK with a licence from the HFEA, but the 14 day limit applies and it would be illegal to implant the embryos into a woman for further development.

«Further fieldwork in sediment layers dating 3.3 - 2.6 million years ago is needed to verify that this site in Kenya reflects the emergence of a new hominin (early proto - human) behavior and is not an isolated incidence,» Hovers said.

As he wrote in his published commentary, «While many have concentrated on East Africa as the key and perhaps sole region for the origins of the genus Homo, the continuing surprises emerging from further south remind us that Africa is a huge continent that even now is largely unexplored for its early human fossils.»

Three Emory scientists have signed a letter published last week in Nature and Science outlining proposed research on the H7N9 avian influenza virus. A strain of H7N9 transmitted from poultry to humans was responsible for 43 deaths in China earlier this year, but so far, evidence shows that the virus does not transmit easily from human to human.

Detection of early motor deficits, together with the genetic similarities to the human condition, would further support the use of heterozygous knock in mice as a tool for examining the early mechanisms of pathophysiology of HD and for screening potential treatments.

However, it's far too early to see the approach as a way to avoid the use of human embryos for research or potential treatments.

While it is believed that these particular symbiotic strains have evolved over time as a way of kick - starting the digestive processes of very young humans, their discovery has prompted researchers to further investigate the possible benefits of other forms of probiotic bacteria during early childhood and adolescence.

The Only Dating Guide You'll Ever Need The ancient city of Corinth showed signs of human habitation as far back as the Early Neolithic period.

The earliest traces of human life in the area now known as Argentina are dated from the Paleolithic period, with further traces in the Mesolithic and

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The earliest traces of human life in the area now known as Argentina are dated from the Paleolithic period, with further traces in the Mesolithic and Neolithic.