Sentences with phrase «for ancient animals»

But the amount of time it took for ancient animals to become buried in asphalt after enduring their gruesome deaths has remained a mystery.

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There's no ancient Hebrew word for «trichinosis», but someone noticed that people get sick more often from «unclean» animals.

For all of their idiosyncratic talk of plant and animal souls, the ancients at least would have recognized a twelve - week - old baby moving in his mother's womb as a person with a soul.

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

Although Whitehead's Category of the Ultimate is meant to lessen the distance, so to speak, between actual occasions and societies of actual occasions, the application of Whitehead's metaphysics to persons seems troublesome; the ancient metaphysical problem of appearance and reality seems to lurk in the background, for the philosopher who wishes to identify res vera in the system soon finds herself perplexed, asking if the subjects of experience are actual occasions, societies of occasions, or sentient beings, such as persons and animals.1

As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

ancients used animals for all kinds of stuff.

A demand for agriculture that practices the ancient and fair contract with domestic animals is not revolutionary but conservative.

Therefore, for the ancients, humans are (in their capacities, even if not always in their actual practice) social animals.

Many basilosaurids were probably active hunters, similar to modern orcas, with mouths that were suited for biting and attacking, but Mystacodon has a mouth more suited for sucking in smaller animals, leading the researchers to conclude that Mystacodon most likely represents an intermediate step between raptorial and filter feeding and between the ancient basilosaurids and modern mysticetes.

In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

Because skates are an evolutionarily ancient animal, that means the neurons essential for walking originated in species that separated from other four - legged vertebrates, or tetrapods, about 420 million years ago.

14 Cities have long been gold mines for recyclers: Beginning in ancient times, tanners collected human urine to use in turning animal skins into leather.

Ancient baleen whales found in the same area «would have been perfect prey for such an animal,» says Lambert, who has returned to Peru in search of the rest of Livyatan's skeleton.

So what were ancient people looking for when striking up friendships with the feathered animals — or any other creatures?

Although the era Secord and his colleagues studied experienced a similar increase in temperatures (five degrees Celsius or more) as is predicted for us for the near future (four degrees C), he points out the ancient animals had tens of thousands of years to adapt to changing temperatures — rather than just centuries.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Ancient cave bears, which roamed from the United Kingdom to Russia for hundreds of thousands of years, made a strong impression on Stone Age artists, who included them in a 30,000 - year - old gallery of animals lining the walls of Chauvet cave in modern France.

In order to determine what the root of their family tree looked like, biologists need reliable dating information for the most ancient animal subgroups — the sponges, cnidarians, comb jellies and placozoans.

The results promise new hope for research on both ancient humans and extinct animals.

Belyaev's idea was that ancient humans picked wolves and other animals for docility and that this artificial selection jump - started an evolutionary path toward domestication.

The new views of the prehistoric world hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Studying animals that show similar hemispheric biases for their own vocalization — like primates, sea lions and horses — could reveal important clues about how ancient language - processing mechanisms are, she adds: «Evolutionarily, this could go far beyond primates to a common ancestor for all mammals.

Plato and other ancient writers linked Mount Lykaion specifically to human sacrifices to Zeus — the legends say a sacrificed boy would be cooked with sacrificed animal meat and those who consumed it would become a wolf for 9 years.

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For Lucy and her ancient hominid comrades, raw meat sliced off animal carcasses was what's for dinnFor Lucy and her ancient hominid comrades, raw meat sliced off animal carcasses was what's for dinnfor dinner.

But most ancient skeletons are highly fragmented, so it's difficult to figure out what kind of animal they were from, and what they were used for.

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For each specimen, they sequenced 685 bases from the fastest - mutating part of the animal's mitochondrial genome and then assessed the genetic diversity of ancient herds.

A team of researchers has validated data and found a new model for paleontologists to use to track the diet of our ancient ancestors and animals by analyzing the wear on their teeth.

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

Known as the Razanandrongobe sakalavae, or «Razana» for short, the animal is believed to be an ancient ancestor of crocodiles.

Viruses that store their information in RNA - genetic material that is the middle - man between our genes and the proteins they code for - evolved alongside the backboned - animals the viruses infect, according to internationals scientists, including Read more about Ancient origins of viruses discovered - Scimex

January 7, 2016 Scientists find ancient mutation that contributed to the evolution of multicellular animals A single chance mutation about a billion years ago caused an ancient protein to evolve a new function essential for multicellularity in animals, according to new research co-led by a University of Chicago scientist.

For starters, bacteria fed our ancient ancestors, and this likely required those proto - animals to develop systems to recognize the best bacterial prey, and to capture and engulf them.

This provides a novel approach for revealing the diet, and thereby also the lifestyle, of ancient animals such as dinosaurs.

Likewise all animals share specific antiviral defence factors such as MDA5 - like RNA helicases, and interferon regulatory factor - like proteins, although other systems (for example, RNAi) have more ancient origins39.

However, the identification of conserved male or female - specific gametogenic proteins across large evolutionary distances could uncover molecular traces of any ancient gametogenic machinery, providing evidence for a common origin of sexually dimorphic traits among animals.

For example, the insulin receptor substrate and phosphotyrosine binding proteins GAB1 / GAB2 emerged on the metazoan stem after the divergence of choanoflagellates, indicating that an insulin - signalling - like pathway may have been a key regulator of growth in early animals by tying into the ancient PDK1 and Akt kinases (Fig. 2b).

For example, an ancient fish with proto - wrists, elbows, and shoulders might be called a missing link between sea creatures and land animals.

December 8, 2011 Tiktaalik discovery among National Geographic's top grants Neil Shubin's 2004 discovery of the pivotal fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a transitional species between ancient fish and the first limbed animals, is among 10 projects selected for their historical significance as part of the National Geographic celebration of the magazine's first 10,000 grants.

The age of the surrounding rock is what indicates just how ancient these animals were, but while the team is quick to call their find the «oldest mammals related to mankind,» the title is up for contention.

In support of this concept, we have shown that mtDNA mutations accumulate in proportion to life span in several animals, that increasing mitochondrial anti-oxidant defense systems extends lifespan, that ancient human mtDNA variants that modify energy production and oxygen radical production can modulate longevity and risk for neurodegenerative diseases, and that patients with the neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer Disease, have increased mtDNA mutations.

As John Durant, a founder of Paleo NYC and Barefoot Runners NYC, put it in his 2013 book, «The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health,» «other animals don't «exercise» so much as they either play or just do what is required to survive.

I don't idealize the ancient diet, because we can't really fully know it, but realistically I'd have to guess that besides plants (and bugs), like someone else mentioned, it probably included whatever else was easy to procure, (considering it wouldn't make sense to expend more calories hunting down food than you would receive from consuming it) like mussels, clams, crabs, snails, some fish, maybe small animals, but I bet the taste for meat came from observing REAL carnivores consuming flesh, and maybe leaving carcasses behind.

Ancient Greek and Roman herbalists, such as Dioscorides and Pliny, first documented gentian as a treatment for animal bites, digestive issues, and fever.

Barley was used by ancient civilizations as a food for humans and animals, as well as to make alcoholic beverages; the first known recipe for barley wine dates back to 2800 BC in Babylonia.