Sentences with phrase «history as a species»

Our history as a species also has left genetic signals in regional populations.

In Kate's discussion about Neandertals and our own history as a species on the planet, reminds me of the origin of the celiac disease issue which is, you know, very deeply tied with our human history.

Bullsh*t, if only because the human species has consumed a low - carb, high - fat diet for 100,000 years; yet the greatest change to our diet in our history as a species has been the introduction of a carbohydrate orgy in the last 100 years!

I encourage you to slow down, too, and to celebrate this remarkable moment in our history as a species, as we slowly come to grips with the predicament of trying to mesh infinite aspirations with life on a finite planet.

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As per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through historAs per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through historas a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through history.

Based upon you description of humanity, we should cease to exist as a species as I doubt the history is clean of any abhorrent act in any surviving family.

We treat racism as though it is the contained characteristic of a specific species of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.

We can see by looking at other primates and studying their genetics and history, as well as those of previous species of hominids, that we have common traits.

Further, the Marxist understanding of human nature views social history as the process of the human species» selfcreation.

Yet even without recourse to religion, it treats biological history — thereby remaining solely within nature — as a miracle that leads inexorably to the human species.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

One would think humans would have moved forward by now but instead we as a species behave in the same self - destructive manner now as we did thousands of years ago with more at stake then at any other time in history.

As he observed: «We now stand at a turning - point in the history of the biosphere and in the shorter history of one of its products, mankind... Man is the first species of living being in our biosphere that has acquired the power to wreck the biosphere and, in wrecking it, to liquidate himself.»

As history has shown, the slightest imbalance in our pencil - thin gold - fish bowl can do in 99 % of the planet's species at the blink of a geological eye.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

We now for the first time in our species» history have a story that can serve as the basis for intercultural and inter-religious encounter.

As species, man produces the configurations of history, culture, society, technology, politics, economics, the arts and religion which serve as his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.&raquAs species, man produces the configurations of history, culture, society, technology, politics, economics, the arts and religion which serve as his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.&raquas his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.»

We, as a species... we humanity learned most of what we learned throughout human history only AFTER refusing to accept the old - time explanation «because [insert name of local deity or other spirit, etc.] decreed it should be so.»

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

And oral history tradition credits McMahon with a central role in popularizing the species throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, where the potted pepper plants serves as a winter table ornament or as windowsill plants.

Mother Nature, also by an anthropologist, shares experiences of motherhood as witnessed across the world and various cultures, across history and a variety of time periods, and even across species.

The two share a common history as Republicans on the Syracuse Common Council - a species that is now extinct.

This panel will discuss the intersection in which natural history museums and science centers are arenas for shaping and guiding science diplomacy as it pertains to working with nations of conflict, tackling STEM education, and conserving endangered species.

Additionally, evidence that modern humans interbred with other hominins already present in Asia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, complicates the evolutionary history of our species.

Hunt and his colleagues drew on large collections of ostracod fossils from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Louisiana State University, as well as additional fossils they collected themselves, to investigate whether species in which this male / female distinction was most prominent had been more vulnerable than others to changes in their environments.

To gain more insights into the impact of this favoritism on a large scale, Naudts and colleagues reconstructed 250 years of European forest history using modelling that included forest management factors, such as changes in tree species.

For three of the species, «we immediately identified them as new species,» said Glaw, a veteran herpetologist and curator at the Museum of Natural History in Munich.

In 1945, while working at what is now the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Nabokov proposed a radical overhaul of the taxonomy of a butterfly family which includes species known commonly as the «blues».

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, scientists use this common species as a marine version of a lab rat to research hormones, blood and organs.

The latest species of extinct hominin to be discovered that promised to rewrite our history may have died out as modern humans came about

The preamble read as follows: «This symposium demonstrates that many avian species, despite brain architectures that lack much cortical structure and evolutionary histories and that differ so greatly from those of humans, equal and sometimes surpass humans with respect to various cognitive tasks.»

As methods for studying and comparing genetic data improve, scientists are beginning to decode these marks to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species, as well as how variants of genes give rise to unique traitAs methods for studying and comparing genetic data improve, scientists are beginning to decode these marks to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species, as well as how variants of genes give rise to unique traitas well as how variants of genes give rise to unique traitas how variants of genes give rise to unique traits.

James Mead, a vertebrate paleontologist with East Tennessee State University, said more research into the evolutionary history of native plants and animals on Abaco is needed as well as conservation programs based on paleontological research that aims to restore these species.

Crawford and his team mapped out the history and relationships — such as their common ancestors and when they split from other species — of all the species they found in the area.

«We expected to find similar trends across all primate radiations — that is, that the faces of highly social species would have more complex patterning,» said Santana, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral fellow with the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics and who is now an assistant professor at the University of Washington and curator of mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

As a systematic biologist, he studies the evolutionary histories of reptiles, and designates species, which explains a door we passed marked «Alcohol Room.»

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.

FOSSILS found in Morocco suggest our species began to appear as early as 350,000 years ago — adding as much as 150,000 years to Homo sapiens history.

Fossils found in Morocco suggest the Homo sapiens lineage became distinct as early as 350,000 years ago — adding as much as 150,000 years to our species» history.

This idea helps explain how we started out as a small, apelike, herbivorous species 6 million years ago in tropical Africa, and after a history of origin and extinction of species, what's left today is us: a single species all over the planet with an astonishing array of abilities to adjust.

But as he traveled through the world's great natural history museums trying to assemble the basic data about Madagascar species, Fisher found that past collectors often failed to label specimens as «types.»

As he explains it, an exceptional period in the history of our species occurred about 50,000 years ago.

Usually, extinction events can be seen in a species» genetic history; as the animals» numbers dwindle, they lose their genetic diversity.

We are living in an era with one of the greatest extinction rates in recorded history, which began with wholesale slaughter of entire species for food and has progressed as we have dismembered a large part of what was the dominant incubator of life on earth, the rain forests.

Further genome doubling is common in the later history of plants as a way that new species form, adds Pamela Soltis, another leader of the nuclear genome work.

A new study by Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals» physical features — also known as morphology — to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different.

The formal description was then prepared for publication and specimens were deposited in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, as required by scientific rules when naming new species.

As well as challenging the classic method of defining a species, the authors believe the findings of this study are just the start of understanding mammoth evolutionary historAs well as challenging the classic method of defining a species, the authors believe the findings of this study are just the start of understanding mammoth evolutionary historas challenging the classic method of defining a species, the authors believe the findings of this study are just the start of understanding mammoth evolutionary history.

As part of the conference, Matt Schlesinger covers the natural history and ecological diversity of Plum Island and the importance of the island for rare species as the federal government decides on the sale of the islanAs part of the conference, Matt Schlesinger covers the natural history and ecological diversity of Plum Island and the importance of the island for rare species as the federal government decides on the sale of the islanas the federal government decides on the sale of the island.