Sentences with phrase «human arrivals in»
In the review, the scientists report analyses of the most comprehensive radiocarbon data set of Caribbean mammals and human arrivals in the Caribbean, representing 57 extinction and extirpation (when a population vanishes from an island) events for native species.
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Immigration advocates are accusing the San Diego - area Border Patrol of politicizing two human - smuggling arrests by publicizing the suspects» participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — even though one of the arrestees was not actively enrolled in DACA.
Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.
Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.
It suggested a certain open - endedness that seemed to undergird human freedom of response to the divine initiative by pushing the fullness of God's being ahead to our ultimate future, in the definitive arrival of the eschatological basileia tou theou.
By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science, yet such corruption of human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.
The three characteristics which make the human individual a truly unique object in the eyes of Science, once we have made up our minds to regard Man not merely as a chance arrival but as an integral element of the physical world, are as follows:
As i wait for the arrival of a baby conceived after the death of my first baby when he was a month old, i worry about being able to offer him / her a life not completely shadowed by sadness and grief... I hold on to the hope that the love i already feel for this tiny human growing in me will allow me to give him the full life he / she deserves.
Even Tory backbenchers, the nearest human approximation to cats in a bag, have a new discipline following Lynton Crosby's arrival.
I think of the Jesuit priest in Colombia challenging human rights abuses, travelling to remote places with bodyguard in tow, and the Muslim man and Jewish woman, both once refugees in the US, working together to welcome Syrian arrivals.
«The primary purpose of my visit is that we will be launching, along with President Nana Akufo - Addo, a very important initiative this afternoon, and this initiative will be across the continent, because we are going to start again to build the human capital, the youth of the continent, and empower them with the skills and opportunities that this continent needs,» she told the media shortly after her arrival in Ghana.
If these new estimates hold up, the Spanish finds become the world's oldest known examples of cave art, preceding evidence of humans» arrival in Europe by at least 20,000 years (SN Online: 11/2/11).
These extinctions, in fact, were timed with human arrival, thereby supporting the more widely accepted overhunting hypothesis.
«Neanderthals, for example, had lived in Europe and Western Asia for around 200,000 years before the arrival of modern humans.
In December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the AmericaIn December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the Americain the Americas.
The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.
And Hublin notes that soon after their arrival in Europe, «modern humans replaced [Neandertals], and there are reasons.»
«There was anecdotal evidence too: both thylacines and devils lasted for over 40,000 years following the arrival of humans in Australia; their mainland extinction about 3000 years ago was just after dingoes were introduced to Australia; and the fact that thylacines and devils persisted on Tasmania, which was never colonised by dingoes.
This supports the theory first advanced several years ago that the arrival of early modern humans in Europe may have stimulated the Neanderthals into copying aspects of their symbolic behaviour in the millennia before they disappeared.
After her arrival at UCB Celltech, she found a way to apply her research to work that the company was doing in humans.
In fact, biologist Vance Vredenburg at San Francisco State University likens chytrid's devastating arrival to the emergence of HIV in humanIn fact, biologist Vance Vredenburg at San Francisco State University likens chytrid's devastating arrival to the emergence of HIV in humanin humans.
There is a lot of indication that suspiciously points a finger to us; us being Homo sapiens, because their extinction seems to coincide with the arrival of human beings on land mass after landmass, and then after a while back, there is this question from it: «Well, if human beings wiped out all the animals on this landmass and, why do we still have big animals in Africa?»
They are roughly 175,000 years old, which means they easily predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe.
Professor Scott, added: «We have been able to show that wildfire was an important element in Earth System many hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of humans.»
The pattern of rapid human colonisation through the Americas, coinciding with contrasting temperature trends in each continent, allowed the researchers to disentangle the relative impact of human arrival and climate change.
Their die - off coincided with the arrival of the first humans on the islands in the late 13th century, and scientists have long wondered what role hunting by Homo sapiens played in the moas» decline.
Bats in Brazil exclusively feed on bird blood, but new arrivals in their territory are now on the menu — they have been caught feasting on human blood
But in Western Europe, I think it was a combination of the arrival of people with superior technology and climate change so the Neandertals were doubly unlucky, because at the time modern humans came into Europe, the climate of Europe was extremely unstable.
In the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolutioIn the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolutioin time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolution.
But prior to human arrival, the whales faced dramatic changes in its feeding grounds due to climate change.
Modern humans and Neanderthals therefore lived in roughly the same regions for thousands of years, but the new human arrivals, from the Neanderthal perspective, might not have been welcome, and for good reason.
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Given the very small number of reliable records of human fatalities from eating cane toads worldwide over many decades, it would be awful indeed if two people in East Timor died within the first few years after toad arrival.
This study uses ancient DNA as a window on a crucial period of human evolution the arrival of farming in Europe around 8,500 years ago.
«Our findings suggest that recent human adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of single changes of large effect, but through shifts of frequency in many places of the genome,» said Molly Przeworski, PhD, professor of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the phuman adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of single changes of large effect, but through shifts of frequency in many places of the genome,» said Molly Przeworski, PhD, professor of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the pHuman Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the paper.
The rise in the prevalence of all of these conditions parallels the arrival of modern and processed foods, such as refined carbohydrate, in the human diet.
180 vessels with 470,000 passengers — 19 more arrivals with 53,500 additional visitors compared to 2017 Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a
Where Denis Villeneuve's 2016 sci - fi thriller «Arrival» succeeded in capturing our often - skewed perception of time, raw grief, the existence of a higher power and the expansive depths of the universe, Garland's («Ex Machina») equally heady Annihilation compresses human emotion into lichen and mutating cells.
In pondering the limits of humans» knowledge, and their fallibility, «Annhilation» also shares some DNA with 2016's «Arrival.»
In confronting an extraterrestrial presence through the gaze of a human female, emphasizing her intelligence and composure while sneakily teasing out her emotional history, «Annihilation» at times suggests a more ferocious companion piece to Denis Villeneuve's 2016 thriller, «Arrival.»
The plot involves the clash of early, simple hunters and gatherers with the arrival of more advanced bipeds in the form of those humans who have advanced firmly into the Bronze Age.
That matter happens to be the arrival of a massive glowing sphere in Central Park, accompanied by a towering robot - like protector dubbed Gort and an alien ambassador named Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who takes up human form to communicate with the people of Earth.
Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test — charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence.
Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test - charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence.
His efforts to convince her to stay in the hotel are complicated by the arrival of a human, a backpacker named Jonathan (Andy Samberg) who instantly develops a mutual attraction with Mavis.
If the early moments of the film evoke memories of similarly cerebral sci - fi Arrival, as soon as they're inside Area X, Garland starts to bring in other genres and influences — mutated beasts roam the swamps, twisted human remains hide in the shadows and the squad members» trust for each other is stretched to its limits.
The unconscionable exclusion of Amy Adams for her work in the impossibly human drama Arrival (about aliens) has managed to annoy everyone.
Some of the objectives are repeated in each mission whereas others are unique and revolve around uncovering the planet's history prior to human arrival.
He wants to strike the same deal with the new arrivals, but their involvement in human trafficking troubles him, especially when a captive (Elisa Lasowski) stirs his dormant conscience, and an old colleague (Stephen Graham) suddenly reemerges as part of the team.
In «Arrival» she plays Dr. Louise Banks, a brilliant, brave, and androgynous linguist whose empathetic and intuitive ability to parse the complex language of sophisticated alien visitors could save the human race from extinction; along the way, she bonds with her fellow scientist, played by Jeremy Renner.