Sentences with phrase «human behaviour from»

This paint making toolkit played a crucial role in our understanding of the evolution of the human mind, and led to the repositioning of the birthplace of modern human behaviour from Europe to Africa.

Carol Ward at the University of Missouri in Columbia points out that there are too many differences between chimps and early hominins to draw firm conclusions about early human behaviour from chimp studies.

Although quite a bit of evidence was produced concerning the difference of human behaviour from animals, the nature of spirit, and the ensoulment of man (both in terms of the ensoulment of each individual human person, and also the initial ensoulment of the first fully human man) were unsatisfactorily addressed.

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Economics is supposed to provide mathematical modelling of human behaviour, but the apparent divergence of economic theory from reality in recent years has become a burr under Orrell's saddle.

«Their caution is a learned behaviour from (quite rightly) protecting themselves during the onslaught of the global financial crisis, which rapidly destroyed human and physical capital,» he added.

I am not arguing that these alternative instruments will be successful in countering asset price bubbles and credit imbalances, because I think bubbles are a permanent feature of the landscape resulting from entrenched human behaviour.

There are too many variables that result from human beings» behaviour to forecast future economic performance with any accuracy.

I see Orthodox Christians living in dirt poor conditions who to their deaths from ISIS with an attitude that transcends the worst of human behaviour.

According to Robin Goodfellow (Puck), Shakespeare's fairy narrator, human behaviour appears foolish from the outside looking in.

For me this phrase just means that we should value, respect, cherish and love each human inherently because they are fellow human beings regardless of any labels we wish to put on them and that it is helpful and constructive to distinguish people's «mark - missing» behaviour from their inherent value as a human being i.e. «I think what Donald Trump said about banning all Muslims from the United States of America is stupid» and NOT «Donald Trump is stupid».

Of course this still leaves the question of what to do with disappointing human behaviour — the «abuse, «war and addictions... [and that] innocents suffer from the sins of others» as you have put it.

It does not evaluate functional outcomes that depend on other bioactive factors in human milk, or behaviours and practices that are inseparable from breastfeeding, nor does it consider consequences for mothers.

The «resource turn» in egalitarian political philosophy, and the prioritisation within practical welfarism of resource redistribution by the nation - state, implicitly buy into the same impoverished view of human motivation — they abandon positions from which they could criticise the neoliberal perception of human behaviour, and serve to perpetuate its dominance rather than providing alternatives to undermine it.

This differs from either positive or pessimistic accounts in that rather than subscribing humans to one predominant characteristic (good or bad), it stresses the pivotal role of emotional and contextual factors which shape human behaviour and morality.

Traditionally, IR scholars tend to see behaviours and everything else under the umbrella of «human nature» as disassociated from neurochemistry.

Freakonomics: the first book to look at the combination of markets, economics and human behaviour in particular activities, from drug dealing, to the flaws of rewarding teachers on pupils» performance.

Their research covers the full span of human behaviour, from economics to education, sociology, geography, linguistics and social anthropology, psychology to social work and even business and management studies.

From apartheid to financial markets, trying to capture messy human behaviour using techniques from science can derail us all, says Emanuel DeFrom apartheid to financial markets, trying to capture messy human behaviour using techniques from science can derail us all, says Emanuel Defrom science can derail us all, says Emanuel Derman

«In the era of digitisation, exchanging goods for material and immaterial compensation or for a feeling of sheer altruism remains an important human behaviour,» the team says, «But rather than tightening enforcement to protect their assets content providers would benefit more by initiating communication with the illegal downloaders and profiting from global online networking rather than fighting it.»

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

The authors suggest that the observed laws might describe a variety of dynamic phenomena from the motion of synthetic active particles to animal flocks and herds, human crowd or opinion dynamics and help to formulate the general laws of collective behaviour.

Instead of making unrealistically simplistic assumptions about human behaviour and the properties of markets, we can harness the number - crunching power of modern computing, coupled with our emerging understanding of the physics of complex systems, to rebuild economic theory from the bottom up.

But the stunning success of the high - function toilet holds lessons for anyone — from public health officials to marketing experts — whose work involves understanding and changing human behaviour and decision making.

Likewise, certain aspects of group structure and social behaviour distinguish humans from other primates and almost certainly emerged through major evolutionary events, yet there has been no consensus on how to detect aspects of group behaviour in the fossil or archaeological records.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

«This is one of the few studies to explore how pollution from human activity impacts schooling behaviour in fish.

The test, devised in 1950 by pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, assesses a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from that of a human.

Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors — things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another — are incredibly difficult to deduce from these traditional forms of paleoanthropological data.

However, interpreting the data collected from volunteers» own smart phones — which has the potential to emulate randomised trials — can advance research into human behaviour.

From the famed Dodo, through the lesser known Guam Flycatcher, to the near - extinct Albatross, the exhibition combines beauty with more hard - hitting images that really bring home the devastation wrecked on these fragile creatures, often as a direct result of human behaviour.

Our closest primate relatives may have evolved «us versus them» social traits as a means to cope with competition from rival groups of monkeys long before this behaviour first occurred in humans, new research suggests.

When discussing childhood development and its impact on human behaviour, Alison Gopnik twice makes an assertion that has become a commonplace: «We share almost all of our genes with our closest primate relatives, so where does our distinctively human intelligence come from?»

Johnson's conclusion: «We ordinary human beings are not so rational; we are no different from all earlier cultures in that we have to put ourselves in the story, and to attribute this or that individual weather event to our own behaviour or moral failures.»

Bring up a chimpanzee from birth as if it were a human and it will learn many unsimian behaviours, like wearing clothes and even eating with a knife and fork.

If, as many researchers believe, early modern humans replaced the Neanderthals in Western Asia and Europe between 45 000 and 30 000 years ago, rather than evolved from them, the Levantine early moderns should show signs of «human» social and cultural behaviour distinct from that of the Neanderthals.

Alan Turing provided a means of assessing whether a machine's behaviour was equivalent or indistinguishable from that of a human.

The impressive record of bipedal tracks from Laetoli Locality 8 (Site G and the new Site S) may open a window on the behaviour of a group of remote human ancestors, envisaging a scenario in which at least five individuals (G1, G2, G3, S1 and S2) were walking in the same time frame, in the same direction and at a similar moderate speed.

«It's a bit of a departure from the way we've typically studied personality in the past,» says Connelly, who is an expert on organizational behaviour and human resources.

The scientists who make up The Society have made many key discoveries, ranging from how our nervous system works, how our cells divide to the way in which reflexes alter human behaviour.

The delicate balance between the human microbiome and the development of psychopathologies is particularly interesting given the ease with which the microbiome can be altered by external factors, such as diet, 23 exposure to antimicrobials24, 25 or disrupted sleep patterns.26 For example, a link between antibiotic exposure and altered brain function is well evidenced by the psychiatric side - effects of antibiotics, which range from anxiety and panic to major depression, psychosis and delirium.1 A recent large population study reported that treatment with a single antibiotic course was associated with an increased risk for depression and anxiety, rising with multiple exposures.27 Bercik et al. 28 showed that oral administration of non-absorbable antimicrobials transiently altered the composition of the gut microbiota in adult mice and increased exploratory behaviour and hippocampal expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), while intraperitoneal administration had no effect on behaviour.

Richards said: «It's important to remember that the software still needs to learn these behaviours from a human team.

Built from the ground up to take advantage of Xbox One and the vast power of the cloud, «Forza Motorsport 5» features revolutionary Drivatar technology that learns how you and your friends drive, delivering real human behaviour and an ever - evolving network of opponents always ready to race — even when they're not online.

A footnote to the film reveals the extent to which the specifics of what happened in Boston were and of course still are replicated the world over, at which point Spotlight exists to shine a searchlight on a moment from history that human behaviour tragically refuses to leave consigned to the past.

Nevertheless, similarities can be drawn between this film and Amor idiota in particular; they are both tales about foolish human behaviour, Amor idiota being additionally narrated from a first - person perspective.

I also enjoyed the «Charlie Rose» excerpt where Ethan shrinks from paying Brolin a compliment because he's in the same room with him: it's the kind of recognizably human (if antisocial) behaviour that's usually pumiced away by the time a celebrity reaches the Oprah circuit.

Human emotions and behaviours are contagious and as such, students F immediately stand to gain from progress within the teacher population.

In this fascinating book, Thomas Suddendorf weaves research from animal behaviour, child development, anthropology, psychology and neuroscience into a definitive account of what separates humans from other animals.

That's something that will take the mystery away I think from the scariness of robots, make them see that this is just really a tool that people have been successfully programming to have human - like behaviour and that has been very useful in many aspects of life.»

In writing, our book characters will benefit from engaging in that very human behaviour, and make them easier to relate to.

The measures may range from legislative measures, to prohibit abuse and proscribe certain behaviour to administrative and judicial mechanisms to effectively investigate all complaints of human rights violations by companies (Background Paper 3).