Sentences with phrase «human cultures»

She is interested in ideas of interference and disruption of long - established systems in nature and human cultures.

The history and present of the Greater West are characterized by a series of collisions between humans and nature, as well as human cultures.

«This phenomenon has been present throughout human cultures for centuries.

Through this lens, Laramée explores the emergence, peak, and ultimate loss of human cultures.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History is dedicated to inspiring and educating the public about the natural world and human cultures.

Archaeology is the study of past human cultures, based on the material remains they left behind.

And pre-modern and early - modern human cultures...

Masculinity and virility are closely tied in many human cultures and passed on through the generations via cultural mythos, perceived gender roles, and media.

This does not mean that human food must never be shared with dogs, because food is love in most human cultures and most dogs see it that way, too.

Women have traditionally been midwives in virtually all human cultures, even those which frown on women being independent or having power of their own.

Fiction and nonfiction writers who have recently published a book that «contributes to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures» are eligible for this award, which offers $ 10,000 cash as well media and publicity opportunities.

An ethnographer is an anthropologist who studies specific human cultures.

Researchers have also stated that play is a primary mechanism of learning and socialization common to all human cultures, as well as a number of animal groups.

The science that studies human cultures is called anthropology.

There are human cultures today in which little or nothing else is eaten, and it appears that that was how our ancestors survived as well.

The Belt and Road region spans diverse geography and human cultures, but the countries face a spectrum of shared challenges, including environmental protection and a need for sustainable development.

These findings raise questions about the evolution of our own cultural behavior and the extent to which chimpanzee and human cultures rely on the same social and cognitive processes.

Anthropologists Clellan Ford and Frank Beach in their book Patterns of Sexual Behaviour suggested that 84 % of the 185 human cultures they had data on engaged in polygyny.

«If you look historically at human cultures, and even paternity studies from birth records and DNA, humans start to look a lot less monogamous than we like to think,» he points out.

Nunez calls on researchers to become more precise with their terms and suggests that it could be productive to investigate «what seems to be nearly universal in human cultures and in many nonhuman animals too: a «quantical» ability and not a numerical one.»

First, human cultures allow far more — and far more dramatic — exceptions to rules than one finds in other primates.

But the bitter truth, as Margaret Mead pointed out, is that many, many human cultures donÕt even recognize that women can enjoy sex, let alone climax the way men do.

A best - seller by former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade about recent human evolution and its potential effects on human cultures has drawn critical reviews since its spring publication.

Those songs also spanned a wide array of geographic areas designed to reflect a broad sampling of human cultures.

In all human cultures, it takes little effort for children to learn the language (s) spoken by those around them.

Clearly the hybrid children from these interbreedings had to have been accepted into human cultures.

But as the students would learn, studies of animals and human cultures suggest that geophagia is not necessarily abnormal — in fact, it may well be adaptive.

Children's tendency to imitate in this way likely represents a critical piece of the puzzle as to why human cultures differ so profoundly from those of great apes.»

Surprisingly, the human cultures on a potato diet produced the highest levels of SCFAs.

Those exposed to human cultures digesting a potato diet released the most PYY, followed by those exposed to baboon cultures on a potato diet.

What is fascinating about human cultures is that despite every opportunity for us to be swamped by the cultures around us, somehow the cultures are quite strong, as if deflecting the cultures around them.

A huge component of arctic research is biology — not the geographically isolated communities of life found in Antarctica, but a whole ecology, including human cultures.»

Most human cultures allow polygamy.

According to one recent view, for example, belief in a «big God» — an all - powerful, punitive deity who sits in moral judgement on our actions — has been instrumental in bringing about social and political complexity in human cultures.

All human cultures perform songs specifically for babies — so - called «infant - directed songs.»

«Yet the irrational thing that the kids did is part of the reason why human cultures have evolved so rapidly and so diversely.»

Ethnographic data from societies around the world confirm that mothers in traditional human cultures are in contact with their infants 24 hours a day, carrying them strapped to their bodies by day, sleeping beside them at night [5], and feeding at will.

But despite these dramatic changes in our lifestyles from primitive human cultures, our neocortex and midbrains have not changed much at all in 200,000 years.

It is universal in human cultures to give gifts.

The future of many of Earth's plants and animals — and hundreds of human cultures — will be determined within the next few decades.

Coffee: The World in Your Cup is an exhibit providing a broad overview of the powerful influence of coffee on environments, human cultures, and economies worldwide.

This theory is no more plausible or implausible than blind faith except there actually is a large body of evidence to support this theory across all human cultures and «mythologies» (See Zecharia Sitchin, Rael, G. Cope Schellhorn, many others).

The diversity of human cultures and personalities and the diversity of living species are all important for God.

One might observe in this connection that, as human cultures go, that of the ancient Semites was not particularly «repressive» of the sexual impulse; there were plenty of nonsacred prostitutes around, and the temples of Astarte did not have a monopoly in the brothel business.

But we do know that over time a bewildering plurality of human cultures has evolved, as the Tower of Babel myth symbolically describes.

We have seen that all human cultures are human creations, each of them being the collective creation of an ongoing ethnic group.

All human cultures are relative to time, place and experience.

The best we can do, in attempting to imagine the twenty - first century, is to assess the current trends in the fast - changing human cultures.

Thus understood, the search for «organic unity» would indeed be a retreat from the vision of a dialogue of the hopes implied in the whole range of human cultures and experiences.

You will find when and why it was all cooked up by humans, for human reasons, in human cultures, in known human contexts.