Sentences with phrase «human evolution at»

Yes, it's human evolution at work!

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

• Evan Eichler works on genes and human evolution at the University of Washington in Seattle; Washington State University is 500 kilometres away in Pullman (24 March, p 34).

Fernando Ramirez Rozzi of the Laboratory of Human Evolution at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris is now trying dental forensics to solve the evolutionary enigma.

His colleague Tanya Smith, who studies human evolution at Harvard, knew just the tooth to test first.

Not exact matches

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

«This topic is important, since it will shed a light on the evolution of human cheating and punishment,» Liesbeth Sterck, a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the study, told LiveScience in an email.

So at which point in evolution, then, is a person «human», and bound for heaven, or merely a slug with no afterlife?

By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution at which humans are not really humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»

This was forced evolution of the human race, and now science looks at religious brains and states they are hardwired.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

With the evolution of life, at a certain stage, came the development of animals with a nervous system, and eventually human beings with a large brain.

So last night our own Peter Lawler debated leading Darwinian Conservative Larry Arnhart here at RIT over the explanatory power of Darwinian evolution to capture to the totality of human experience in general and American political experience in particular.

consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us humans because of the biological nature of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level of complexity

When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

To put it simply, the concept of gods bares no merit at this current stage in the evolution of the human species and it would be a betterment to the species to have the concept removed from accepted delusional realities so prevalent in todays society.

In fact our abilities to integrate is simply an example of evolution in progress, at a human level.

Humans are taller now that they were historically, that is part of evolution at work.

Not to metion we still have the «missing link» issue where at one point (based on evolution) the human brain advanced very quickly with very little time for evolution to take place.

Evolution, at least on the biological and the human levels, is neither rigidly predestined nor completely indeterminate.

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

The absence of strict determinism that recent physics has discovered at the most basic levels of matter, the chance mutations that biology finds at the level of life's evolution, and the freedom that comes forth with human existence — all of these are the expected features of any world we might claim to be distinct from the being of its creator.

Human evolution: from bond fires started by rubbing sticks to hydroelectric power plants - from gazing at the Moon to actually going there - Indeed we are evolving!!!

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

If you search the Coursera website on «evolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both startevolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both startEvolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both start in June.

Over the course of cultural evolution, due to an impotence at the heart of the will and to recurrent failures in ever - renewed struggles for ascendency, human will to power lost its good cheer and creatively turned against itself.

Oh, next time I go to the zoo, I'll say HI to some of your relatives that didn't evolve Mr. Catholic Christian believing in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.

*** Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.The few parts of the Bible and other holy books that are actually accurate, are more metaphorical to me than literal.

Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.

In Man evolution is interiorized and made purposeful; and at the same time, in the degree in which the strivings of human inventiveness need to be controlled in their operation and sustained in their energies, it imposes upon itself a moral order and «mysticizes» itself.

This postulate of invariability seems at first sight to be admissible in the «Darwinian» zones of Life, where the instinct of self - preservation predominates (this seeming by its nature to be more or less constant among organized beings), but it certainly loses all value in the «Lamarckian» or human zone, where biological evolution, from being passive, becomes active in the pursuit of its purpose.

But it is just this supposedly impenetrable envelope of pure «phenomenon» which the rebounding thrust of human evolution pierces, at least at one point, since by its nature it is irreversible.

To get a proper and adequate understanding of human freedom, one has to see man in the total context of evolution, for freedom did not start with man; it had its evolutionary roots at the infrahuman level.

It is through human consciousness, genetically linked to a heavenly body whose days are ultimately numbered, that Evolution proclaims its challenge: either it must be irreversible, or it need not go on at all!

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

In the synthesis of philosophy and science presented by Faith, the evolution of the human brain at a critical juncture, the first homo sapiens, requires an external principle of control, one not determined by material forces, but controlling and directing them.

Certainly consciousness does not exist at the level of atoms and electrons, nor does reflective self - awareness seem to appear in evolution until the human species comes onto the scene.

At the summit of material animal evolution is a proto - human, but the next stage of complexity in brain function would be out of kilter with the natural environment since it is now too powerful to be subject to the ULCD from the material environment alone.

What, then, is the principle is at work in human nature that sets us apart from the entire heritage of material evolution?

Just to clarify at the outset that for us, human death comes from sin, not animal death, which is one inherent aspect of evolution.

The frst human is THE point in material evolution at which the infusion of the soul becomes necessary and suitable, precisely the principle required for Man to exist in harmony with the material environment.

Evolution's goal is an organ at the very limit of the complexity which matter can achieve: the human brain.

Professor Metcalf testified at the real trial, «It is impossible for a normal human being, cognizant of the facts, to have the slightest doubt about the fact of evolution,» and the fictional Drummond argues, «What Bertram Cates spoke quietly one spring afternoon in the Hillsboro High School is... incontrovertible as geometry in every enlightened community of minds.»

of God and man, the keystone of the cosmic arch, the culmination at once of emergent evolution working «upwards» and of the divine self - impartation working «downwards,» at once the summit of human achievement and the supreme gift of love whereby God gives «his very self and essence all divine.»

But in an emergent, hierarchical universe faith is the kind of knowing whereby we at the human level of evolution leave ourselves open to being grasped by a more encompassing field of influence.13 In the cosmic hierarchy the lower can not comprehend the higher.

Albert Einstein: Human Fantasy Created Gods During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal wHuman Fantasy Created Gods During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal whuman fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman PalestinAt its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestinat some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

The human species, the only one with a spiritual soul, is, as fulfilled by the Incarnation, the purpose of creation in our theology, The breakdown of the individual physical thing is part of the dynamic of evolution across time as it aims at its goal.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.