Sentences with phrase «human evolution tells»

Knowing something about human evolution tells us that we, as a species, have not developed that far.

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«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.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

You tell us that this new phase of human evolution will bring about an extension and deepening of terrestrial consciousness.

But it's difficult to tell whether those numbers measure ignorance about science, because belief in human evolution is closely tied to religious belief, especially in the United States.

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition.

The dna molecule, Kean asserts, is the «grand narrative of human existence» — and he boldly sets out to tell the tale, not only explaining genetics and its scientific history but linking Mendel's pea shoots to the evolution of early humans.

Fuentes» recent books include «Evolution of Human Behavior,» «Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature,» «Conversations on Human Nature (s)» and the forthcoming «The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional.»

He performs a difficult balancing act with aplomb, telling the story of human evolution through an accurate and unsparing narrative of what scientists actually thought and did.

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.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

The analysis did not include humans, and the researchers are sceptical that these results tell us much about the evolution of human breeding systems.

Both of these apes may have something to tell us about the evolution of human behavior, yet most research has focused on chimps, in large part because bonobos are endangered — perhaps as few as 10,000 remain.

If it followed the same path, perhaps that tells us something profound about human cultural evolution.

The connection between group size and facial evolution tells us something about our own ancient history too, since human faces are about as plain as it gets.

But these fossils, scientists say, tell a different story about the onset of human evolution.

Evelyn is a soon - to - be third year PhD student at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins, interested in what growth and development of the mammalian dentition can tell us about human evoluHuman Origins, interested in what growth and development of the mammalian dentition can tell us about human evoluhuman evolution.

NEW YORK — The skull of a newly discovered 325 - million - year - old shark - like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates — including humans — than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.

«In human evolution the great achievement is the brain, in birds it is the feathers,» lead author Cheng - Ming Choung, a professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, told the BBC.

Call it the latest dietary fad, but keep in mind a great insight Robb Wolf told Joe Rogan on his podcast: keto was «likely the default human metabolic state» over the past 2.5 million years of human evolution.

One of my favorite stories to tell is the evolution of life, including the story of human evolution — connecting history and science.

NATURE's two - part special Dogs That Changed the World tells the epic story of the wolf's evolution, how «man's best friend» changed human society and how we in turn have radically transformed dogs.

Sika's wish is to tell beautiful stories that will contribute to the positive transformation and evolution of the human being and Cote d'Ivoire and Abidjan influence the language he uses to tell those stories.

Frans de Waal, editor, Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution (Harvard University Press 2001).

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107 Richard W. Wrangham, «Out of the Pan, into the fire: How our ancestors» evolution depended on what they ate,» in Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution, edited by Frans B. M. de Waal (Harvard University Press 2001), pp.1evolution depended on what they ate,» in Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution, edited by Frans B. M. de Waal (Harvard University Press 2001), pp.1Evolution, edited by Frans B. M. de Waal (Harvard University Press 2001), pp.121 - 143.

We humans tell stories and make arguments, and eventually the truest of them — whether it's a sun - centric solar system or a round earth or evolution or anthropogenic climate change — becomes the one we all tell.