Sentences with phrase «human fossil ever»

A large international research team, led by Israel Hershkovitz from Tel Aviv University and including Rolf Quam from Binghamton University, State University of New York, has discovered the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa.

A further interesting and little publicized fact: scientific analysis of some of the oldest human fossils ever found on the planet has shown that breast milk was the principal form of food for the first three to four years of life [vi].

The bones account for most of the human fossils ever discovered from the Middle Pleistocene, the period 120,000 to 780,000 years ago during which modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans split into distinct lineages.

Not exact matches

Unexpected fossil finds keep showing us an ever - expanding variety of human and prehuman species.

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.

Ever since spelunkers found a robust jawbone in a cave in Romania in 2002, some paleoanthropologists have thought that its huge wisdom teeth and other features resembled those of Neandertals even though the fossil was a modern human.

A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

So the world of paleoanthropology, the search for human fossil remains — it is like harder than ever right now.

The skull is the only representative of the westernmost human fossil to be ever discovered in Europe.

Tattersall said, «Paleoanthropologists are having a hard time letting go of the old idea that human evolution was a linear process, but fossils like this one from Dmanisi are making it ever clearer that hominid history has been one of diversity and evolutionary experimentation with the hominid potential.»

They report the discovery of a second chamber within Rising Star with abundant H. naledi fossils, including one of the most complete skeletons of an early human ever found, as well as the remains of at least one child and another adult.

Michael Mann added that «Donald Trump and his campaign still firmly reject the scientific evidence that climate change is human - caused, opposing the only action (a reduction of fossil fuel burning) that can save us from ever - more dangerous climate change impacts,» according to EcoWatch.

What is needed, more than ever before, is administrative leadership that goes to instruct societies of humans to depend much less on fossil - fuels, and make way for renewable energy alternatives.

Researchers are confident that they understand the cycle of Ice Ages, and they also have a clear idea that the biosphere plays a hand in keeping the planet at liveable temperatures, but they also know that the high altitudes are more than usually affected by climate change driven by ever - higher ratios of greenhouse gases released by the combustion of fossil fuels by seven billion humans.

They looked at the potential long - term consequences of oceans ever richer in dissolved carbon dioxide, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases that continue to warm the atmosphere.

In two papers in the journal Earth Interactions, researchers have taken a closer look at the reality of this historic divide and the changing nature of the U.S. landscape as a consequence of climate change driven by ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in response to ever - more profligate human use of fossil fuels.

And, if we accept the WEC 2010 estimate of the inferred total amount of remaining fossil fuels on our planet, the maximum possible human - caused CO2 concentration that could ever be asymptotically reached is around 1020 ppmv.

With the new ECS estimate, the absolute maximum AGW impact we could ever theoretically see from human CO2 is around 2.4 C warming above today, when all fossil fuels are 100 % used up.

«I hope this report will stress the virtual certainty among the scientific community that humans are affecting the climate system in profound ways, mainly through burning ever - increasing amounts of fossil fuels,» said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

«Alex Epstein's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels documents the rapidly shrinking number of human beings killed by storms, floods and other climate events thanks largely to ever - growing industry, fueled mainly by oil, natural gas and coal,» says Stossel.

To be clear, Donald Trump and his campaign still firmly rejects the scientific evidence that climate change is human - caused, opposing the only action (a reduction of fossil fuel burning) that can save us from ever - more dangerous climate change impacts.

Over the same time period, humans have consumed roughly 15 % of ALL the fossil fuel resources that WERE EVER on our planet (based on WEC estimates of inferred possible total fossil fuel resources today and CDIAC estimates of fossil fuel use to date).

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

as humans burn fossil fuels and dump ever greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

They found that, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels to release ever higher levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to stoke yet further global warming and trigger catastrophic climate change, all 571 cities will experience ever greater heatwaves: that is, three consecutive days and nights at which temperatures are about as high as they have ever been for that city.

This is roughly the rise predicted by climate change scenarios in which humans go on burning fossil fuels, to deposit ever more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

An upper limit that could ever be reached (assuming the increase is caused by human emissions) would seem to be based on the total amount of fossil fuels remaining on our planet.

The permafrost is a vast reservoir of ancient carbon, protected from decay by microorganisms simply by its frozen state: it becomes increasingly vulnerable as the world warms, as humans burn fossil fuels and dump ever greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The implication is that even though other teams have repeatedly warned that the world's reefs are in peril as the world warms because of ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a consequence of human combustion of fossil fuels at a profligate rate, the world's great reefs may survive for perhaps another century, rather than perish within the next 50 years.

LONDON, 2 March, 2016 — Heatwaves that used to arrive once every 20 years or so could become annual events by 2075 across almost two - thirds of the planet's land surface — if humans go on burning ever more fossil fuels and releasing ever more greenhouse gases.

And researchers − including Noah Diffenbaugh, associate professor of earth system science at Stanford University, who is one of the co-authors of the new study − have linked the drought to global climate change resulting from the release of greenhouse gases worldwide as human economies burn ever more fossil fuel.

The volumes of sulphate aerosols that would need to be flown to stratospheric heights and released each year would continue to grow as humans went on burning ever more fossil fuels.

Although global warming is driven by human behaviour — and in particular the prodigal burning of fossil fuels at an ever - accelerating rate to dump ever - greater quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — it is also influenced by natural climate rhythms.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

One group warns that, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever increasing rate, heatwave temperatures could reach an intolerable 55 °C in many parts of the globe, including some parts of continental Europe.

«an ever - lighter footprint than the material it replaces across key environmental and social impact areas such as fossil resource use, human rights and climate change.»

Under the notorious business - as - usual scenario, in which humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever - increasing rate, and releasing ever more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, then the dunes of North Africa's Sahara will march northwards and southern Spain will become a desert.

Other scientists had already established that if global temperatures rise by 4 °C this century − in the notorious business - as - usual scenario in which humans go on burning fossil fuels and depositing ever more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere − then some parts of the globe could become intolerably hot for at least part of the day, and potentially uninhabitable.

In a world rapidly warming as humans burn ever more fossil fuels, to add ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, researchers expect to observe an increase in the volume of meltwater on the south polar surface.

LONDON, 27 April, 2017 — If humans go on burning ever greater volumes of fossil fuel, then dramatic rises in sea levels could turn 13 million US citizens into climate refugees and send them fleeing inland — many of them to Atlanta, Houston and Phoenix.