Sentences with phrase «human fossil remains»
So the world of paleoanthropology, the search for human fossil remains — it is like harder than ever right now.
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As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.
Palaeontologists have searched for fossil remains, and geneticists have rummaged through the historical documents that are human and chimp DNA.
The remains, alongside a digital reconstruction of a damaged fossil from a key early - human species, point to an evolutionary explosion at the dawn of our genus, Homo.
More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.
Whether the human origins research community will accept fossil footprints as conclusive evidence of the presence of hominins in the Miocene of Crete remains to be seen,» says Per Ahlberg.
Judging from fossil remains, scientists say the Boskops were similar to modern humans but had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads that held brains about 30 percent larger than our own.
Still, many human fossils from around 10,000 years ago or more remain.
East African fossils are famous, but new work on Australopithecus sediba suggests that the earliest human remains may lie in an area near Johannesburg
«Of the carbon dioxide human beings put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation,» Berry says, «roughly a third remains in the atmosphere, a third goes into terrestrial ecosystems, and a third goes into the ocean.»
While some environmental leaders now cautiously support development of more nuclear reactors (which are free of fossil fuels) to help stave off climate change, others remain concerned that the risks to human health and the environment are still too high to go down that road.
Trinkaus gained the clues to the Levantines» lifestyle from an unlikely combination of fossil evidence recovered by Israeli archaeologists; first, remains of the thigh bone (femur) and, secondly, remains of rodents that shared the caves with the two human populations, presumably nibbling their refuse.
The history of early human fossil finds is a long and messy one, and as the new Homo naledi find shows, it remains a work in progress.
The discovery was disproved in 1953, when advances in fossil analysis showed definitively that the bones were less than 1000 years old, comprised of human and orangutan remains, and had been artificially stained and filed to imitate aging.
Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.
The animal fossil remains bore signs of modification by human hands, stone hammers, and anvils.
Owing to the scarcity of human fossils from this period, these ancestors of all present - day non-African modern populations remain largely enigmatic.
However, because of the nature of the chamber sediments and the lack of other animal remains at the site, the researchers have not yet been able to nail down the exact age of these fossils, without which «there's no way we can judge the evolutionary significance of this find,» Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the discovery, told the Associated Press.
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.
The remaining 39 billion tons of annual human - made CO2 emissions come from other activities like burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles and producing concrete.
How humans outpaced their relatives remains a mystery, but fossil evidence has left some clues about the scenarios that may have led to the downfall of Neanderthals.
Without the fossil evidence, however, the LCA of chimps and humans will have to remain a dot on a clade and a phantom face on a computer screen.
To great accompanying media interest and even questions in the Houses of Parliament, the authors described their investigations into the important fossil human remains of «Eoanthropus dawsoni» (The Dawn Man of Dawson), found at Piltdown in Sussex.
The fossil remains of early humans that dated back to the neolithic period showed signs of osteoporosis, arthritis, dental caries etc..
The limestone caves, once a marshy wetland supporting a huge diversity of plant life and animals, have expelled an impressive quantity of ancient mammal remains and fossil evidence of an early human - like primate ancestor.
Visit Tanzania where two million year old fossils suggest it was home to the world's first humans; wander among Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills to discover rock paintings illustrating early religious beliefs, foraging traditions and human progress; and meet the Massai People of Kenya to understand the cultural heritage of one of Africa's remaining semi-nomadic tribes.
Animals, plants, minerals, fossils, and the remains of the world of objects produced by humans, are pieced together into a dystopian - looking universe that contains the whole memory of the world.
A great moment, reflecting the inevitability of diverse responses to climate risk on a variegated planet, came during a plenary panel focused on ways to satisfy fast - growing human energy needs while moving away from burning fossil fuels, which remain the world's dominant energy source.
But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.
Kingsnorth, who curiously shares his name with the site of the site of recent Climate Camp protests, recites a familiar litany — we are going to hell in a fossil - fuel - and - capitalism - powered handcart, and the human race is just to stupid to notice or care, and it will be a good thing when billions of us are dead, because those who remain will have learned a lesson.
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.
And I'm sure you will also agree that humans can not emit more CO2 from fossil fuel combustion than there is carbon in all the remaining fossil fuel resources on Earth.
You also ignored a key constraint on the amount of CO2 emitted by humans, i.e. the amount of carbon contained in all the remaining fossil fuels on Earth.
These are — and dramatic changes in the rate of growth of human population (the «generators» of the human emissions)-- an upper limit to the amount of carbon contained in all the fossil fuels remaining on our planet
It ignores two real physical constraints on human CO2 emissions (plus resulting warming) in the future: — changes in human population growth rates — total carbon contained in remaining fossil fuel reserves
This is higher than ANY of the IPCC projections and is the level expected by combusting all the remaining fossil fuels on our planet, so it is «virtually certain» (in IPCC terminology) that this level will NOT be reached from human CO2 emissions by 2100.
While the above analysis yields good results for by tying past climate change to increases in human CO2 emissions, it should be cautioned that the suggested exponential time relation is not suitable for projecting the future over longer time periods, because of possible changes in human population growth rates and absolute limitations on carbon available in remaining fossil fuels.
Assuming that human CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by 2100 will exceed all the carbon contained in all the remaining fossil fuels on our planet is idiotic.
I have simply pointed out a) that your «extrapolation» of human - induced CO2 increase does not take into account expected future trends in human population growth, and b) that your 2100 level of 1000 ppm exceeds CO2 increase that would occur from consuming all the optimistically estimated fossil fuel resources remaining on our planet.
Attributing allegedly unnatural warming to the use of fossil fuels to obtain energy essential for human flourishing, these voices demand that people surrender their God - given dominium, even if doing so means remaining in or returning to poverty.
And mandating that the life - saving, life - transforming power of fossil fuels remain buried in the ground is a prescription for early death, privation, and suffering for billions of our fellow human beings.
About 12,900 years ago, these megafauna disappeared from the fossil record, as did evidence of human remains.
The emissions are known (calculated from fossil fuel sales) The increase in the atmosphere is measured I never said or assumed that 50 % of the human CO2 remains active.
Nevertheless, humans would still have to demonstrate ingenuity and determination in exploiting even that reduced amount of fossil fuels, while at the same time remaining oblivious to the climate consequences.
After atmospheric CO2 levels remained steady for thousands of years, natural sources suddenly began to emit more than the sinks absorb at the exact same time as humans began burning fossil fuels.
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.
And while theoretically an increase of a few hundred ppmv of CO2 (and smaller quantities of other trace GHGs) might «exert a steady, constant upward forcing on temperature», this upward forcing is constrained by the amount of GHGs emitted by humans based on the C availability in the remaining fossil fuels.
Yet fossil fuels, especially coal, will remain a significant source of energy to meet human needs for the foreseeable future.
As climate alarmists rend their garments over fossil fuel emissions, a group of scientists has discovered that the world's plants have somehow increased their capacity to assimilate carbon, resulting in an actual decline in the percentage of human - produced CO2 remaining in the atmosphere.
But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.