Sentences with phrase «human origins at»

«It's the way forward,» Dr Silvia Gonzalez, an expert in human origins at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, told BBC News Online.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society and holds the title of research leader in human origins at the Natural History Museum in London.

Christopher Stringer, a paleoanthropologist and research leader on human origins at the Natural History Museum in London, replies:

Previous genetic comparisons of present - day humans with Neandertals and their close Stone Age relatives, the Denisovans, had placed human origins at 400,000 years ago or more.

An allegation against Richmond, the curator of human origins at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, inspired a cascade of other allegations about him and motivated several senior paleoanthropologists to do battle against sexual harassment in their field.

Lead author, Dr Penny Spikins, senior lecturer in the Archaeology of Human Origin at the University of York, said: «Our findings suggest Neanderthals didn't think in terms of whether others might repay their efforts, they just responded to their feelings about seeing their loved ones suffering.»

Not exact matches

According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about human origins.

Its easier to related to Muhammad than to Jesus or Buddha because he never claimed that he was of divine origin, he was as shocked at his revelation as anybody else, he frequently said many times «I'm a man amongst men,» he frequently said «all the good that happens comes from Allah and everything that is not good is my fault,» he's very human and that is what makes him relatable.

Therefore it is not affected by the profound wounding of human nature caused by the sin of Adam which happened at the origins of our species.

It has its own divine origin and its own natural place at the heart of the human community under the Unity Law of Control and Direction.

We may see the infancy of the human race, as the long period of man's origins when he was completely at the mercy of his environment.

At the present time, theologians using an evolutionary explanation of human creation and development refer to original sin as the origin of our sinful history.

As to His human origin, He was born in Bethlehem; as to His divine origin, He is from eternity, which means He is both God and man at the same time.

At the same time, google and other search engines have made it easy to understand that the origins of the worlds major religions are based in human power and control.

Of course, it is possible to reply that the alleged stumbling block occurs every day according to Christian teaching, because what here in the case of the first human being is felt to be contrary to the fundamental conceptions of metaphysics and the methodological basis of natural science, happens continually at the origin of every individual human soul, at the genesis of every single human being, for such souls equally with those of the first human beings, are created by God directly out of nothing.

When the prologue of the Fourth Gospels says «The Word became flesh» it means by «flesh» not the historical fact in the manger at Bethlehem but the acquisition of a new understanding of human life which has its origin in that point of history.

They reveal what the origins of bloodshed, and how sacrificial religion is often at the root of bloodshed, as human beings kills others in the name of God.

And the self - adopted identities of «Protestant» or «Reformed» or «Catholic» do little to elucidate these intentions, whose origins lie in deeper human recesses of the soul, and whose Christian ideological justifications were in any case inherited at least from the Middle Ages.

The author, and perhaps Jewish thought in general at that time, recognized the intimate relationship of the age - old speculation of the Orient to that of Greece; both had come to express in differing terms but in essential unity the conviction that human life is infused with a pervasive entity which is more than human, finding its ultimate origin and nature in the being of the universe.

This «original sin», i.e. sin at the origin of the human race, involves fundamental damage to the spirit - body relationship.

The ability to identify the origin of a canned beverage is a key requirement, which is why every canned item must be assigned a unique identifier in the form of a human and machine - readable code that is read and recorded at all stages of its progress throughout the supply chain.

Since our early origins as a species, human infants have used crying, to inform, to alert, at communicate, and to signal their needs.

Look at asylum seekers» countries of origin and they follow a predictable pattern: where there is war, brutal repression and large scale human rights abuses with impunity, people will inevitably flee.

Fifth graders at Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS) are studying the definition and origins of human rights this semester.

The origins of Europeans used to seem straightforward: The first modern humans moved into Europe 42,000 to 45,000 years ago, perhaps occasionally meeting the Neandertals whose ancestors had inhabited Europe for at least 400,000 years.

Brexit was on the mind of many, because it could severely hinder the ability of European scientists to work in the U.K. Francisco Diego, an astronomer at University College London, reminded the crowd that science has shown all humans trace their origins back to Africa.

Birmingham, U.K. — A provocative new theory about the origin of «mad cow disease» and its human counterpart stirred debate at the annual International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology here yesterday.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

At the Liberty Science Center's Communication exhibit, visitors can explore the origins of human language, as well as how the brain responds to a range of words and sounds and how we bond using different modes of self - expression.

«Conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies since has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools was linked to the emergence of the genus Homo, and this technological development was tied to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands,» says Dr. Lewis, a Research Assistant Professor at TBI.

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

We celebrate (or bemoan) the human species, get excited about the discovery of new species, obsess over the fate of endangered ones, and shout at one another about the book called On the Origin of Species.

Although some say it's hard to identify our species, Homo sapiens, by a single bone, the findings appear unimpeachable, says John Shea, an anthropologist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook who studies human origins, but wasn't involved in the study.

The origins of this dog - human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.

Conversely, the treatment of the ever - popular debate on the Origin of Modern Humans — that is, Out of Africa - versus - the Multiregional Model — is admirably balanced, with proponents Alan Thorne and Chris Stringer being interviewed at length.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

The cases leave public health authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere wondering if a new swine - origin flu virus is circulating at low levels among humans — and what needs to be done if that is indeed happening.

At the Natural History Museum in London, for example, Chris Stringer, an expert on modern human origins, continues to lean toward a terrestrial migration route out of Africa.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

They also agree, if with less unanimity, that the most common genetic variants found in contemporary human beings are ancient in origin — at least 50,000 years old.

When we look at the origin of the neck in Tiktaalik, the origin of the wrist inTiktaalik, we are talking about human history.

During a 1996 conference, Manuel Domínguez - Rodrigo, an archaeologist at the Complutense University of Madrid, invited Serrallonga to help him on a human - origins expedition in northern Tanzania.

After painstakingly piecing together the genome of the extinct strain, a team led by virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, then at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., concluded in 2005 that the virus most closely resembled viruses of avian origin; the team suggested it had become transmissible between humans after a couple of key changes (Science, 7 October 2005, p. 28).

While Serrallonga worked on his 5 - year degree in prehistory and archaeology at the University of Barcelona, he persuaded Sabater Pi, the primatologist whose albino gorilla was so important in piquing his interest in human origins, to let him work with him.

Dale Purves, a neuroscientist at Duke University, set out to understand if there was a biological origin to this tonal preference, and struck a chord in April when he reported (pdf) that the tones of the chromatic scale are dominated by the harmonic ratios found in the sound of the human voice.

Anthropologists and geneticists know that populations throughout the world migrated from Africa more than 60,000 years ago (see diagram), and that the human genome is at its most diverse in our continent of origin, but previous studies have only scratched the surface of African genetic diversity.

«There are several untested assumptions about the origin of Homo,» said Bernard Wood, University Professor of Human Origins at GW, who was not an author on the study.

To confirm that the phosphate was biological in origin, the German researchers added human faeces to a culture medium and then incubated the samples under anaerobic conditions at a temperature of 36 °C.

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.