Sentences with phrase «human past»

So understanding how they and their extinct relatives diversified could open a window on how language itself emerged among small social groups in the distant human past.
Through these, the whole human past and even the whole cosmic past play some role.
The distinctive character of human life that grounds this coincidence further implies a coincidence between maximizing human opportunities as such and maximizing the order of creativity in the relevant human past.
And this past is a highly selected segment of the total human past, a different segment for different peoples.
However, human milk may be the optimal food for infants and toddlers, but it is NOT the optimal food for humans past the early stages of life.
That is to say, the series of actual occasions that defined the person of Jesus were marked by prehensions of the deity according to the same mode that marked his prehensions of his own human past.
It's odd how people see the future as getting better, yet all we're doing is regressing to a barbaric human past.
During the nineteenth century, the emphasis on the biblical languages waned, but the humanistic approach to the broader human past flourished.
Old smuggler's beaches make good kayak landings and the fascinating human past is revealed by Native American pictographs and historical mining operations.
In the 1960s, a group of Italian artists known as the Arte Povera movement rejected the industrial achievements of Italy's postwar «miracle», choosing instead to make art that was rooted in nature and the fragile human past — casting tree trunks, building igloos.
Not so with Belloc, who was far from alone among historians of his generation who understood the significance of race and blood in the episodes of the human past and how important these factors were in the creation of societies and civilizations.
Or does this only apply to humans the past 2013 years and not the 200,000 years prior?
Its suffering at the hands of the all - too - human past and present will eternally recur.
In all these ways it expressed a modern liberal ideal that contrasted with the hierarchical domination and exclusiveness of most of the human past.
History deals with empirical facts of the human past that are accessible to any rational person who uses historical method.
In the broadest sense it includes everything we know, or think we know, about the human past, whether based on faith, on vague general impressions, or on methodical investigation.
In a narrower sense, history is knowledge derived by means of a recognized method devised to provide reliable access to the human past.
Very clear to anybody who studies our human past, has traveled outside the US and cares about all humans.
He meant to say that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other and the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow and change.
The great revolutions and revelations of the human past, and I include the Christian revelation, have all been great retellings, new ways of narrating ancient truths to encompass a larger world.
And many endearing figures in our human past and present have been able to «adjust» to the world by «giving up» or «working through» their childhood longing for significance in the eyes of another.
As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into the human past than any other existing ceremony....
«The unexpected results about Oceanian history highlight the power of ancient DNA to overthrow established models of the human past,» says Johannes Krause, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena.
«Along with archaeology and nomadic forager research, this [study] shoots holes in the view that the human past and human nature are shockingly violent,» Fry says.
As a discipline, Anthropology attempts to understand the human past, present, and future using tools and techniques from the sub-fields of sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology.
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

Penguin Random House

David Reich, HMS professor of genetics, tells...

This involves discoveries about the human past and the origins of homo sapiens.
«It seems to be a race among major teams looking for a better picture, a clearer snapshot of our human past in history and prehistory,» she said.
Programmed to be the ultimate law enforcer, RoboCop's not supposed to remember his human past - but memories of life, love and family are flooding in, blurring the line between man and machine, even as RoboCop sweeps the streets of «scum.»
Helga's Diary is an important book because it protects the truth of our human past, and truth has often been in danger.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years - a past that has mostly vanished - and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
Belize's archaeological treasures are generously sprinkled around the country, and include some world - class sites with international importance both for their beauty, but also the information they contain about our human past.
«William Calvin uses an adventure across today's earth to draw laser - sharp insights about our human past, and possibly its future.
History Teachers have a major part in introducing the subject of the human past to pupils.
He developed a distinctive pragmatic philosophy that carries with it an individualist understanding of the human past and a hopeful glance at the human future.
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